Dr Wang Lixun is a committed scholar with a great and enduring passion for teaching. A strong proponent of self-regulated learning, Dr Wang values the role of teachers as facilitators who are adept at exploiting diverse technological resources to engage students in collaborative learning.
Dr Wang is experienced in leveraging information technology to create sustainable pedagogical innovations. He has played a key role in promoting blended learning in his department (formerly the English Department, now the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies), and has adopted blended learning in all of his courses. He has successfully developed a wikibook assessment strategy and online quizzes for the teaching of linguistics that promote both assessment for learning and learner autonomy. His outstanding teaching is recognised by students and colleagues, as evident in their very positive feedback. He also promotes mobile learning in the Institute and beyond. As a Co-Investigator of a large scale Institute-level Teaching Development Grant (TDG) project, he is currently exploring innovative approaches to bringing mobile devices into the classroom to enhance learners’ reflective engagement. He is also co-leading a Community of Practice (CoP) project on mobile learning that is supported by the University Grants Committee’s Start-up Fund for the Establishment of Communities of Practice in the 2012- 2015 triennium.
Dr Wang has effectively promoted the scholarship of teaching. He has taken on important leadership roles in the departmental Learning and Teaching Committee, the Outcome-based Learning Project, the Programme Committee and the departmental Committee on Strategic Development in Linguistics. He actively researches teaching; he has been the Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator in over 10 TDG projects since 2003 and has participated in a series of research projects with teaching implications. He has published a number of articles on his various pedagogical innovations in different contexts and settings. His contributions to the teaching and learning resources are impressive, including websites on e-Learning in linguistics and outcome-based learning, a textbook on language studies and a handbook on academic writing in language and education programmes.
Dr Wang is commended for his efforts in promoting good practices, notably extensive presentations on online learning, blended learning, outcome-based learning and mobile learning at the Departmental, Faculty and Institute levels.
Dr Wang’s excellence in teaching has been well recognised. In 2010/11, he was conferred the Scholarship of Teaching Award by the Faculty of Languages (now the Faculty of Humanities). In 2012, he was one of six finalists for the UGC Teaching Award.
