- A Proposal on Sample Textbook Design for Lower Primary L2 Chinese Learners – A Pilot Study Leading to a Curriculum Development
Project Leader - Dr CHEUNG Lin Hong - Educational Linguistics 2.0 – The Use of Corpora in Language Teaching
Project Leader - Dr MA Qing Angel - Innovative English Language Teaching for Primary Students
Project Leader - Dr LEE Fung King Jackie - Grammar Teaching in Language Education
Project Leader - Dr LEE Fung King Jackie - A Digital Language Museum on Cantonese
Project Leader - Dr CHIN Chi On Andy
This proposed project aims to achieve three main objectives:
- To design and develop a sample unit of textbook for overseas lower primary L2 Chinese beginners, which will subsequently lead to a full-scale curriculum design.
- To supplement and reinforce the understanding of the above teaching materials with a multi-media e-learning platform and/or mobile application.
- To evaluate, consolidate and disseminate related teaching materials and research outputs via field work, a specialized seminar and a potential overseas conference.
Year: 2019/20
Project Leader -
Dr CHEUNG Lin Hong
Department of Chinese Language Studies
Duration: 16 Oct 2019 - 31 May 2020
Corpus linguistics has been identified as a strategic area to be focused on since the establishment of the LML department in 2012. Several colleagues have developed various corpora (http://corpus.eduhk.hk) in different languages (ie English, Chinese, Cantonese and Japanese), most of which being specialised corpora with a clear focus on certain specific language features. For example, the Chinese-English Parallel Corpora provide a good venue for examining literature translation from English to Chinese or vice versa; the English for Academic Purpose corpora (EAP) are used to improve students’ academic writing skills; the Spoken Corpora and Asian Corpus of English (ACE) can be used to improve students’ pronunciation; the Multilingual Parallel Corpora and Cantonese Movie Corpora provide learners with a multimodal approach to language learning. The research on these corpora has been fruitful and resulted in several projects and publications. Being aware of the good potential of the education values of these corpora, a number of colleagues from LML proposed a collective KTP in order to transfer the expertise and knowledge acquired by the department to school teachers in both Hong Kong and elsewhere (mainland China or other countries/regions). The project aims to achieve the following objectives:
- To introduce corpus linguistic approach to school teachers as a framework for understanding learners' language;
- To equip school teachers with skills and tools in developing their own corpus-based teaching/learning materials; and
- To create corpus-based teaching & learning resources for school teachers.
Year: 2016/17
Project Leader -
Dr MA Qing Angel
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
Capacity: PI (Dr MA Qing)
Capacity: Co-I (Dr LEE Fung King Jackie, Dr CHEN Hsueh Chu Rebecca, Dr WANG Lixun)
The project focuses on encouraging EdUHK students’ integration into regional education communities by enriching their learning experience outside the Hong Kong context. A group of student teachers at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels will be given opportunities to apply their pedagogical learning to real practice. Their task is to develop resources for the teaching of readers, grammar, vocabulary and phonics. Selected materials will be tried out in Nanhai Experimental Primary School, Foshan. Another feature of the project is the inclusion of some past project team members, who are now school teachers in Hong Kong, as peer observers in Foshan. The professional dialogues between the school teachers of the two regions, student teachers, and academics of EdUHK will encourage the innovative and critical thinking of all the parties involved.
Year: 2016/17
Project Leader -
Dr LEE Fung King Jackie
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
Capacity: PI (Dr LEE Fung King Jackie)
Capacity: Co-I (Dr CHEN Hsueh Chu Rebecca, Dr MA Qing)
The project is a continuation of the Knowledge Transfer Project entitled “Grammar Teaching Resources for School Teachers”, conducted in 2014–15. In this second phase, a group of Year 4 BEd(EL) students will be given opportunities to apply their pedagogical learning to real practice. Their task is to evaluate how grammar is presented and practised in some contemporary grammar books. The project team will meet regularly to discuss how to adapt the textbook materials and design their own instructional materials, which will be uploaded on a website for public sharing. The project also aims to promote contemporary grammar teaching methods to teachers in neighbouring regions. A seminar will be conducted by the project team in Foshan, China, and lesson tryouts will be conducted in Sarasas Ektra School, Bangkok.
Year: 2015/16
Project Leader -
Dr LEE Fung King Jackie
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
This KT project has the focused area on “Hong Kong cultural heritage”. It converts some of the findings of the PI's research project on the development of Cantonese into a “digital language museum” to highlight some interesting but unnoticeable linguistic changes of the Cantonese language over the past 60 years. The language items displayed in the digital museum include vocabulary and grammatical structures. Some of these features are displayed together with the selected video segments of the Cantonese movies. The language museum is an initiative to document the Cantonese language with authentic materials and also to introduce to the public the relevant socio-cultural issues of old Hong Kong.
Year: 2014/15
Project Leader -
Dr CHIN Chi On Andy
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
The concern of this project is how to teach grammar in an effective way. It aims to develop a website which provides useful grammar teaching resources for primary and secondary school teachers. Another aim is to give BEd(EL) students opportunities to apply their pedagogical learning to real practice. The task of the participating student teachers is to evaluate the lesson plans and teaching materials collected from their classmates. Under the guidance of the project supervisor, the project team will meet regularly to discuss how to revise the original plans and the materials. Ongoing discussion with the project supervisor and other team members will allow the student teachers to have a better understanding of the pedagogical principles learnt, and to develop enhanced lesson planning and materials development skills. School tryouts will be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the outcomes.
Year: 2014/15
Project Leader -
Dr LEE Fung King Jackie
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
The KT project aims to:
- Introduce and showcase the various linguistic corpora and relevant corpus linguistic tools developed at LML, and their potential values in text-based humanity research;
- Introduce to the target participants the relevant methodology and challenges in undertaking corpus-based research, especially on the Chinese language; and
- Enhance professional development of target participants by elevating their sensitiveness and awareness in using authentic and natural language materials in humanity research.
Year: 2012/13
Project Leader -
Dr CHIN Chi On Andy
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
- Facilitate Emotion Classification Based on Non-Intrusive Learner Data via Deep Neural Networks
Project Leader - Dr ZOU Di - Transferring Knowledge of Virtual Classroom for Teaching Writing
Project Leader - Dr ZOU Di - Transferring knowledge of Multi-modal Measurement of Learning Engagement of Hong Kong Primary School Students
Project Leader - Dr ZOU Di
This project aims to develop an AI-based model using deep neural network for learners’ emotion classification based on a single non-intrusive data source.
Year: 2021/22
Project Leader -
Dr ZOU Di
Department of English Language Education
This project aims:
1. To immerse students in virtual classrooms that apply different approaches to teaching writing through virtual reality technology;
2. To publish the research findings about the impact of different approaches on student learning in the virtual classroom;
3. To develop a demo for attending external exhibitions and marketing promotions based on the current virtual classroom for teaching writing established and supported by BLUE project of EdUHK;
4. To prepare materials including a handbook and online short videos, for transferring the knowledge and hand-on experience of developing virtual classroom for in-service teachers and students.
Year: 2020/21
Project Leader -
Dr ZOU Di
Department of English Language Education
This project aims:
- To identify primary school students’ emotions in the learning processes using modal measurements and make use of the data to improve the teaching and learning for better student engagement;
- To apply for the Innovation and Technology Fund for Better Living based on the proposed project; and
- To develop a patent related to emotion classification based on deep neural networks from multi-data sources.
Year: 2019/20
Project Leader -
Dr ZOU Di
Department of English Language Education
- Constructing a CSL Learner Corpus for Character-writing Error
Project Leader - Dr LIANG Yuan - Develop Self-directed Learning Materials For Reading Comprehension In Primary Schools With Fairy Tales
Project Leader - Dr CHEUNG Tsz Mei - Development of Children’s E-books to Enhance Young Learners’ Gender and Cultural Awareness
Project Leader - Dr LEE Fung King Jackie - Establishing a Special Interest Group to Promote Technology-enhanced Informal English Learning in Hong Kong
Project Leader - Dr ZOU Di - Online-collaboration on Learning Motivation and Learning Experiences and Outcomes: Investigating the Key for Successful Online Learning in Universities Across Hong Kong, Mainland and Macau
Project Leader - Dr YU Baohua
Through collecting handwriting data by students who learn Chinese as a second language (CSL) and developing a tag-set for error-annotation, this project aims to construct a CSL learner corpus for character-writing errors, and made reachable as an online resource for researchers and educators in the field of TCSL.
Year: 2020/21
Project Leader -
Dr LIANG Yuan
Department of Chinese Language Studies
Duration: 1 May 2021 - 30 June 2022
本研究嘗試以童話故事為自我主導學習教材，提昇小學生的閱讀能力，進而探求不同年級及階段學生能力的發展。
Year: 2019/20
Project Leader -
Dr CHEUNG Tsz Mei
Department of Chinese Language Studies
Duration: 16 Jun 2020 - 30 Nov 2022
- To enhance preservice teachers’ materials development skills, teaching skills and their abilities to discuss and evaluate reading materials through non-formal learning.
- To increase the awareness of student teachers, children’s book writers and educators regarding how best to approach culture education to prepare learners for intercultural citizenship in the globalised world.
- To heighten gender awareness among student teachers, children’s book writers and educators in an attempt to create a more gender-equal society.
Year: 2019/20
Project Leader -
Dr LEE Fung King Jackie
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
- To publish research papers and deliver academic presentations with the PhD students.
- To increase the expenditure on KT and the numbers of KT beneficiaries and the academic staff using research in teaching and using teaching as research.
- To publish research papers with the professional consultants and to increase the numbers of research outputs and projects with international research collaborations.
Year: 2019/20
Project Leader -
Dr ZOU Di
Department of English Language Education
Through cross-regional investigations, this research aims to explore how online-learning platforms affect students’ learning motivation and their learning experience through peer-collaboration and how students perceive the benefits and challenges of online-learning through the use of online-collaboration platforms.
Year: 2019/20
Project Leader -
Dr YU Baohua
Department of English Language Education
- To design a sample grammar textbook for young adults which will be piloted in FE schools and subsequently developed into a full-scale grammar, reading and writing English programme by pre-service and in- service teachers under the guidance of a researcher.
- To supplement the sample grammar book with a multi-media platform and/or mobile application which will be piloted by the student teachers in actual EFL classrooms.
- To evaluate, consolidate and disseminate research outputs through field works, seminars and conference.
- To reach a critical mass of around 870 students and teachers through this knowledge transfer project.
- Through this KT project, a research- teaching nexus will be created by guiding the students to develop a sample grammar book and pilot them in their classrooms.
- Student-teachers conduct action research to evaluate the effectiveness of the sample grammar book.
- With the research experiences and collected data, research papers will be co-authored by student-teachers and the researcher.
- With the research results from the previous funded project and this KT project, the research outcomes will be used for developing a full-scale grammar book for a language enhancement course and further research projects.
Year: 2019/20
Project Leader -
Dr WONG Ming Har Ruth
Department of English Language Education
To develop an interactive training package with the following goals:
- To introduce knowledge of acoustic phonetics to practicing speech therapists in mainland China for handling Putonghua-speaking children with speech sound disorders.
- To equip speech therapists with skills in using instrumental aids for acoustic analysis that will enhance their clinical judgement in performing speech sound disorder diagnoses and intervention plans in treating Putonghua-speaking children.
Year: 2018/19
Project Leader -
Prof CHEUNG Hin Tat, Dr LEE Kwing Lok Albert
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
This project proposes a framework of integrating orthographic knowledge with the culture embodied in the formation of Chinese characters to improve and enrich the practice of teaching Chinese characters for CSL teachers in Vietnam, informing Chinese textbook writers as an aid in the creation of a fuller curriculum.
Year: 2018/19
Project Leader -
Dr LIANG Yuan
Department of Chinese Language Studies
Duration: 19 May 2019 - 20 May 2020
本計劃的重點在「通過校本生本課程的建設來發展照顧個別差異的策略和措施，並把相關發展經驗總結為課程理論」，希望既能協助學校支援不同學生的學習特點和需要，又能拓展中國語言學系同事的專業活動範圍。參與導師會以協作小學為研究基地，探討、發展和建構照顧個別差異的語文科「校本生本」課程理論。
Year: 2016/17
Project Leader -
Dr CHEUNG Sau Hung
Department of Chinese Language Studies
Duration: 1 Nov 2016 - 31 May 2017
本計劃的重點在協助教師有效地運用教學評估，掌握運用評估數據改善學與教效能的技術。在協作計劃開展期間，團隊將以課程規劃 與教材建設為基礎進行校本評估的協作活動，並就校本語文課程開發與教材建設、普通話教中文、非華語學生學習中文等發展校本評估，引領教師善用評估結果來改善教學，提升學與教活動的效益。
Year: 2015/16
Project Leader -
Dr CHEUNG Sau Hung
Department of Chinese Language Studies
Duration: 1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2016
- Promoting Historical Empathy: Effective History Learning through Reconstructing the Past
Project Leader - Dr KANG Jong Hyuk David - Platform of Ocean Literature and Culture in Hong Kong: Project Establishment and Promotion
Project Leader - Dr YIP Cheuk Wai - The Analysis of Hong Kong Secondary School History Textbooks
Project Leader - Dr KANG Jong Hyuk David - Field Experience: A Verbatim Theatre Project
Project Leader - Dr DECOURSEY Matthew William - K-pop vs HK-pop: Hongkonger’s Culture and History
Project Leader - Dr KANG Jong Hyuk David
- Host professional development session(s) for frontline history instructors;
- Introduce the concept of historical empathy;
- Provide practical examples of how to apply the pedagogy in their history lessons;
- Collect feedback from participants;
- Produce teaching and learning resources on historical empathy.
Year: 2023/24
Project Leader -
Dr KANG Jong Hyuk David
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies
The concerns of studies about the ocean and international relation are raising, not only within the Asia sphere, but also in the global context. In order to resopond to such the research concern, this project aims to establish a platform collecting texts from Hong Kong literature releated to themes and metaphors about ocean. This project is expected to investigate and understand the relationship between the culture of ocean and Hong Kong, as well as providing spaces for the general public to think about the meanings of ocean to the city. It also serves the purpose of connectiong near countries and districts through the promotion of Hong Kong literature.
This project is the primary platform of the ocean literature in Hong Kong, which will make contributions on the topics exploration of literary and cultural studies, and the promotion of readings and research results about Hong Kong ocean literatuare to the public society.
Year: 2021/22
Project Leader -
Dr YIP Cheuk Wai
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies
- examine the historical narratives presented in the textbook
- identify any potential mistakes or biased accounts
- present possible ways for history instructors to explain the topic in their lesson
- provide relevant primary sources for students to analyze
- introduce our relevant research findings and results
- compile a short list of useful references
Year: 2019/20
Project Leader -
Dr KANG Jong Hyuk David
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies
- to build understanding of the human experience of FE among supervisors and administrators at our university and others, not ony in principle, but also vividly, as lived reality
- to help education students at our university and others to understand what the experience of FE will be, before they go
- to build theatrical skills among the most committed students
Year: 2018/19
Project Leader -
Dr DECOURSEY Matthew William
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies
This project aimed at examining the influence of Korean Culture in Hong Kong. After undergoing 150 years of colonial governance, Hong Kong is a product of cultural exchange between the East and the West. Since the turn of the century, Korean Popular Culture has been arguably the most impactful imported culture in Hong Kong not only in terms of its speed of dominance, but more importantly its depth and width of penetration — influencing Hong Kong’s pop culture, consumer culture, food culture, and beauty culture. By experiencing, observing, and analyzing the influence of Korean Popular Culture, or Hallyu (Korean: 한류, Chinese: 韓流), on post-colonial Hong Kong, this project was expected to help Hong Kong audiences to develop a better understanding of the uniqueness of Hong Kong popular culture, and to reflect on the cultural identity of this post-colonial society.
Year: 2016/17
Project Leader -
Dr KANG Jong Hyuk David
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies
- The Promotion Series of the Compendium of Hong Kong Literature
Project Leader - Prof CHAN Kwok Kou Leonard - The Promotion Series of the Compendium of Hong Kong Literature
Project Leader - Prof CHAN Kwok Kou Leonard, Dr YIP Cheuk Wai
- To promote the Compendium and the academic role of EdUHK in the Compendium.
- To broaden readers of the Compendium and audiences of activities.
- To cooperate with external parties and guests.
Year: 2018/19
Project Leader -
Prof CHAN Kwok Kou Leonard, Dr YIP Cheuk Wai
Research Centre for Chinese Literature & Literary Culture
- Project MuSE
Project Leader - Ms WONG Wai Ching Zerlina
Project MuSE is a school-based music and sports education programme for the development of underprivileged children. This project is funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. The Programme aims to bring transformative change to underprivileged children by enhancing their social, emotional, and cognitive development through sports and music education. Out of the HK$404.79 million, the Trust has approved HK$29.83 million to EdUHK for carrying out
- Music for All;
- Music Appreciation Workshops;
- Parents Workshops and
- Teachers' Workshops to 16 underprivileged primary schools.
Year: 2023/24
Project Leader -
Ms WONG Wai Ching Zerlina
Department of Cultural and Creative Arts
Capacity : Co-I (Dr LEUNG Chi Hin Michael and Dr LEE King Yue Philbert)
Project Duration: 6 Years