Faculty & Teaching Team

Faculty & Teaching Team

TESL Concentration

Instructor Research Interest(s)
Dr. Amy Chi Teaching English for Academic Purposes, Pedagogical Lexicography, Dictionary use training for ESL/EFL teachers, Second language vocabulary acquisition, Phraseology, Lexicology, Language and Culture
Dr. Anisa Cheung Technology-enhanced language education, Language teacher cognition, Pedagogy
Dr. Nora Hussin Technology-enhanced language learning, Scholarship of teaching and learning, Observations of teaching, Discourse analysis, Activity theory
Dr. Aditi Jhaveri Sociolinguistics, Discourse analysis, Genre studies, EAP pedagogy
Dr. Yılmaz Köylü Theoretical linguistics, Second language acquisition, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Dr. Cathy Pan Teaching English as a second or foreign language, Applied English linguistics, Speech acts and linguistics politeness, Language and intercultural communication, Intercultural pragmatics
Dr. Christie Law Blingualism and multilingualism, Phonetics, Sociolinguistics, World Englishes
Dr. William Lee Professional and Corporate Communication, Cross-cultural and intercultural communication, Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics
Dr. Benjamin Leung Corporate and Public Communication, Assessment and Testing, Independent Language Learning, Intercultural Communication, Interdisciplinary Humour Studies, Mass Media, Motivation
Dr. Polung Li Course and Curriculum Design/Evaluation, ELT Materials Writing, Teacher Training
Prof. James Simpson Language and migration, language education, multilingualism, language policy, creative inquiry in applied linguistics
Prof. Melinda Whong Second language acquisition, English for academic and specific purposes, Second language teaching and learning, Applied linguistics
Dr. KY Wu Academic writing, Genres in higher education, Language pedagogy, Academic and specialized vocabulary, Materials development
Dr. Siyang Zhou Second Language Acquisition, Study Abroad, Vocabulary, Formulaic Language, Usage-based Approach, English-Medium Instruction

 

TCSL Concentration

Instructor Research Interest(s)
Dr. Sheila Liang Teaching Chinese as a foreign language, Language teaching methodology and curriculum design, School Improvement, School leadership particularly in the context of mainland China and Hong Kong
Prof. Quentin Qin Phonetics, Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Perception and Processing of Chinese tones
Prof. Carine Yiu Chinese linguistics with a focus on Cantonese, history of Chinese dialects, syntax, semantics, typology
Dr. Su Yuan Prosody, Phonetics, Phonology
Prof. Min Zhang Chinese linguistics, Chinese historical grammar, Chinese dialectology, cognitive semantics and syntax
Dr. Yin Zhong Lexical Semantics, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Metaphor in Communication, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language