National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaGeneral Program GrantOn August 26, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) released the Announcement on the Review Results of the 2026 Centralized Receipt and Review of NSFC Applications. Professor Ni Qins project, titled Research on Social Cognitive Intelligence Evaluation of Educational Large Language Models Based on Theory of Mind, has been awarded a General Program grant.Professor Ni Qin has long been committed to research in natura

David Machin: Top 2% Global Scientists by 2025 + Elsevier 2023 2024Highly Cited Chinese ResearcherProfessor David Machin is a world-leading scholar with expertise in the fields of Critical Discourse Analysis and Multimodality. In early 2022, he joined the Institute of Language Sciences at Shanghai International Studies University, where he has been producing high-level research with his colleagues and students.David Machin: Top 2% Global Scientists by 2025 + Elsevier 2023 2024 Highly Cited Chin

We are delighted to announce that Professor Ni Qin from our institute and her husband, Professor Zhang Lei (College of Information Science and Intelligence, Donghua University), have been awarded the title of 2025 Shanghai Education System’s 15th “Soaring Together Model Couples”.Both dedicated to education, they have advanced hand in hand in their teaching careers, nurturing students with outstanding professional expertise and collaborating seamlessly in disciplinary development. Not only have t

Recently, the Shanghai Municipal Talent Development Bureau announced the list of candidates for the 2025 Shanghai “Super Postdoctoral Fellow” Incentive Program. Li Zan, a postdoctoral fellow at our institute, has been selected for the 2025 program under the mentorship of Professor Lei Lei.About the AwardeeLi Zan holds a Ph.D. in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She joined the Postdoctoral Research Station of Foreign Languages

In December 2025, the CNKI Evaluation Center released the “2025 China’s Highly Cited Scholars” list. Eight faculty members from the Institute of Language Sciences at Shanghai International Studies University were selected. Professors Hu Kaibao, Han Ziman, Geng Qiang, Lei Lei, and Research Fellow Li Xiaoqian were recognized as “National Highly Cited Scholars (Top 1%)” in the discipline of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Professors Liao Qiaoyun and Zhao Ronghui were selected as “National Highly