CHAN Hoi Wing (Part-time)

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CHUI Sze Yan Amy

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DAI Binbin Amy

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JIANG Changsheng Bruce

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LEUNG Ming Ming Grace

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LI Qian Christina

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PAN Ping Cathy

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REN Hongtao

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WONG Suzanne Shu-shan (Part-time)

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CAI Jing Luna

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HUANG Ze Ping Dora

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LEE Shuk Ling Candy (Gender Studies)

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LIN Shuyang Sylvia

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WONG Wing Sze Janice

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BA (distinction): Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Research topic:

Exploring task-internal and task-external readiness: the effects of topic familiarity and strategic planning in task performance at different proficiency levels.

Publications:

Bei, Xiaoyue. (in press). The effects of writing task repetition and teacher feedback on writing quality and fluency among students of different proficiency levels. (paper in Chinese). Modern Foreign Languages.

Bei, Xiaoyue. (2009). A report of the effects of topic familiarity and strategic planning on task performance by L2 learners of different proficiency levels. Paper presented at the 3rd Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, LancasterUniversity, Sept. 13-16, 2009.
(Winner: the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Student Bursary Award, Ranking No.1)

Bei, Xiaoyue & Li, Donghai. (2008). A review on recent development of peer review in L2 writing. (paper in Chinese). Journal of Mudanjiang University. 17 (12): 143-146.

I obtained my B.A. in English, M. Phil. in Applied English Linguistics, and M.S.Sc. in Applied Social Research from CUHK. After my graduation with the M. S. Sc. in 2007, I worked as a research assistant in the Faculty of Education, and later in the Department of Sociology at CUHK. My research interests are adult education, continuing education, and language and identity.

Ms Amy Chui obtained her Bachelor of Arts in English and her Master of Philosophy in Applied English Linguistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before returning to the English department to study for her doctorate, she was an assistant lecturer at the Hong Kong Community College of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her doctoral thesis is about Hong Kong students' use of syntactic features in speech and writing.

BA (Xi'an University of Technology)
MA (X'an Jiaotong University)

Research Interests:

Second language acquisition, individual differences in language learning

Conference:

(2009, September). Re-examining Individual Differences in Working Memory, Learner Awareness of L2 Forms and L2 Development through Recasts on Task-Basked Interaction. Paper presented at the 3rd international conference on TBLT, Lancaster, U.K.

My research interest is mainly centered on second language acquisition, pragmatics and corpus linguistics. I did my undergraduate study with a major on English at Sichuan International Studies University (SISU) and graduate study on Applied linguistics at SunYat-senUniversity. After graduation, I became an English teacher at college and had worked at the Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai for four years before being admitted to this doctoral program at CUHK.

I earned my BA from Central China Normal University and MA from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. I taught College English before arriving at CUHK to do my PhD research. My research interests are language learning motivation, English as an international language and its influence on English learning and teaching. The PhD thesis I am working on is The L2 self, motivation and globalization: A perspective of mainland China.

Grace Leung is currenly a Ph.D student in Applied English Linguistics. She holds a B.A. (Hons) in English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University, an M.A. in Linguistics and an M.Phil in Applied English Linguistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include phonetics, phonology, sociophonetics and Hong Kong English.

Cathy Pan obtained her BA degree from Zhengzhou University in 2002. She taught for two years at a private institution in China. Subsequently, she obtained a masters degree in TESOL at the University of Bristol. Her research interests are in the areas of Interlanguage Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, CMC (computer-mediated communication), and Linguistic Politeness. Her PhD project investigates pragmatic production and perception of native and non-native English speaking students who make status-unequal requests in email communications.

BA, PGCE (Sichuan International Studies University); MEd TESOL (with Distinction, Bristol University)

Research topic:

Rater variation in language testing, particularly the interaction between the rater and other test facets

Conference:

Washback or Fairness? Insights from the Criterion-irrelevant Factors in the Assessment of Cambridge YLE Speaking Test. 30th LTRC of the International Language Testing Association. Hangzhou, China (June, 2008)

Research Project:

Research assistant, the ICELite project (PI: Professor Gerald Nelson)

Vivien Chu Weiyi is a first-year M.Phil student in the Applied English Linguistics programme. She has an interest in the field of second language acquisition. She received her BA and MA degrees at Nanjing University, PR China, majoring in English literature and linguistics. Previously, she taught English at tertiary institutions in Macau and Mainland China.

I received my B.A. degree in English language and literature from Sun Yat-sen University, China. My research interests are in the areas of second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, attention and awareness in language learning, L3 acquisition, multilingualism and cross-linguistic influence. I am currently working on an exploratory study on cross-linguistic influence in third language comprehension.

Dora Huang was a teacher of English in South China Normal University (SCNU) after having obtained her B.A from Guangzhou University in 2002. She taught College English in the first year. Subsequently, she began working in the SCNU Joint Programmes with RMIT University and the University of Alberdeen, where she taught English for Academic Purposes to undergraduates who were preparing for further study at universities in Australia and the UK.

Between 2003 and 2005, she studied in a part-time graduate program in English linguistics and literature in South China Normal University, and obtained her MA in 2005. In 2005, she received CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) training in Melbourne, Australia.

Her research interests are in corpus linguistics and language teaching.

Lee Shuk Ling Candy received her Bachelor of Arts degree in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was a major in English and a minor in French. Currently she is a year 2 Mphil student in the Gender Studies programme and the Applied English Linguistics programme. Her research interests lie on sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, feminism, and gender and sexualities. 

BA: Central South University (China)
MA: CUHK (Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages)

My research interests lie in the area of second language acquisition, specifically in the L2 acquisition of English grammar and phonology. I am also interested in sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. At present, I am exploring the topic of the acquisition of English tense-aspect system through the comparison of different L2 groups.

Kelvin Lui has obtained his B.A. (English) in CUHK. He is interested areas such as World Englishes, English in the global context, ethnography and the interplay of language and identity. In his (proposed) M. Phil. research, he hopes to look at the language maintenance of the Tamil secondary school students in Hong Kong through the framework of  Domain Analysis.

I obtained my B.A. at CUHK, with a major in English and minor in Linguistics. I am fascinated by the sounds of language, and I am especially interested in English and Cantonese sound segments. The title of my research topic is “Training the perception and production of English vowels /e/ and /æ/ by Cantonese-speaking secondary school students”.

BA (CUHK),
MA (The University of York)

Viona is currently working on British Romantic poetry and modern Chinese prose. Her research interests include spirituality, the sense of place, and the female voice in literature. She is interested in creative writing, particularly in the genres of short stories and poetry.

Huang Zhongfeng received her BA in English Language and Literature in 2006, and her MA in American Literature in 2009 both from PekingUniversity. Her research interests in literature include Canadian women fictions, Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American fictions (especially Nathaniel Hawthorne), Victorian and modernist fictions. She is currently focusing on Virginia Woolf's quest of the relationship between gender and literature.

Li Jun received his BA in English from the Central South University and MA in English Language & Literature from the University of International Business and Economics. His major research interest is drama, especially concerning rendering drama from page to stage and from the West to China. The research he is currently doing is on Shakespeare and popular culture in China.

Meg obtained her Bachelor of Arts in English from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has always been keen on overseas studying experiences. She attended Queen’s University as a Literature Major for a full-year exchange program; she also went to University of Cambridge and University of Warwick for short literature courses. Now she is doing her MPhil in Gender Studies, with English (Literary Studies) as her subject department. Her research topic is Challenges to Gender Assumptions in the 19th Century Novel: The Representation of Women in Jane Austen’s Emma and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

I obtained my undergraduate degree (B.A. in English, Hons I) at CUHK in 2008. I also graduated from the M.A. program in Applied English Linguistics at CUHK in 2009. My research interests include twentieth-century fiction, literature and film, and postmodernism. My tentative research topic concerns the construction and autonomy of the self and the depiction of dystopia in postwar literature. Provisional selected works for my study include Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

I received my B.A. in English from CUHK in 2007. One year after graduation, I decided to look for the opportunities to deepen my knowledge and engagement in literary studies. The supportive environment of the English Department, the fun and stimulating programmes and the range of exciting events such as Shakespeare Festival all made me want to come back and continue my studies here. My research is in the area of contemporary American literature, with a focus on the literary and cultural scene of the Beat Generation.

I am currently a second-year postgraduate student in the MPhil program in Literary Studies. My research interest is cognitive poetics, especially cognitive metaphors in poetry.

I received my B.A. from Brigham Young University-Hawaii in 2007, majoring in English and minoring in Humanities. My interests at that time included 19th century British literature, Asian literature, and literary criticism. My final thesis was on the comparison of the concept of chivalry as presented in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and the Chinese novel The Water Margin. As I enter my second year of my M.Phil studies here in CUHK, I find my interests diversifying, and my research currently is on the topic of the laughter of our age, as induced by works such as Beckett's Endgame and Pinter's Birthday Party.

Eva Leung received her BA with a double major in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong. She is currently working on autobiographical fiction, focusing on the works of Charlotte Brontë and Margaret Atwood. Apart from reading and creative writing, she has a wide range of interests, including learning foreign languages, singing, playing the piano and horseback riding.

My research interest is Romanticism, especially Lord Byron's works. I am fascinated by his wit and humor in Don Juan. I also enjoy reading Jane Austen and Henry James.

Education background:

Fields of Interest:

I am pursuing an M. Phil degree in Gender Studies. My research topic is the representation of women in the novels of Murakami Haruki. Language and literature are part of my life; I like reading Jane Austen, but (as if it couldn’t be more opposite) I also love Sidney Sheldon’s action thrillers. I can speak Japanese and French and my ultimate target is to learn Tibetan and Finnish.