Huang Zheng, Ph.D, a specialist in sociolinguistics, is currently a lecturer at Shanghai Normal University. She obtained her doctoral degree from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests include teacher education, language teaching, and World Englishes. She published the paper Coherence of conjunctive words in discourse in the Journal of Shanghai Normal University in 2003. She is also the author/co-author of three books: An Instructive Course for CET 4, An Instructive Course for CET 6, and English Writing for TEM 4: Patterns and Practices, all published by Shanghai Jiaotong University Press. She was funded by Shanghai Normal University to conduct the further research on NEST/NNEST issues in Shanghai, one of the most globalized cities in China.