Educational Journey
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Ph.D. in National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education • National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education
2022Dagon University
M.A. (English) in Department of English • Department of English
2012Experience
Northbridge Education Centre
Academic Director
2025 - Present • EnglishGuarantee International College
Lecturer in English
2025 - Present • EnglishBritish United College
Lecturer
2022 - 2025 • English for Academic Purposes ProgramEditors Role
Reviewer
Humanities and Social Sciences Communication
0 - PresentReviewer
International Journal of Language and Linguistics
0 - PresentChief Editor
Advanced Research and Review in Multidisciplinary (Edited Book)
2023 -Grants and Awards
CSC scholarship
China Scholarship Council
Major Program of National Social Science Fund of China: Database Construction of Language Resources of Those Countries along the Belt and Road and Contrastive Studies between Chinese and Foreign Languages
National Social Science Fund of China
Research
Construction of the THEME System of Myanmar
The main purpose of this paper is to construct the THEME system of Myanmar following the system network for Theme in English proposed by Halliday (1985, 1994; Halliday and Matthiessen 2004, 2014) within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. It is found that the THEME system of Myanmar consists of two sub-systems: Theme status and Theme composition. For the former, there are two major types: unmarked and enhanced Themes, while for the latter, Theme can be presented in two ways: simple and multiple Themes. Unmarked Themes in Myanmar clauses are Subject, Complement, Adjunct, hypotactic clause, Predicator (only in imperative), and Ba-element (only in interrogative). The enhanced Theme in Myanmar contains two major types: equative or preposed attribute. Multiple Theme includes textual, interpersonal and topical Themes which can be chosen as a point of departure of the clause. The findings may shed light on the realization of the textual metafunction of Myanmar language.
