Overview
In response to the Central Government’s Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), the Faculty of Humanities (FHM) at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) strives to build impactful collaborations with GBA institutions and organizations to promote the advancement of the field of humanities, in areas such as language studies, literature, culture, and history. Through collaborations with GBA partners, FHM aims to serve as a force to advance teaching and learning, research, and knowledge transfer activities related to the field of humanities in the Greater Bay Area, and provide our students with diversified learning experiences in the GBA.
Our Footprint in GBA FHM commits to increase its social impact in Greater Bay Area (GBA) with longstanding strengths in research and knowledge transfer (R&KT) in the areas of Language Studies, Literature, Culture, and History through offering interdisciplinary programmes, holding international conferences, and setting up research ties with universities in GBA. Furthermore, we strive for excellence in research and academic development to impact positively on Hong Kong society and beyond in terms of teacher education, literary and multicultural development. With our strong presence and connectivity within GBA, platforms and opportunities have been established to extend our impact across GBA.  Collaboration and research platforms in GBA Our researchers have designed and implemented a wide range of research studies and joint research projects to build closer ties with GBA partners. For example, recognized by the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) and the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme (JRS) [ANR/RGC Joint Research Scheme] 2022/23, Dr Wang Cong has been awarded funding of HK$1.95 million to support her project ‘Language Contact and Areal Diffusion of Sinitic Languages in the Greater Bay Area (GBA)’. Various partnerships have been forged across GBA to promote joint research activities with GBA universities.  Knowledge transfer (KT) activities in GBA With our expertise in Language, Literature and Culture, our researchers are eager to transfer the knowledge to the community and GBA. Our KT activities include the creation of online platforms (e.g. the ‘Corpus-Aided Platform for Language Teachers’ ), organisation of public lecture series on language teaching/learning, international knowledge transfer forum, conferences, workshop series etc, to cater to the needs of participants with diverse backgrounds including researchers, teacher educators, in/pre-service teachers, research students and parents. These activities attracted participants not only from Hong Kong and GBA, but also those from other parts in China’s mainland. The KT activities not only act as a transfer of knowledge between our researchers and society, they also strengthen our research capacity and establish new research networks in GBA. Students from EdUHK and other GBA cities have benefited directly from our various KT activities, as many of them participated in these activities and contributed actively to the exchange of academic ideas.  |
GBA Alliances
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance for Chinese Language Education
In order to improve the level of collaboration in Chinese language education in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, bring together the related research strengths of elite universities in the three places, promote exchanges and collaborations, as well as co-construct and share resources, EDUHK and Jinan University and Macau University of Science and Technology jointly established the 'Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau University Chinese Language Education Alliance'. The alliance operates under the framework of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance, and its members cooperate in personnel training, scientific research, and collaborative innovation.
Partners
- Jinan University
- Macau University of Scienece and Technology
The Southern Alliance for International Chinese Education
The responsibilities and objectives of the alliance include promoting exchanges and collaborations among member institutions in the areas of theory and research in international Chinese education, professional consultation services, teacher training, high-level international Chinese personnel training, international Chinese education resources development, national/regional investigations, as well as initiatives conducive to the development of international Chinese education.
The alliance aims to pool the strengths of all member institutions and encourage them to complement each other, to integrate with each other, and to innovate together, in order to jointly serve the new era of international Chinese education. The alliance was highly valued by the Ministry of Education and the Department of Education of Guangdong Province.
Partners
- South China Normal University
- University of Macau
- Sun Yat-sen University
- Shenzhen University
- Jinan University
- Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
- Macau University of Science and Technology
- Guangzhou University
- Guangzhou City Construction College
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau University Alliance in Foreign Language and Literature
The Faculty of Humanities and Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML) look forward to working with other sister universities who are part of the in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau University Alliance in Foreign Languages and Literature to strengthen exchanges in teaching and academic aspects, and jointly promote the study of foreign languages (mainly English) and literature and other related disciplines in the Greater Bay Area. Last but not least, FHM and LML aim to collaborate with GBA partners on high-tech projects with international and Chinese characteristics.
Partner
- Sun Yat-sen University
GBA Initiatives on Research
Dr JIN Jing (As Key Member)
Department of Chinese Language Studies
January 2024
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Dr ZHANG Ling(As Co-I )
Department of Chinese Language Studies
2023
粵西北粵語主要分佈在連山、連南、連州、陽山、封開、懷集、德慶、廣寧、四會等九縣市。本課題對上述地區的本土粵語整體語音面貌進行調查，並嘗試探討與周邊語言方言接觸下的語音演變機制。
Dr CHEUNG Lin Hong(As Co-I )
Department of Chinese Language Studies / Centre for Research on Chinese Language and Education
December 2022
本計劃屬於國家語委「十三五」科研規劃2019年度項目。由廣州大學屈哨兵教授主持，成員包括禤健聰、王海蘭教授等廣州大學學者，及港澳其他大學友校成員參與。
Department of English Language Education
December 2022
The feedback literacy scale has been developed and the research team will be pilot testing and refining the questionnaire. Manuscript writing will follow.
Centre for Research on Linguistics and Language Studies
23 to 24 April 2022
Grounded on the clinical language assessment system developed by Prof Cheung Hin Tat. The workshop was pitched to health professionals in speech-language rehabilitating units in the Mainland and interested staff members at EdUHK.
Dr MAK Wing Wah Pauline (As PI)
Department of English Language Education
June 2022
The aim of this project is to develop assessment literacy in formative assessment (FA) in EFL writing among principals, teachers and students through school-university partnerships in support of the implementation and sustainability of FA in writing classrooms. The project ended in June 2022 and the project team is currently working on report writing, data analysis and manuscript writing.
Dr MAK Wing Wah Pauline (As PI)
Department of English Language Education
September 2023
The project aims to examine the effectiveness of the use of portfolio assessment (PA) with a focus on Assessment as Learning (AaL) in improving students’ writing abilities, investigate the attitude of teachers and students towards the use of PA to promote AaL in the teaching and learning of writing, as well as explore the challenges teachers face and support they need in its implementation through a year-long integration of AaL-oriented portfolios as an assessment innovation in elementary writing classrooms. The two schools implemented PA for one academic year and data collection has been completed.
Dr YU Baohua(as PI)
Department of English Language Education
21 December 2021
The sudden outbreak of COVID-19, which has presented great challenges to pedagogy, has catalyzed the transition of teaching and learning to online mode. With the aim to examine the facilitating factors in positive learning outcomes in online learning environments, this study employed survey questionnaires to collect data among university students from different universities in Hong Kong, Macao and Mainland China. It was found that instructors played an important role and learners’ self-efficacy and self-regulation skills were also important in explaining positive learning outcomes in online courses. Pedagogical implications for teachers, educators and students and university policy implications are discussed.
Department of English Language Education
2021
This study proposes a framework for evidence source evaluation (ESE), and develops a collaborative learning design using this framework to enhance learners’ ESE ability.
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies
2023
( published by Cultural Affairs Bureau (Macao SAR) )
A monograph entitled Introducing Macanese Modernist Poetry will be published by Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government (the Bureau) in early 2023. The book offers recent theoretical debates alongside useful analysis of the field of Macanese modernism, which is a direct research output of a project funded by the Bureau’s “Academic Research Grant”.
Dr GU Ming Yue Michelle (as PI)
Department of English Language Education
May 2022 - April 2024
This study aims to investigate the associations of different constructs underlying DL competence with digital literacy practices in teaching and teacher identity (task perception and self-efficacy of applying digital applications in teaching).
Dr MA Qing and her team
(Drs WANG Lixun, Jackie LEE and Rebecca CHEN)
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
2025
This project will provide a two-phase corpus-based training for in-service teachers in primary, secondary and vocational schools in the Greater Bay Area, including cities such as Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Huizhou. Through the development and implementation of workshop series, online self-learning materials, teacher professional training and consultancy provided for schools, this proposed project is expected to develop school teachers’ understanding and implementation of an innovative corpus-based language pedagogy that is developed co-jointly from two areas, i.e., corpus linguistics and educational technologies, with the long term benefits of maximising school teachers’ potential in sustainable self-learning for professional development and effectiveness in teaching.
Department of English Language Education
2021
This case study focused on two groups of undergraduate students with different degrees of participation in discussions – one active group and one silent group – in a course on English for academic purposes (EAP) at a Chinese university. The findings suggest that the students utilized a series of reading strategies and drew on the ideational and linguistic resources shared within the group to build comprehension. Three key processes for comprehension co-construction were found: (1) paraphrasing to contribute personal understanding, (2) elaborating to clarify meanings, and (3) summarizing to build consensus. Pedagogical implications concerning the instruction and task design for collaborative academic reading are discussed.
GBA Initiatives on Knowledge Transfer
- At the symposium, experts and scholars from the Greater Bay Area will speak about their research findings and teaching experience, and their exploration of new directions of research in Chinese language education. Furthermore, there will be a Student Paper Award competition for pre-service teachers of Chinese as a second language on the topics of curriculum design, teaching materials, teaching methods and assessments for Chinese as a second language in the Greater Bay Area, the linguistic and cultural features of the Greater Bay Area, and the strategies to address those features in teaching Chinese as a second language.
Department of Chinese Language Studies / Centre for Research on Chinese Language and Education
Shenzhen / Macao
Ongoing
Partnership (Institutions/organisations)
- CHL & CRCLE, EdUHK (Host)
- Shenzhen University (Collaborate)
- Macau University of Science and Technology (Collaborate)
- The Undergraduate Academic Conference on Humanities (UAC) has been organised annually since 2017 to nurture young research talents in humanities. Undergraduate/Sub-degree students of humanities from higher institutions in the local and Greater China Region (including the GBA region) are encouraged to participate in the UAC to facilitate academic exchanges.
Guangzhou
17 June 2022
Partnership (Institutions/organisations)
- Guangdong University of Finance (Conference Panel Chair)
- Dr. Shi Jianguo, from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau, has been invited to give a professional development talk to Putonghua Enhancement Programme (PEP) team. The topic of his talk is "Teaching Putonghua in Greater Bay Area in the near future", which provides new insights for the teaching material development of the PEP.
Centre for Language in Education (CLE)
Macao
5 May 2022
Partnership (Institutions/organisations)
- University of Macau
- Dr Au Chung To' s weekly column, “Happy Croissant”, appears every Monday in Macao Daily News. Spanned a decade, her weekly column centers around travelling, daily life, literature, and films. Her book titled A Collection of Greek Stars(《希臘點點星集》), which is a collection of her weekly columns over the years, was published by Macao Daily News.
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies
Macao
Recurrent activity
Partnership (Institutions/organisations)
- Macao Daily
- This project builds on the research expertise of corpus linguistics of a corpus team at LML/FHM. The corpus team has successfully established an innovative language pedagogy - a corpus-based language pedagogy (CBLP). In the past years, great success has been achieved in providing CBLP training to both pre- and in-service English teachers in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay area (GBA). Now we would like to reinforce this CBLP approach and extend its educational impact from GBA to a broad international English teacher community. Specifically, we will provide CBLP training for English teachers in Hong Kong, mainland China (especially GBA), and other countries/regions (Taiwan, Macau, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, etc.).
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies
Foshan / other areas in Mainland China
31 August 2022
Partnership (Institutions/organisations)
- EdUHK
- Beijing Foreign Studies University
- As English language education and applied linguistics are gaining momentum in the GBA area, we hope that through this symposium we can strengthen academic exchanges and collaborations with GBA partners to further advance the field of English language education and applied linguistics.
Vice President (Academic) and Provost / Faculty of Humanities
Guangdong / Macao
7 December 2022
Partnership (Institutions/organisations)
- City University of Macau
- South China Normal University
- Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) held an online award ceremony for the third Greater Bay Area Life Education Writing Competition on 9 June 2022. The event attracted more than 200 schools and families. The competition’s themes were ‘gratitude’ and ‘love’ and received over 12,000 entries from over 500 schools in the Greater Bay Area, including Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Zhongshan. In his opening address at the ceremony, Professor John Lee Chi-kin, Vice President (Academic) and Provost, said, “As a university focusing on teacher education in Hong Kong, EdUHK adheres to its Education-plus approach to promote values and life education in society. Professor John Erni, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities (FHM), added that gratitude and love are also universal values.Leading experts, including Professor Wang Ning from Beijing Normal University, were invited to act as consultants for the competition. For details and the awardee list, please refer to the CHL website.
Department of Chinese Language Studies
Hong Kong / Macao / Dongguan / Shenzhen / Huizhou / Guangzhou / Zhaoqing / Jiangmen / Zhongmen / Foshan / Zhaoqing
Summer 2021/22
(Award Ceremony: 9 June 2022)
Partnership (Institutions/organisations)
- Hong Kong Principals Professional Development Association
- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Primary and Secondary School Principals Association
- The Hong Kong New Seedling International Education Group
- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Education Research Association
Programme-related GBA Initiatives
- Students are required to participate in the Mandatory Internship Programme in their summer after Year 3 either in Hong Kong or the Greater Bay Area in order to fulfill the graduation requirement. The Internship aims to enable students to integrate and apply in real-life settings the knowledge and skills gained in their studies. The Internship also prepares students to handle challenges they may encounter in real work situations, and provides opportunities for them to consider their future career directions.
Mission Hills (TBC)
Shenzhen
Recurrent in every summer
- A Major Core course titled "English for Cross-Cultural Communication in the Greater Bay Area and Beyond" with a GBA focus will be offered. This course aims to strengthen students’ English speaking and writing abilities by engaging with a wide range of original sources. It also prepares them with enhanced competitiveness and international competence for living and working in a cross-cultural context. In addition, the course will cover practical skills for communication and translation in diverse cultural situations and for critically analysing different culture-specific rules of the use of language.
BA (Hons) in English Studies and Digital Communication
N/A
Recurrent course activity to be offered in every Semester I
- Students will participate in one to two field trips each academic year to visit prestigious tech companies in Shenzhen (or any other city in the GBA) as an experiential learning event. It will be a day trip without staying overnight. A cultural tour to nearby historical monuments, museums or spots related to the programme nature such as OCT-LOFT Creative Cultural Park, Shenzhen Science and Technology Park in the Nanshan District will also be arranged. (tentative)
BA (Hons) in English Studies and Digital Communication
Shenzhen
Recurrent activity to be offered in every year
- Field Experience (FE) is an invaluable learning opportunity for the programme participants. During the FE period, the participants progressively conducted independent classroom or online teaching with a considerable level of collaboration with their peers in terms of choice of teaching approaches, task design, materials resourcing and preparation.
• School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong
• The ISF Academy
• ESF Wu Kai Sha International Kindergarten
• Malvern College Hong Kong
• Han Academy
• SPACE, The University of Hong Kong
• Sha Tin Junior School
• International School of Nanshan Shenzhen
• Zhuhai International School
Hong Kong/Shenzhen/Zhuhai
Recurrent activity to be offered in every year