FHM Researchers - Dr WANG Cong

Associate Professor
Department of Chinese Language Studies (CHL)

Research Area(s):

• Linguistics

My research interests include language contact, linguistic typology, and second language acquisition.  I cooperate with some French scholars to explore the language contact among Sinitic languages in the Greater Bay Area. Applicants who are interested in pursuing the PhD study at EdUHK are welcomed to contact me via email for further conversation.

Research monograph:

Wang, C*. *, Wang,J., Atshogs,Y.V., & Feng,S.L.(2018). Tones, Intonation and Sentence-final Particles. Beijing Language and Culture University Press.

Selected journal publications:

1. Wang C.*, Zhu S. D. & Zhang H. J. (2022). Understanding the importance of motivational intensity in EFL context: A structural equation modeling analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1020558. (SSCI, Q1, IF=4.232) 
2. Zhu S. D & Wang C.* (2022). Vocabulary learning in Chinese as a second language: exploring the role of self-regulation in facilitating vocabulary knowledge of second language learners. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 893900. (SSCI, Q1, IF=4.232) 
3. Wang, C. *, Zhu, S. & Ma, B. (2021). A study on English learning strategies of university students in Hong Kong. Asian Englishes, 1-15. (SJR, Q1, IS=1.51) 
4. Wang, C. (2020). The tone and SFP of Altaic language and their correlation research阿爾泰語的聲調、句末語氣詞及相關性研究. Studies in Language and Linguistics《語言研究》, 40(4), 119-126. (CSSCI, Q1) 
5. Wang, C. (2020). The plural forms of personal pronouns in Sinitic languages and their origins analysis from typological perspective 漢語方言人稱代詞的複數表達及其來源的類型學意義考察. Lexicographical Studies《辭書研究》, 6, 75-84. 
6. Wang, C. (2019). Analysing the original properties and evolutional related issues of personal pronouns from the perspective of typology: Evidence from “shen”, “nong” and “yi” 漢語人稱代詞的來源屬性及其演變的類型學意義分析：以「身」「儂」「伊」等為例. Lexicographical Studies《辭書研究》, 35(4), 121-135.

Selected ongoing research projects:
•      University Grants Committee (UGC)

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