FHM Researchers - Dr TAM Wing Yu Hugo
FHM Researchers - Dr TAM Wing Yu Hugo
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese Language Studies (CHL)
Research Area(s):
Language Education
My areas of research interest include heritage language use, classroom interaction, discourse analysis, and multilingualism with using qualitative research methods (including ethnomethodology, and linguistic ethnography). I have published my research in international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, International Journal of Multilingualism, English Today, Global Chinese, Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, and Chinese as a Second Language.
I welcome all potential research students with research interests on Chinese language education and sociolinguistics in East and Southeast Asian contexts, particularly Hong Kong and Singapore.
Selected Publications:
- Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2024). Sour soup, Tom Yum, or Dongyin? What does menu tell us about linguistic capital and multilingual development in contemporary Thailand? Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. Epub ahead of print.
- Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. & Tsang, Samuel, C. S. (2023). Cantonese culinary lexical interaction between Singapore and Hong Kong English: How can Sinograph shape translingual words with English today? English Today. Epub ahead of print.
- Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. & Kim, Sun-A. (2021). Strategies used in learning Chinese vocabulary by adolescent Mandarin-Korean bilinguals in Korea. International Journal of Multilingualism. Epub ahead of print.
- Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. & Tsang, Samuel, C. S. (2023). Towards a reconceptualisation of the Cantonese lexicon in contemporary Hong Kong: Classificatory possibilities and their implications for the local Chinese-as-an-Additional-Language curriculum. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 26 (4), 428-456.
- Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2021). 「粵語語法學習概覽」的建構：廣東話第二語言語法學甚麽？何時教？ [Development of the Cantonese Grammar Profile: Reconsidering pedagogical sequence of grammar items in Cantonese as a second language]. Chinese as a Second Language, 56 (3), 209-228.
- Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2021). 「粵語語法學習概覽」嘅建構：廣東話第二語言語法學乜嘢？幾時教？ [Development of the Cantonese Grammar Profile: Reconsidering pedagogical sequence of grammar items in Cantonese as a second language]. Chinese as a Second Language, 56 (3).
- Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2021). 「是」字句和「是......的」句的教學語法：以九套國際學校中文教材為例 [What grammar explanations do textbooks offer? On the pedagogical grammar of shi and shi...de in IGCSE Mandarin textbooks for adolescent learners in international schools]. Global Chinese, 7(2), 143-157.
- Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2021). 香港粵語利益性接收標記「多謝」的話語功能及其語法浮現 [The emergence of beneficial reception marker: The discourse-pragmatic functions of doze in Hong Kong Cantonese]. 清華學報 [Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies], 51(3), 541-588.
- Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2020). 印尼華裔中學生繼承語學習動機及其影響因素 [Motivational Orientations of secondary school students of Mandarin Chinese as a heritage language in Indonesia]. Chinese as a Second Language, 54 (2), 145-182.