Prof. GONG Gwendolyn

	Title	Professor
	Tel	2609 7462
	Office	Fung King Hey 104
	Profile	B.A., M.A. (Mississippi), Ph.D. (Purdue)
	E-mail	ggong@cuhk.edu.hk

Administrative Posts

• Editor, Asian Journal of English Language Teaching
• Undergraduate Linguistics Coordinator

Research Interests

• Oral history and survivor narratives, literary non-fiction, sociolinguistics, gender and language, discourse analysis, rhetorical theory and writing, psycholinguistics, technical editing.

Selected Publications

• "When Mississippi Chinese Talk." 5th ed. In Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Ed. Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen. Oxford: Oxford UP, forthcoming.
  
  
• A Writer's Repertoire 3: Nuts and Bolts. Co-authored with Sam Dragga. Singapore: Cengage, 2009.
  
  
• A Writer's Repertoire 2: Aims and Purposes. Co-authored with Sam Dragga. Singapore: Cengage, 2009.
  
  
• "An Alternative Question and Possible Answers: Making Local Research Publications Accessible Internationally." TESOL Quarterly, 43.4 (December 2009), pp.696-700.
  
  
• "Working Memory, Phonemic Coding Ability and Foreign Language Aptitude: Potential for Construction of Specific Language Aptitude Tests¡XThe Case of Cantonese." Co-authored with Erica Chan and Peter Skehan. Ilha do Desterro, [Special issue on Recent Developments in SLA, forthcoming].
  
  
• A Writer's Repertoire 1: Rhetoric and Writing. Co-authored with Sam Dragga. Singapore: Cengage, 2009.
  
  
• "Hong Kong's Multiple Constructions of SARS." Co-authored with John H. Powers. Ed. John H. Powers and Xiao Xiaosui. The Social Construction of SARS.Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008, pp. 17-32.
  
  
• "'SARS' versus 'Atypical Pneumonia': Inconsistencies in Hong Kong's Public Health Warnings and Disease-Prevention Campaign." Co-authored with Sam Dragga. Ed. John H. Powers and Xiao Xiaosui. The Social Construction of SARS. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008, pp. 53-68.
  
  
• "Daddy's Store: My Schoolhouse." In Growing Up in Mississippi, Ed. Judy Tucker and Charline R. McCord. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008, pp. 174-181.
  
  
• "Gender and Literacies: The Korean 'Comfort Women's' Testimonies." In Women and Literacy: Local and Global Inquiries for a New Century, Ed. Beth Daniell and Peter Mortensen. NCTE/LEA Literacy and Composition Research Series. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2007, pp. 159-173.
  
  
• "The Changing Use of Deference among the Mississippi Chinese." English Today 75, Vol. 19, No. 3 (July 2003), pp. 50-56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Research Projects

• Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (RGC Ref. No.: CUHK 44410)
  Voice of the Diaspora: An Analysis of Mississippi Chinese World War II Veterans' Narratives, $590, 928, 2011-2013.

• Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (RGC Ref. No.: CUHK 4707/05H), University Grants Committee, Developing Aptitude Tests Based on Second Language Acquisition, $555,968, 2005-2008, with Prof. Peter Skehan.

• In My Daddy's Store.
  A collection of creative nonfiction essays about the Mississippi Chinese. These narratives attempt to present the complex linguistic, cultural, educational, social, and economic dynamics of the American South's Caucasian, African-American, and Chinese community in the Mississippi Delta.

• "Transnational Goals and Practices of Composition: An International Exchange." Researchers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Hong Kong—Lisa Ede, Andrea Lunsford, Roz Ivanic, Lisa Ganobesik-Williams, Roger Graves, Jan Skillen, and Gwendolyn Gong—collaborate on issues relating to writing and rhetoric. The research group has made one joint conference presentation and one workshop; members are now producing a collaborative article.