(By our correspondents Zhang Rui, Zhang Yuqian, and Dai Mingai)On the afternoon of July 2, the School of Foreign Languages held a reading report seminar at the Liberal Arts Building for the 2025-level postgraduates in Foreign Languages and Literatures. The seminar was divided into three groups: English literature, linguistics, and Japanese literature. The English literature group had Hu Yaling, Chen Heng, Wang Li, and Dong Qiong as its expert advisors; the linguistics group had Chen Mingfang, Chen Bin, Cheng Jianshan, He Guanghui, Tu Chaolian, Wang Wanhua, and Wang Wei as its expert advisors; and the Japanese literature group had Shen Sihan and Liu Weiying as its expert advisors.
During the presentation session, the seven students in the English literature group presented reports on writing about aging, sites of memory, feminism, mediated writing, spatial predicaments, refugee identity, and interpreting ethics, respectively. The seven students in the linguistics group presented reports on topics including student feedback literacy, Appraisal Theory, Conservation of Resources Theory, multidimensional task analysis, identity theory, and ecolinguistics. The two students in the Japanese literature group presented on unreliable narration and humanistic geography, respectively.
After the presentations, the judges offered comments on the students' reports from different aspects such as structure and content. They recognized the students’ learning achievements up to now while pointing out existing problems in their research, such as insufficient integration between theories and texts, inadequate in‑depth analysis, and imprecise wording . They also put forward suggestions for the students to strengthen theoretical study, further explore the essence behind phenomena, and pay attention to expressions.
This reading report seminar showcased the students’ phased learning outcomes in the semester and provided a valuable opportunity for academic exchange. The school will continue to organize reading report seminars and other academic activities to boost postgraduate talent cultivation and academic communication.

