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Dr. ZHAO Ke (Coco) is an Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Studies at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. She worked as lecturer and course coordinator for a Sino-British cooperative English for International Business (EIB) programme in Shanghai and visited the UNESCO Chair in Problem-Based Learning at Aalborg University in 2008. She completed her PhD study at the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong in June 2010. Her PhD thesis was nominated as Award for Outstanding Thesis by the thesis examiner panel. Her PhD research area includes EIB learning and principle-based technology-enhanced instruction for Chinese EIB students. Her main research interests are computer-supported collaborative inquiry EIB learning, collaboration, business communication, academic literacy, and assessment. Her current research projects are mainly premised at the interface of applied linguistics (English for Specific Purposes) and the sciences of learning.
She has published parts of her PhD study as international refereed published proceeding papers and in domestic leading journals. She won international awards of ‘APSCE Merit Scholarship’, ‘Best Paper Award Nomination’ and ‘Outstanding Community Service in ICCE 2008’ for the quality research work and for her dedication to community services.
She has also served as a manuscript reviewer for TAPER (SSCI) and IJCSCL (leading SSCI journal) and will serve on the IJCSCL editorial board from 2014.