University of North Texas 
Visiting Scholars
Abrar Hussain Qureshi, PhD
Dr.Qureshi is a Fulbrigth postdoc fellow in the Linguistics department University
of North Texas USA. He has been working in the field of Urdu and English linguistics
and got exposure of Corpus Based Urdu English lexicology as a PhD research Associate
in 2007 and as a postdoctoral researcher on Corpus Based Urdu English bilingual lexicography
in 2019 from Center for Advance Research in English (CARE) university of Birmingham
United Kingdom. He is an ELT certified professional from University of Oregon USA
(2022) and Associate Fellow (AFHEA) 2022 by Advance Higher Education United Kingdom.
He is currently working on Pakistani English corpus as a research tool. The proposed corpus is supposed to be annotated to make it more potential for research purposes at advance level. His research interests are lexicology, lexicography, English as a foreign language, applied and corpus linguistics.
He is currently working on Pakistani English corpus as a research tool. The proposed corpus is supposed to be annotated to make it more potential for research purposes at advance level. His research interests are lexicology, lexicography, English as a foreign language, applied and corpus linguistics.
Anna Zanina, PhD
Lecturer at the Center for Languages and Transcultural Communication
University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
Dr. Zanina's current work aims to address the following questions: What kind of influence does the increasingly large proportion of machine-generated texts have on our language use? Which existing tendencies are strengthened or inhibited by the fact that the machine translation program prefers a specific certain pattern of a linguistic action? She is investigating whether machine translation reinforces the existing principle of economy of language and measuring textual complexity using multiword expressions (MWE), in particular collocations that appear in the form of noun phrases.
Marjing Mayanglambam
Marjing Mayanglambam is a musician from Manipur. He started learning the Pena from
an early age from his father Mangangsana. Being raised up in an artistic family surrounded
by artistes of Manipur and beyond, Marjing easily got to establish his musical career.
He is a Pena balladeer as well as an archivist of Laihui Ensemble and holds a bachelor's
degree in Anthropology. He has performed in various states of India and abroad, such
as Japan, Myanmar, Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates. He demonstrated Pena at
the “Cultural Exchange and Collaboration of Okinawan-Manipuri Music” 2019 sponsored
by Sasakawa Peace Foundation and Laihui Ensemble, held in Okinawa Prefecture Japan.
Also, he had a demonstration of Pena at the “International Workshop on Digital Archiving”
jointly organized by IGNCA, CoRSAL - University of North Texas & Imasi Foundation
held in New Delhi in 2019. He has composed several pieces of Pena music and called the album ‘Marjing's Pena'
Presently, he is working actively with CoRSAL, UNT as a Visiting Scholar archiving
works of Manipuri/Meiteilon literature and Pena music.
Prafulla Basumatary
Prafulla Basumatary is a linguist whose work is focused on multi-lingual education
related to Boro medium education in Assam (India). He has been working closely with
community organizations, universities and international organizations since 2009 and
trying to bring change in the teaching-learning methodologies through intervention
and good practices based on MTB-MLE principles. In addition, he has also collected
a large amount of Boro language samples for corpus creation and archived them with
CoRSAL, CQPweb and PARADISEC. He has written a book on verbal semantics in a Tibeto-Burman
language and published a journal articles and in conference proceedings. Currently
he is a visiting scholar at the University of North Texas Linguistics Department Computational
Resource for South Asian Languages lab (CoRSAL) working on creating annotated texts
for Boro for the analysis of Differential Marking.
Minzi Li
National Key Research Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
My research interests are in language testing and assessment, and applied linguistics more generally. I am particularly interested in second language reading and listening, and diagnosis in second /foreign language assessment. In recent research, I have focused on topics: testing listening (e.g., integrated listening, cognitive factors), testing Language-in-use (e.g. reading construct), self-assessment (e.g., develop and validate self-assessment tools), rating (e.g. scales, rating approaches) and language standards (e.g., CSE-China standards of English, CEFR).
Songshan Zhang
National Key Research Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
My research foci reside in second language vocabulary acquisition and assessment, reading and listening, individual differences, and meta-analysis. My publications appeared in System, ELT Journal, and Canadian Modern Language Review.
Huani Zhuang
Foshan University
My interests focus on business English and teaching business English to EFL students. My research explores aspects such as jargons and lingoes of business English, the presentation of linguistic devices in business English, etc. For instance, I have conducted a research on animal metaphors commonly used in business English. With regard to business English pedagogy research, I am particularly interested in business English teaching and learning strategies, as well as business English vocabulary acquisition. Examples of my research in this area include usage of portfolios as a teaching and learning method in business English, and how to help cultivate students' English presentation skills in business English class.