Teaching

Courses that I have (co-)taught: 

• Asian Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca in Asia (UG level)

• Cantonese Linguistics (PG level)

• Chinese Rhetoric (UG level)

• Chinese Studies Overseas (UG level)

• Co-curricular Service Learning Course (UG level)

• Introduction to Linguistics (UG level)

• Language and the Human Footprint (UG level)

• Language and Society (UG and PG levels)

• Langugage, Society and Cognition (PG level)

• Sociolinguistics (UG level)

• Spoken and Written Discourse (UG and PG level)

• Structure of Chinese (PG level)

I have also given guest lectures on the following topics

• Quantitative and qualitative research methods in linguistics research  (Postgraduate level students)

• Preparation of research proposals (postgraduate level students)

• Cantonese grammar to in-service teachers

Research student training (as chief supervisor)

• Hu Xiaojuan,  A Study on the Grammar of Lianhua Gan: From Synchrony to Diachrony (Viva Committee members: Professor Hilary Chappell, Professor Li Xuping, Professor Kwok Bit-chee, Dr Shin Kataoka), October 2019

• Dina Kucherbayeva (admitted in September 2019)

• Ji Yaxuan (admitted in September 2021)

Evidence-based capstone project supervision [Master of Science in Educational Speech-Language Pathology and Learning Disabilities] (as chief supervisor)

• Cheng Yu Yan Yoyo. The use of the sentence final particle aa3 by typically developing Cantonese-speaking preschool children, 2020/21

• Wong Hei Shing Prisca. Expression of additivity by Cantonese pre-school children, 2020/21

• Yiu Shuk Lan Addie. Semantic and pragmatic comprehension of the hearsay evidential marker wo5 in Cantonese-speaking school-aged children with high-functioning autism, 2020/21

Dissertation / Thesis examiner

• Kan Wai Him, Vincent, Can Language Policy Outcome be Predicted? A Matrix Approach to Language Policy Analysis – Using Hong Kong from 1997 to 2010 as a Test Case (EdD dissertation supervisor: Professor Andy Kirkpatrick), The Education University of Hong Kong, August 2011.

• Liu Hongchao, A Quantitative Study on the Lexical Aspect and Viewpoint Aspect in Mandarin Chinese (Doctoral dissertation supervisor: Professor Huang Chu-Ren), Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, August 2018

• Zhi Yuying, The Development of Periphrastic Causatives in Chinese Learners of English (Doctoral dissertation supervisor: Professor Cheung Hintat), Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong, September 2019

• Lv, Shanshan. A Reference Grammar of Caijia: An Unclassified Language of Guizhou, China (Doctoral dissertation supervisor: Professor Hilary Chappell). École des hautes études en sciences sociales, July 2020

• Lai Yik Po. 漢語的等比句──方言比較和類型學的視角 (Doctoral dissertation supervisor: Professor Kwok Bit-chee),  Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 2020.

• Chen Jingwen.  To the people, food is foremost: Cultural conceptualizations of Cantonese food-related idioms (Doctoral dissertation supervisor: Dr Marc Xu), Linguistics and English Language Programme, Monash University, May 2021

• Wong Kam Pang. 香港語言生活中的漢語方言(1900—1974) (MPhil thesis supervisor: Professor Kwok Bit-chee), Department of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 2022

• Hui Man Shan.  以語言接觸形成的干擾解讀臻攝合口字在粵語今讀開合相混的現象 (MPhil thesis supervisor: Professor Richard VanNess Simmons), School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong, August 2022

• Liao Hanbo.  The Formation of Lingnan Linguistic Traits: Typological Structures and Diachronic Issues (doctoral dissertation supervisor: Professor Stephen Matthews), Department of Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong, December 2022

• Lung Hak Kit. 廣東陽山粵語的韻母變化現象研究 (MPhil thesis supervisor: Dr Zhao Ming), School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong, March 2023

• Kevin Thomas Rey. Curriculum Intentions, Classroom Realities: The Learning and Teaching of English Reading to Hong Kong Secondary Students (EdD thesis supervisor: Dr Ruth Wong), Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong, April 2023