- Generative AI and Second Language Writing: Investigating Learner Development, Designing a Pedagogical Framework for Teacher Education, and Validating Practice Across Languages
Project Leader - Prof STOCKWELL Glenn - The Role of Larynx and Tongue Height in Tone Production by L1 and L2 Speakers: An Ultrasound Study
Project Leader - Dr LEE Kwing Lok Albert - A Corpus-Assisted Multimodal Discourse Analysis on Green Burial Promotion in Hong Kong
Project Leader - Dr YIP Wai Chi Jesse - Hong Kong as a city of translations: the semiotics of place-making in linguistic and cultural dynamics
Project Leader - Dr SONG Ge - Comparative Analysis of Health Concepts among the Youth and the Elderly in Hong Kong: A Corpus-based Study
Project Leader - Prof WANG Lixun
The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT into educational contexts has created what can be termed an “implementation-before-investigation” phenomenon, where pedagogical practice has outpaced empirical research on learning outcomes. This study addresses the fundamental question of whether generative AI supports genuine second language (L2) writing development or merely enhances performance whilst technological support is available. Through a rigorous three-phase mixed-methods design, this project investigates both learner development and teacher preparation across multiple linguistic contexts. Phase 1 employs a quasi-experimental study with 200 L2 English learners using a matrix design that alternates between AI-supported and independent writing tasks. Crucially, pre- and post-benchmark assessments conducted without AI support will measure authentic development using established quantitative metrics (error-free T-units, lexical diversity) and qualitative measures (coherence, cohesion). Systematic interventions will introduce evidence-based strategies including prompt engineering, critical evaluation of AI output, and AI-assisted revision workflows. Phase 2 develops and validates a pedagogical framework through training 300 student teachers across English and modern languages programmes (French, Japanese, Korean). This cross-linguistic approach enables investigation of framework transferability across different orthographic systems and pedagogical traditions. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling will examine relationships between teacher beliefs, confidence, perceived AI usefulness, and pedagogical intentions. Phase 3 validates findings through classroom implementation, following student teachers into practicum and early in-service contexts. Simplified assessment tools from Phase 1 will monitor authentic student development whilst PLS-SEM modelling validates predictive relationships between teacher preparation and observed pedagogical behaviours. This research directly addresses critical gaps in our understanding of the impact of AI on language education by differentiating between AI-enhanced performance and sustained learning development. The validated pedagogical framework will provide scalable, evidence-based guidance for responsible AI integration, with cross-linguistic validation ensuring applicability across Hong Kong’s multilingual educational landscape and beyond. Outcomes will inform teacher education curricula, institutional policies, and assessment practices, contributing to principled approaches to AI integration during this transformative period in language education.
Year: 2026 - 2029
Project Leader -
Prof STOCKWELL Glenn
Capacity: PI
This project builds on the applicant’s current GRF study (#18601423) which investigates tone-vowel interaction in Cantonese and Mandarin. This line of work challenges the traditional ‘source and filter’ assumption that tone and segments are independent of each other. In this proposal, we seek to extend our current work on the tongue to another articulator – the larynx, using ultrasound imaging. This used to receive little attention in the past due to the low temporal resolution of ultrasound scanners, but is now emerging in phonetics due to much higher frame rates. To date, there are only a handful of published studies looking at larynx height with ultrasound (notably by Marc Brunelle at U of Ottawa) on Southeast Asian languages, leaving behind a huge gap in the literature on Chinese languages which also have rich tonal inventories. This project seeks to answer the following questions: - How do L1 and L2 speakers differ in tone production (esp. ‘tonal coarticulation’) - How are the movements of the tongue and the larynx temporally coordinated during tone production? - Does larynx height predict individual differences in tone-vowel interaction? We plan to test native Cantonese and Mandarin speakers, who also speak the other language as L2. Twenty participants will be recruited for each L1 group. They will produce Cantonese and Mandarin (either as L1 or L2) disyllables, and have their voice, as well as tongue and larynx movement recorded using ultrasound imaging. Our findings will enhance our understanding of articulatory planning and execution with respect to tone.
Year: 2026 - 2029
Project Leader -
Dr LEE Kwing Lok Albert
Capacity: PI
Cremation has been the most popular means of body disposition in Hong Kong; however, this practice raises concerns about pollution, public health, and land shortages, thereby threatening the sustainability of the city’s development. Green burial practices (GBP), such as using biodegradable materials and scattering cremated remains at green burial sites (e.g., gardens or at sea), offer environmentally friendly alternatives that can address the urgent demand for land resources and ease the financial burden on families. Since 2021, the SAR government has launched a campaign to promote GBP. The promotion involves textual and multimodal discourses, including webpages, videos, posters, and online articles. Prior research on the popularisation of GBP has tended to focus on public opinions toward these practices. However, crucial arguments, and linguistic and audio-visual elements that constitute the advertising discourse, have been overlooked, and the effectiveness of such discourse has remained unmeasured. This study perceives the green burials campaign as a form of strategic public communication, where the discourses aim to reformulate addressees’ beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviours. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, the research will examine textual and multimodal discourses. Specifically, corpus-assisted discourse analysis, with the assistance of large-language models, will be conducted to reveal the discourses/themes and metadiscourse features in the textual data. Moreover, multimodal discourse features of the webpages, videos, and psoters related to GBP will be revealed and examined. These analyses elucidate how linguistic and semiotic patterns, as well as key themes/discourses, are utilised and constructed to (re)contextualise and (re)frame GBP in ways that are compatible with traditional Chinese funeral cultures and to influence addressees’ view towards GBP. To supplement the discourse studies, a survey will be distributed to investigate addressees’ perceptions of the promotional discourse and to measure its effectiveness. The significance of this project is three-fold. First, it contributes to the growing literature on death concepts, funeral culture, and environmental sustainability by explicating how GBP can be made compatible with traditional funeral cultures and help enhance environmental and socio-economic sustainability. Second, it elucidates the dynamic relationships between metadiscourse and contradictory ideologies (i.e., traditionalism and environmentalism) in advertising discourse. Third, it offers practical implications for enhancing the green burial promotion in terms of language style, content organisation, arguments, and the use of audio-visual resources.
Year: 2026 - 2028
Project Leader -
Dr YIP Wai Chi Jesse
Capacity: PI
For over half a century, Hong Kong’s visual identity has been shaped by the extraordinary density of urban texts, where Chinese and English signs created a distinctive streetscape that symbolized the city’s vitality and cross-cultural character. These texts form a holistic urban discourse that shapes social interactions and cultural meanings. Although recent regulations have led to the removal of many large-scale signs, Hong Kong remains a text-rich environment where multiple languages and scripts continue to shape public spaces, urban discourses, and cultural identity in evolving forms reflecting social and technological change. Previous studies have focused mainly on contemporary practices or isolated periods, often overlooking the evolution of urban textscapes amid shifting sociocultural and geopolitical realities, and the impact of physical carriers (from three-dimensional signage to mobile displays) on the city’s semiotic ecosystem. The interplay among text display, urban density, and architectural styles remains undertheorized, as does the spectrum of translation practices mediating between literal linguistic conversion and broader cultural acculturation. This project examines public signs in Hong Kong as a holistic system of everyday discourse, situating developments from 2015 to 2027 within a broader historical and sociopolitical context. Through fieldwork across diverse neighborhoods, from text-rich vernacular areas to text-poor financial districts, I will investigate the interaction of signage with color schemes, architectural details, and other semiotic resources in constructing urban visual identity. The research theorizes anew China-Western convergence by conceptualizing Hong Kong as a “city of translations”, where language and semiotic affordances mediate cultural interaction across China, the West, and beyond. Archival research and theoretical analysis of collected data will support an innovative framework for urban languages and semiotics, and the role of translation in shaping civic participation. An interactive digital platform will be established to serve as both a research corpus and a public engagement tool, which will enable continuous documentation of Hong Kong’s evolving linguistic landscape and fostering community participation in cultural preservation and creative imagination. This project will advance our understanding of urban spaces as mediators of cultural exchange, providing insights for language policy, heritage conservation, and urban planning. By conceptualizing Hong Kong as a city of translations, it will contribute new theoretical perspectives to sociolinguistics, translation studies, and cultural studies, and innovate our understanding of multilingual urban environments amid rapid technological and social change.
Year: 2026 - 2028
Project Leader -
Dr SONG Ge
Capacity: PI
Health concepts have gained global importance, especially highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with distinct perspectives across age groups significantly impacting public health strategies. In Hong Kong, traditional Chinese medicine popular among the elderly emphasizes natural remedies and a balanced lifestyle, whereas the youth are more inclined towards Western practices that advocate for active living and regular medical check-ups. These divergent views extend to illness management and public health behaviors, such as attitudes towards wearing masks. Our study investigates these health concept disparities between two key age groups, 15-25 and over 65, in Hong Kong. By exploring these generational and cultural differences, we aim to understand how changes in social, historical, and technological contexts have influenced health beliefs. This knowledge is crucial for developing targeted public health initiatives and educational programs tailored to the unique East-West blend of health practices in Hong Kong. Utilizing the Digital platform for collecting Online Language Data (DOLD) developed at the Education University of Hong Kong, we will collect and analyze personal health narratives from these age groups. Participants will share their experiences and perspectives on health, which will be transformed into textual data for corpus-assisted discourse analysis. This analysis will employ tools like AntConc to perform keyword analysis and explore how these keywords relate to health perceptions within the narratives. We will employ an enhanced narrative analysis framework that considers both the form and function of narratives within our corpus, using a mixed-methods approach to quantitatively code and qualitatively interpret how different age groups in Hong Kong conceptualize health, thereby informing more effective health communication strategies. The quantitative aspect of our research will examine correlations between health concept variations and demographic factors such as age, gender, and education level. This approach not only highlights the linguistic framing of health concepts but also underscores the extralinguistic factors affecting health views across different life stages. By adopting a constructionist approach and focusing on the distinct health perspectives of younger and older residents in Hong Kong, our study addresses a significant research gap. It aims to enhance understanding of health within these demographic groups, thereby improving health communication, informing policy, and optimizing educational outreach in Hong Kong’s culturally diverse environment. The outcomes are expected to provide valuable insights that will help refine health strategies to better meet the needs of these varied groups.
Year: 2025 - 2027
Project Leader -
Prof WANG Lixun
Capacity: PI
本項目根植於博物館面向包容和無障礙的巨變之中。每個展品標籤、語音描述、目錄、新聞稿和社交媒體貼文不再僅僅是文字，而是創造豐富個人體驗的媒介。香港的博物館已經接納這種變革的理念，但博物館文本創作者對於如何撰寫能夠引起多元觀眾共鳴的中英雙語文本仍存有疑惑。問題還包括缺少對有效的語言工具的瞭解和缺乏培訓材料以培養新一代博物館撰稿人。 這些實際問題與英語和中文應用語言學研究中的兩個缺陷有關：首先，在博物館語境下，對語言資源的研究幾乎未考慮觀眾接受度。其次，對包容的、無障礙的中文語言資源的關注極其有限。這些尚未解決的缺陷給本項目提供了研究機會和社會影響力，包括為香港的博物館提供包容和無障礙文本所需的語言工具和見解。 這項調查將專注於一種博物館文本體裁，即展品標籤，因其對參觀者的體驗至關重要。我們將進行一項接受度的研究，以了解多元觀眾的心理——是甚麼激發了他們的好奇心和參與度——透過調查揭示他們如何看待和接受英語和中文的展品標籤。隨後，一項語料庫輔助話語研究（CADS）將旨在確定與多元參觀者偏好相吻合的英語和中文語言資源。最終，接受度研究和CADS將使我們能夠確定哪些語言資源最適合觀眾偏好。我們還將支持中文語言在博物館中的有效使用，推進有關包容與無障礙的博物館文本的知識。 本項目的成果將包括一套多功能的培訓材料，具有各種益處。短期內，一系列定製的工作坊將提升香港博物館專業人員撰寫具有包容性的文本的技能。我們的合作夥伴將從寫作指南的改進中獲益，而大學教育者和學生將獲得增強寫作訓練資源。中期內，我們將透過在線課程與本地和國際博物館分享知識。由此帶來的整合包容策略將增強訪客的博物館體驗。最終，這將促使更廣泛的，語言更包容的社會轉變，從而使博物館參觀者和專業人員從中受益。
Year: 2024 - 2027
Project Leader -
Dr Xu Xiaoyu
Capacity: PI
This project seeks to investigate the relationship between tongue movement and tone in speech production – two parts of articulation formerly considered independent from each other. We look at consonant-vowel coordination in Cantonese and Mandarin, two languages with respectively six and four lexical tones, under different tone and speech rate conditions. Both acoustic (formant) and articulatory (high temporal resolution ultrasound tongue imaging) data will be collected for analysis, followed by analysis-by-synthesis using VocalTractLab. Our findings will shed new lights on (i) our understanding of speech production, (ii) individual differences in articulatory control, and demonstrate (iii) the use of articulatory synthesis as a convenient tool for hypothesis-testing in articulation research.
Year: 2023 - 2027
Project Leader -
Dr LEE Kwing Lok Albert
Capacity: PI
Empirical corpus-based studies have demonstrated many positive outcomes in learners’ development of various language skills. However, frontline language teachers in primary and secondary schools are unfamiliar with corpus technology, mainly due to the lack of technological, pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) training in corpus technology. To address this knowledge gap, we have recently developed a corpus-based language pedagogy (CBLP) that blends language pedagogy with corpus technology. This proposal aims to frame training in corpus technology for student teachers within the TPACK framework to foster CBLP for effective teaching using corpus technology. This research will also provide a theoretical model by investigating how student teachers in Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland receive TPACK training in corpus technology, and how this can influence their self-efficacies for independent language learning and teaching.
Year: 2023 - 2026
Project Leader -
Dr MA Qing Angel
Capacity: PI
Two problems have remained unresolved in speech prosody research. The first one is that there are numerous rival theories that have coexisted for decades -- supporters for one do not necessarily understand the others well. The second one is that in the absence of a universally accepted framework, field linguists working with a new language could propose prosodic analyses not otherwise satisfactory to fellow researchers, in part also due to field-related practical challenges compared with lab settings. Computational modelling can be a useful tool for addressing these problems. This project seeks to promote computational modeling of fundamental frequency as a tool for (i) theory comparison and (ii) hypothesis testing and analysis *for field linguists*. Here we specifically target linguists without background in computer science or statistics.
Year: 2021 - 2023
Project Leader -
Dr LEE Kwing Lok Albert
Capacity: PI
Writing from sources is an important academic literacy skill essential for university students to succeed in academia. Nonetheless, because it involves a set of complex cognitive, metacognitive, and self-regulatory processes and strategies, it is extremely challenging. Existing research primarily focused on the cognitive processes of sourcebased writing, adopting qualitative and case-study based methods. While the research generated a nuanced understanding of the intricate mental struggles and issues during the reading-to-write process, it did not investigate the contextual and behavioural aspects of the process, such as the regulation of time, environment and motivation. There is also a paucity of research adopting quantitative means to connect important antecedent, process and outcome variables to generate a comprehensive picture with sufficient clarify to guide practice and further research. The proposed study will attempt to address the above gaps in the literature.
Year: 2021 - 2023
Project Leader -
Dr XIE Qin
Capacity: PI
In Hong Kong, multilingualism is prevalent, where citizens have Cantonese as their first language (L1), Mandarin and English as their second (L2) or third language (L3). Previous studies pointed out that the language acquisition of a multilingual is nonlinear and dynamic (Jessner, 2008), and L3 speakers possess a greater repertoire than L2 speakers in terms of cognitive flexibility, phonetic-phonological articulatory, perceptual knowledge and language-learning awareness that helps L3 learners better acquire a new language (Gut, 2009). Regarding the complexity of language teaching and acquisition, this project aims to examine the interaction amongst L1, L2, and L3 and provide in-depth insights for language teachers and learners in Hong Kong and researchers worldwide.
Year: 2020 - 2022
Project Leader -
Dr CHEN Hsueh Chu Rebecca
Capacity: PI
Effective learning of second language (L2) vocabulary hinges on the learners’ ability to self-regulate their learning. However, little research interest has been shown in how students self-regulate when they are left on their own to explore L2 vocabulary learning mediated by mobile technologies. In this research, a self-regulated and personalised (SRP) vocabulary learning approach is developed and its effectiveness measured. This research aims to help students develop a heightened capacity for self-regulation to learn L2 vocabulary with mobile technologies more efficiently and effectively. This research adopts a mixed-method design. An experimental design is adopted to find out to what extent students can learn L2 vocabulary using the SRP approach in a mobile technology-mediated environment via a self-directed intervention for one semester. In addition, a multi-case study will be conducted to provide qualitative evidence to verify whether the self-directed SRP approach can lead to a heightened capacity for self-regulation.
Year: 2019 - 2021
Project Leader -
Dr MA Qing Angel
Capacity: PI
English is stress-timed while Chinese is syllable-timed, which makes English word stress placement difficult for Chinese learners of English. This project aims to develop assessment tasks to identify Chinese learners’ difficulties in English word stress placement in perception and production, design training programmes to examine whether word stress can be acquired systematically, and conduct a teaching experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of the training programmes in facilitating the learning of word stress. This project will generate substantial impact in both theory and practice.
Year: 2019 - 2021
Project Leader -
Dr CHEN Hsueh Chu Rebecca
Capacity: PI
The present study arises from the belief that early school readers play a major role in the socialisation of children’s lives and their gender development, and that schooling is an important medium of reproducing cultures and of perpetuating the existing mechanisms of domination. The study aims to examine how male and female characters are represented in the readers produced by local publishers and those recommended by the Education Bureau in its two popular reading schemes, namely the Primary Literacy Programme: Reading and Writing, and Reading across the Curriculum. A total of 180 readers for Key Stage 1 (Primary 1-3) will be selected for the analysis. The value of the investigation is that it will help heighten the public awareness of the power of book authors to position the two genders through various means.
Year: 2018 - 2020
Project Leader -
Prof LEE Fung King Jackie
Capacity: PI (Dr LEE Fung King Jackie)
Capacity: Co-I (Dr CHIN Chi On Andy)
The objective of this research project is to empirically investigate how non-literary translation practitioners and translation clients perceive translator professionalism, which is understood as not only involving knowledge and expertise but also the virtues of trustworthiness and altruism.
Year: 2016 - 2018
Project Leader -
Dr LIU Fung Ming Christy
Capacity: PI
This proposed study will examine the development of Cantonese narrative in ethnic minority children of Hong Kong with special focus on three sub-groups, namely, Indian, Pakistani, and Nepalese, who are commonly called South Asians.
Year: 2015 - 2017
Project Leader -
Prof CHEUNG Hin Tat
Capacity: PI
This project aims to carry out a more complete inquiry into trilingual education in Hong Kong primary schools. The research questions are: 1. What are the models of trilingual education in HK primary schools? 2. Which models are more effective in fostering trilingualism?
Year: 2014 - 2016
Project Leader -
Dr WANG Lixun
Capacity: PI
- Comparing the Portrayals and Medicalisation of Autism in Hong Kong Newspapers with the Perceptions of Individuals with Autism: A Discourse Analytic Study
Project Leader - Dr YIP Wai Chi Jesse - L2 Phonemic Quantity Contrasts: Production and Perception by Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Japanese Speakers
Project Leader - Dr LEE Kwing Lok Albert - Working Towards an iClinic: Developing a Suite of Diagnostic Language Testing Instruments for Academic Writing in English (DiaWrite)
Project Leader - Dr XIE Qin
The number of people being diagnosed with autism is increasing globally. Healthcare professionals define and categorise autism as a type of mental disorder, and individuals with autism (IWAs) are often perceived as having disabilities. Thus, autism is generally medicalised as an illness. The news media plays a crucial role in shaping the public’s understanding of autism and IWAs. Prior research has suggested that the negative representation and medicalisation of autism in newspapers can cause IWAs to be stigmatised and their mental health to deteriorate.
Despite negative impacts brought by medicalisation, very little research has systematically examined the linguistic construction of the medicalisation in the press. Without this knowledge, we cannot understand whether and how autism and autistic identity is stigmatised in the discourse. Other research gaps are also identified. First, very little research has focused on the Chinese speaking region in which more than 10 million people have been diagnosed with autism. Second, nearly all of the previous studies have used content analyses to examine somewhat small news corpora. The language use in the news portrayal of autism has been overlooked. Moreover, the studies discussed the impacts of the news portrayal about autism without exploring the perceptions of IWAs.
Guided by a social constructionist perspective, the proposed study investigates the news representation of autism in Hong Kong with consideration of the perception of IWAs. Based on a self-compiled corpus containing more than 18000 news articles related to autism, the focal analysis will be a corpus-assisted discourse analysis that combines corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to examine how autism is portrayed and medicalised linguistically through the analyses of keywords, word frequency, collocates, N-grams and concordances. Diachronic analyses will be conducted to understand changes of the representations and medicalisation over time (2000-2022). Then semi-structured individual interviews will be conducted with IWAs to explore their perceptions of autism, their autistic identity and the news portrayal of autism. The results of the analyses will be compared empirically to discuss the potential impacts of the news on IWAs and generate implications.
The significance of this project is three-fold. First, it elucidates how portrayals of autism and the medicalisation of autism in Chinese newspapers operate and may stigmatise IWAs from a discourse-analytical perspective. Second, it enhances the public’s understanding of IWAs by eliciting and investigating their voices. Third, it provides practical implications for journalists, researchers, educators, healthcare practitioners, and lawmakers.
Year: 2024 - 2027
Project Leader -
Dr YIP Wai Chi Jesse
Capacity: PI
This project examines an underexplored yet fundamental question in second language (L2) research: when acquiring new speech sounds, do L2 learners draw on knowledge of their first language (L1) phonology sound-by-sound or along some continuous dimension such as length?
Taking phonemic length (i.e. short vs. long sounds) as the test case, we will compare native listeners with different L1 backgrounds producing and perceiving length contrasts in non-native language(s). Their relative performance will answer numerous questions about how L1 transfer occurs.
The findings of the study are expected to have both theoretical and pedagogical implications. At the theoretical level, our findings can lead to a definitive conclusion at the ‘feature vs. category’ dialogue in L2 phonological acquisition. In turn, this will benefit learners of languages where length distinctions matter, such as Japanese. In the long run, our findings can also help teachers devise more effective pedagogical strategies.
Year: 2020 - 2021
Project Leader -
Dr LEE Kwing Lok Albert
Capacity: PI
This project aims to fill this research gap by developing and validating a coherent suite of language testing instruments (DiaWrite) to diagnose Hong Kong undergraduates’ relative strengths and weaknesses in writing academic essays in English.
Year: 2016 - 2018
Project Leader -
Dr XIE Qin
Capacity: PI
- Cantonese phonetic input method (Jyutping) with minority language support
Project Leader - Dr LAU Chaak Ming - A self-learning open platform of Chinese for non-Chinese speaking learners
Project Leader - Dr CHIN Chi On Andy - Children’s literature in English language teaching for primary students in Hong Kong
Project Leader - Prof LEE Fung King Jackie
Year: 2021 - 2023
Project Leader -
Dr LAU Chaak Ming
Capacity: PI
Year: 2019 - 2021
Project Leader -
Dr CHIN Chi On Andy
Capacity: PI
Year: 2018 - 2020
Project Leader -
Prof LEE Fung King Jackie
Capacity: Co-I
- ELPA: A collborative project on developing an English test to assess students' English proficiency after admission
Project Leader - Prof CHEUNG Hin Tat
Year: 2015 - 2018
Project Leader -
Prof CHEUNG Hin Tat
Capacity: PI
- The Role of Consonants, Vowels and Tones in Early Lexical Acquisition (COVOTO)
Project Leader - Prof CHEUNG Hin Tat
The present project will be the first to address this issue, exploring infants ’ relative sensitivity to and use of consonants, vowels and tones in Cantonese and French environments.
Year: 2016 - 2019
Project Leader -
Prof CHEUNG Hin Tat
Capacity: PI
- Gender Awareness in Language Education
Project Leader - Prof LEE Fung King Jackie - Language and Gender Studies in Educational Materials in East Asia
Project Leader - Prof LEE Fung King Jackie
Year: 2017
Project Leader -
Prof LEE Fung King Jackie
Capacity: PI
Year: 2013
Project Leader -
Prof LEE Fung King Jackie
Capacity: PI
- A study of Western missionaries' production of religious and pedagogical books in the Cantonese language in late-Qing period
Project Leader - Dr KATAOKA Shin - Digitalisation and Publication of Audio Storybooks for Hong Kong Indigenous Languages: Hakka and Waitau
Project Leader - Dr LAU Chaak Ming - A Study of the Cantonese Bibles by Western Protestant Missionaries in the Late-Qing and Early-Republican Era
Project Leader - Dr KATAOKA Shin
Year: 2021 - 2022
Project Leader -
Dr KATAOKA Shin
Capacity: PI
Year: 2021 - 2022
Project Leader -
Dr LAU Chaak Ming
Capacity: PI
Year: 2019 - 2020
Project Leader -
Dr KATAOKA Shin
Capacity: PI
- A comparative study of culture education in ELT textbooks – the cases of Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland
Project Leader - Prof LEE Fung King Jackie - A preliminary investigation into translator status signalling mechanisms in online communities
Project Leader - Dr LIU Fung Ming Christy - A Self-regulated and Personalised Vocabulary Learning Approach Mediated by Mobile Technologies for Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese University Students
Project Leader - Dr MA Qing - Comparative modelling of speech prosody: AM theory vs. PENTA model
Project Leader - Dr LEE Kwing Lok Albert - Production and Perception of L2 Phonemic Quantity Contrasts Across Languages
Project Leader - Dr LEE Kwing Lok Albert
Year: 2019 - 2020
Project Leader -
Prof LEE Fung King Jackie
Capacity: PI
Year: 2019 - 2020
Project Leader -
Dr LIU Fung Ming Christy
Capacity: PI
Year: 2019 - 2020
Project Leader -
Dr MA Qing
Capacity: PI
Year: 2019 - 2020
Project Leader -
Dr LEE Kwing Lok Albert
Capacity: PI
Year: 2019 - 2020
Project Leader -
Dr LEE Kwing Lok Albert
Capacity: PI
Year: 2019 - 2020
Project Leader -
Dr LUK Pei Sui Zoe
Capacity: PI
Year: 2019 - 2020
Project Leader -
Dr CHEN Hsueh Chu Rebecca
Capacity: PI
Year: 2017 - 2019
Project Leader -
Dr XIE Qin
Capacity: PI
Year: 2018
Project Leader -
Dr WANG Lixun
Capacity: PI
Year: 2017 - 2018
Project Leader -
Dr CHEN Hsueh Chu Rebecca
Capacity: PI
- Human-AI Collaboration in Japanese Language Learning: Investigating Learning Processes and Developing Pedagogical Practices
Project Leader - Prof STOCKWELL Glenn
Year: 2026 - 2029
Project Leader -
Prof STOCKWELL Glenn
Capacity: PI
- Toward a Research Cluster in Clinical Linguistics
Project Leader - Prof CHEUNG Hin Tat - Establishing a Research Cluster in the EdUHK for promoting research on Multilingual Acquisition and Mulitilingual Education
Project Leader - Dr WANG Lixun
Year: 2020 - 2022
Project Leader -
Prof CHEUNG Hin Tat
Capacity: PI (Prof CHEUNG Hin Tat)
Capacity: Co-I (Dr CHIN Chi On Andy, Dr LEE Kwing Lok Albert)
Year: 2017 - 2019
Project Leader -
Dr WANG Lixun
Capacity: PI (Dr WANG Lixun)
Capacity: Co-I (Prof CHEUNG Hin Tat, Dr KATAOKA Shin)
- A Collaborative Research on Digital Humanities in Cantonese
Project Leader - Dr CHIN Chi On Andy
Year: 2017 - 2018
Project Leader -
Dr CHIN Chi On Andy
Capacity: PI
- Enhancing English Reading Skills of Children Living in Poverty by E-books: A Randomized Experimental Study
Project Leader - Dr MA Qing
Year: 2018 - 2019
Project Leader -
Dr MA Qing
Capacity: Co-I
- A keyword study of novice and expert researchers’ research reports related to language studies/education
Project Leader - Dr MA Qing - Corpus-based feature analyses of Hong Kong/Mainland university students’ spoken English
Project Leader - Dr CHEN Hsueh Chu Rebecca
Year: 2014 - 2015
Project Leader -
Dr MA Qing
Capacity: PI (Dr MA Qing)
Capacity: Co-I (Dr CHIN Chi On Andy, Dr LUK Pei Sui Zoe)
Year: 2014 - 2015
Project Leader -
Dr CHEN Hsueh Chu Rebecca
Capacity: PI (Dr CHEN Hsueh Chu Rebecca)
Capacity: Co-I (Dr LEE Fung King Jackie, Dr WANG Lixun)
- Enhancing students’ professional development and knowledge exchange in translation via Mahara
Project Leader - Dr LIU Fung Ming Christy - Revamp of the corpus-based online pronunciation learning system and acoustic analysis of spoken learner corpus for Cantonese learners of Mandarin
Project Leader - Dr CHEN Hsueh Chu Rebecca - Enhancing Learners’ Self-regulated Skills Mediated by Mobile Technologies for Language Learning
Project Leader - Dr MA Qing
Year: 2020 - 2021
Project Leader -
Dr LIU Fung Ming Christy
Capacity: PI
Year: 2020 - 2021
Project Leader -
Dr CHEN Hsueh Chu Rebecca
Capacity: PI
Year: 2019 - 2021
Project Leader -
Dr MA Qing
Capacity: PI
- Development of Teaching and Learning Materials for a Professional Course Involving Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Project Leader - Dr CHIN Chi On Andy - Lesson Study of Grammar Instruction in Schools
Project Leader - Prof LEE Fung King Jackie
Year: 2019 - 2020
Project Leader -
Dr CHIN Chi On Andy
Capacity: PI
Year: 2019 - 2020
Project Leader -
Prof LEE Fung King Jackie
Capacity: PI