Professor Ma Huiling, female, born in Anyang, Henan Province in January 1964, is the current deputy dean of International School for Chinese Language and Culture of Henan University, a supervisor of students majoring in Chinese International Education, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and a member of Henan Province Committee for Chinese International Education and Teaching. She was the former deputy director of the International Affairs Office of Henan University, the deputy secretary of the Graduate Affairs Office for the Party Committee of Henan University, the deputy director of the Educational Management Office for the Graduate School of Henan University.

Ma Huiling received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Chinese Language and Literature Department of Henan University in July 1986, a Master of Arts degree in Chinese Philology from Henan University in June 2002 and a Doctor of Arts degree in Chinese Philology from Fudan University in January 2006.

Ma Huiling was engaged in teaching Chinese as a foreign language from July 1986. Accredited by the National Chinese Office to the Asian International Exchange Scholarship Consortium of Japan, she launched out into the instruction of HSK and Chinese language teaching from January 2004 to February 2005. The courses she taught the international students are elementary and secondary comprehensive courses, speaking, listening, reading and writing courses and postgraduates course such as theories and methodology for teaching Chinese as a second language, pedagogy for teaching Chinese as a second language and teaching of linguistic elements.

Ma Huiling’s major research fields cover teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages, Chinese rhetoric and cultural linguistics. Since she entered the work world, she has published more than 30 research papers and 5 monographs and textbooks, participated in completing 4 national social science foundation projects of China, directed and completed 3 provincial and ministerial projects and 4 projects of Education Department. Ma Huiling was named leader of academic and technological professionals by Henan Province Education Department in 2006.