Professor Hongming Zhang was recently awarded with the title of “Wilson T.S. Wang — New Method College Visiting Professorship in Language Education” by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In addition, at the 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) held at UW-Madison in May 2018, he was elected to serve as the Vice President of IACL this year and, in accordance to IACL’s constitution, will automatically be promoted to the position of President in the following year.