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, “You could have said all this in Kazakh!”: Linguistic Achievements and Challenges for Kazakh after Thirty Years of Kazakhstan’s Independence (Viva committee members: Professor Wang Xiaomei, Professor Prof Anastassia Zabrodskaja, Dr Wang Lixun), March 2024
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
Bian Kewei. A Sociolinguistic Study on LCP of Chinese in Four Regions and Its Implication on Lexicography 兩岸四地漢語文白異讀的社會語言學研究及對辭典編纂的影響 (PhD dissertation supervisor: Dr Caesar Lun), Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong, September 2023
Yu Shing. A study of the Phonology and Chronological Strata of the Performance- Mandarin of Cantonese Opera 粵劇戲棚官話音系及歷史層次研究 (MPhil thesis supervisor, Professor Richard VanNess Simmons), School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong, September 2023
Zhu Yu. Negation in Xinchang Wu (MPhil thesis supervisor, Professor Robin Yang Ruowei), Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Shue Yan University, July 2024
Jiang Yuting. A Typological Study of Disposal Constructions in Sinitic Languages (PhD dissertation supervisor, Professor Zhang Min), Division of Humanities, School of Humanities and Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, August 2024
Yu Mingyang. A Comparative Study of Chinese Character Recognition by L2 Learners with Different L1 Writing Systems and Proficiency Levels 不同母語書寫系統與漢語水平的二語學習者對漢字識別的比較研究 (PhD dissertation supervisor, Professor Cecilia Chan Yuet Hung), Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong, June 2025
Wong Kam Pang. 吉隆坡粵語量名配搭的認知分析 (PhD dissertation supervisor: Professor Kwok Bit-chee), Department of Chinese and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 2025