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18thseptember2009

towhomitmayconcern,

ihaveknownmr.xxxeversincehewasanmastudent,andsincetheautumnof2008hehasbeenundermysupervisionasaphdcandidate.intheseyears,hehasattendedmycoursesandseminarsinlanguagetesting,eslreadingtheoryandpractice,psycholinguistics,etc.hehasimpressedmeasanintelligent,hardworking,andhighlymotivatedstudentwithgreatpotentialforacademicachievementandintellectualindependence.ihavenoticed,muchtomypleasure,thathehasastrongdesiretoprobeintoacademicallychallengingtopicsandhasthekindofdeterminationandperseverancenecessaryforconductingacademicresearch.

mr.xxxhasread,extensively,literatureonlanguagetesting,corpuslinguistics,syntax,pragmatics,secondlanguageacquisition,andotherrelatedsubjects.this,ibelieve,hasequippedhimwiththenecessarytheoreticalknowledgewhichwillenablehimtoundertakehisplannedresearch.sofarhehaspublished,asaco-author,anarticleonthetaggingprinciplesofcorpusforenglishmajors,inadditiontopapersacceptedandpresentedatseveralnationalsymposiumsonthemainland.

mr.xxxhasbeenheavilyinvolvedintwostate-fundedresearchprojects:constructionandapplicationsofcorpusforenglishmajors,andassessingspokenenglishofchinesescienceandengineeringmajors:acorpus-basedapproach.inaddition,hehasalsobeenamajorcontributorintwouniversity-fundedresearchprojects,bothofwhichconcerncorpus-basedstudies.hisparticipationintheseprojectshasenabledhimtoacquiremuchempiricalexperienceinconductingresearchwork,inparticular

corpus-basedresearch.

yourssincerely,

zuo

professorofenglish,

collegeofenglishlanguageamp;literature

shanghaiinternationalstudiesuniversity

550dalianrd(w)

shanghai200083

p.r.china

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