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
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
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
Year: 2019/20
Project Leader -
Dr KANG Jong Hyuk David
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies