Dr LIU, Yiqi April

Total Awarded Competitive Funding: HK$9.06 million across 12 grants

External Grants

Principal Investigator

2024-2026: Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR), HKSAR
Innovating with a translanguaging/trans-semiotizing informed LAC model to improve ESL junior secondary students' academic English literacy

2022-2024: The General Research Fund (GRF), University Grants Committee, HKSAR
Bridging the Gap: Investigating the Effectiveness of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) with Translanguaging and Trans-semiotizing Pedagogy in Nursing Education

Co-Investigator

2026-2028: The Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG), University Grants Committee, HKSAR
Developing Multi-Agent-based Language Teaching System: Personalized Tutoring and Contextual Simulation
 

2018-2020: Education Bureau, Hong Kong SAR
Developing a Teaching Manual on Enhancing Students' English Writing Skills through Promoting Language across the Curriculum in Life and Society (Secondary 1-3) cum Trial Teaching and Teacher Training Workshops
 

2017-2019: National Social Science Foundation, PRC
Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies on News Reports about Hong Kong
 

Internal Grants

Principal Investigator

2025-2026: The Education University of Hong Kong & Sun Yat-Sen University Research Network Project
Exploring policy and practices of translanguaging-informed, technology-enhanced English-medium instruction (EMI) in the Greater Bay Area (GBA)
 

2025-2026: The Education University of Hong Kong & Institute of Education, University College London Research Network Project
Training and assessing student nurses' intercultural clinical communication with generative artificial intelligence
 

2024-2026: Central Reserve Allocation Committee (CRAC) Fund
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for English Speaking Skills
 

2022-2023: Central Reserve Allocation Committee (CRAC) Fund
Innovating with the Multimodalities-Extextualization Cycle in Language Across the Curriculum (LAC) to Improve ESL Junior Secondary Students' English Literacy
 

2021-2022: Seed Funding Grant
Translanguaging and Trans-semiotizing Pedagogies in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): Multimodalities-Entextualisation Cycle as a Method
 

2021-2022: Small-scale Research Grant 2020/21, Department of English Language Education, EdUHK
Hong Kong Secondary School Students' Perceptions about Using Translanguaging and Trans-semiotizing in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
 

2021-2022: Start-up Research Grant, EdUHK
Hong Kong Teachers' Opinions about Using Translanguaging and Trans-semiotizing in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
 

2018: School Research Fund, School of Education and Languages, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
EFL Students' Self-directed Technology Use for Content and Language Integrated Learning
 

Co-Investigator

2023-2026: Central Reserve Allocation Committee (CRAC) Fund
Promoting Internationalisation: Strengthening Support to Non-Local Students and Enhancing EdUHK's Global Image
 

2022-2023: The Education University of Hong Kong Learner Diversity Funding
School Support services for three deprived schools of English Language Education for Students with Learning Diversity (LD) in Junior Primary