Research Postgraduate Student Research Forum 2020

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Following past traditions, the Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Studies (CRLLS) and the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML) organised the annual Research Postgraduate (RPg) Student Research Forum on 30 October 2020. Given the pandemic situation, the research forum was conducted online through Zoom. More than 20 colleagues and postgraduate students joined the forum.

Each year, new incoming RPg students are welcomed at the forum. Second year RPg students attending the forum will give a presentation on their research topic. Their supervisors are invited to attend the forum as a supporting figure. The forum is organised each year for the RPg students as a platform for them to present their ongoing research in public, an important step in their academic pursuit. Feedback collected in the forum also helps them advance their thesis research, regardless of their stage of progression in their study.  

This year, we welcomed three new incoming RPg students. Ms Liu Ping is affiliated to LML and supervised by Dr Jackie Lee (LML). Ms Tang Khanh Hoa and Mr Wang Hao are affiliated to the Department of English Language Education (ELE) and supervised by Dr Michelle Gu (ELE) and Dr John Trent (ELE) respectively.

Four short presentations were given by our second year RPg students. Ms Liubov Darzhinova (LML; ELE) supervised by Dr Zoe Luk (LML) and Dr Daisy Zou (ELE) gave a presentation on L1 and L2 comprehension of Russian syntactically ambiguous participial relative clause sentences. Ms Dina Kucherbayeva (LML) supervised by Dr Andy Chin (LML) talked about the language attitude and use in Modern Kazakhstan. Ms Sun Xiujuan (ELE) supervised by Dr John Trent (ELE) presented on the topic on a narrative inquiry into the identity construction trajectories of PhD students in Hong Kong. Lastly, Ms Xiang Xiaoting (ELE) supervised by Dr Lucy Yu (ELE) talked about understanding academic writing teacher expertise and its development path.

Group photo of our participants.

Group photo of our participants.