General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) for the Faculty of Humanities 2018/19
- 2019
- Research
- Faculty of Humanities
In 2018/19, Faculty of Humanities secured five General Research Fund (GRF) and one Early Career Scheme (ECS).
Project Title/Description | Project Leader/Department |
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| General Research Fund (GRF) | |
The Identity Construction Experiences of Teachers of English to Young Learners in Mainland China
This project responds to the need for research into the teaching of English to young learners (TEYL), defined as children between the ages of 5-12. Despite the significant increase in popularity of TEYL globally, including mainland China, our knowledge of how TEYL is implemented, the attitudes of teachers, and the challenges they face is scant. This project, therefore, addresses this gap in our understanding of English language teaching and learning by exploring the experiences of one group of primary school English teachers in mainland China. A particular contribution of this project is to examine the experiences and perceptions of teachers of English to young learners using the theoretical lens of teacher identity. The results of this project will be of interest to policy makers, teacher educators, school authorities, researchers, and teachers of young learners themselves, both in mainland China and analogous educational settings worldwide.
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This project seeks to investigate how student teachers are prepared to teach Critical Thinking (CT) in a pre-service language teacher education program in Hong Kong. Adopting an ethnographic case study design and informed by an ecological perspective on teacher education, the project will explore how student teachers learn to teach CT in relation to their program coverage, coherence and applicability. The project will also draw on multiple perspectives from language teacher educators and program leaders/coordinators to discover how CT is integrated with their situated teacher education curricula. Such an ethnographic design not only can contribute to our understanding of CT, but can also generate insights into the dynamic, complex process of teacher learning across different sites, influenced by a range of institutional and socio-cultural factors. | |
This project investigates literary fields of Taiwan and Hong Kong in the 1960s.In 1967, Lin Haiyin founded Chun Wenxue literary journal in Taiwan. In the same year, its Hong Kong version was published by Wang Jingxi .Wang also introduced Wen Xing Cong Kan series from Taiwan via his Wen Yi Bookstore. It was owing to Hong Kong version of Wen Xing Cong Kan that Hong Kong readers could get a glimpse of the works of Yin Haiguang, Li Ao, Bo Yang, whose once banned works were difficult to access even in Taiwan. On the other hand, his poor management led to accusation of not paying royalties to the authors and infringements of copyrights. What Wang created from the mid1960s to 70s was a complicated case regarding cultural publishing. This project aims to investigate the significance of Wang Jingxi in the dissemination of literature across Hong Kong and Taiwan. | |
English is stress-timed while Chinese is syllable-timed, which makes English word stress placement difficult for Chinese learners of English. This project aims to develop assessment tasks to identify Chinese learners’ difficulties in English word stress placement in perception and production, design training programs to examine whether word stress can be acquired systematically, and conduct a teaching experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of the training programs in facilitating the learning of word stress. This project will generate substantial impact in both theory and practice. | |
Effective learning of second language (L2) vocabulary hinges on the learners’ ability to self-regulate their learning. However, little research interest has been shown in how students self-regulate when they are left on their own to explore L2 vocabulary learning mediated by mobile technologies. In this research, a self-regulated and personalised (SRP) vocabulary learning approach is developed and its effectiveness measured. This research aims to help students develop a heightened capacity for self-regulation to learn L2 vocabulary with mobile technologies more efficiently and effectively. This research adopts a mixed-method design. An experimental design is adopted to find out to what extent students can learn L2 vocabulary using the SRP approach in a mobile technology-mediated environment via a self-directed intervention for one semester. In addition, a multi-case study will be conducted to provide qualitative evidence to verify whether the self-directed SRP approach can lead to a heightened capacity for self-regulation. | |
Early Career Scheme (ECS) | |
黃庭堅（1045-1105）是型塑北宋詩禪的代表。其《山谷內集》詩逾七百首，以難解聞名。華人圈唯任淵（1090-1164）遍註，又唯錢鍾書（1910-1998）選註為其典範。然日禪萬里集九（1428-1507）《帳中香》不但以漢文遍註，在認識內集詩禪關係上亦具洞察。筆者藉其反思內集的內典化傾向，重新認識黃氏引領的宋型詩禪新風，探索近古中日詩禪的互動與共性。 | |
