Assistant Professor & Associate Head, Department of Early Childhood Education
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Lam, Ho Cheong is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Early Childhood Education, the Education University of Hong Kong and is the Programme Leader of Chinese Language Enhancement Programme for Kindergarten Teachers and Professional Development Programme on the Teaching of Chinese Language for Non-Chinese Speaking Children. He was also former Associate Head (Programme Development) of the department. He began to work on the area of children’s learning of Chinese characters as a final year project in his undergraduate study. His Ph.D. thesis was titled Orthographic Awareness for Learning Chinese Characters, for which he received Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund Fellowship for Postgraduate Research Students and Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student. He was one of the founders of the Dragonwise Projects at HKU, which are widely known by the primary school Chinese language teachers. While at EduHK, he has gained more than ten years of experience in teacher education for early childhood education.
Expertise:
Learning and teaching Chinese characters
Phenomenology
Variation theory of learning
Instructional design
Design of educational software