FHM Researchers - Prof WANG Lixun

• Associate Dean (International Engagement), Faculty of Humanities
• Acting Head of Department / Professor (Practice), Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)

Research Area(s):

• Corpus Linguistics
• Computer-assisted Language Learning
• English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
• Multilingual Education
• English-Chinese Translation Studies

I find supervision of doctoral students a truly rewarding experience, as it is mutually beneficial to me and my students. By working closely with each other, my doctoral students and I are able to explore research topics of common interests together, and establish close research partnership, which will continue even after the students’ study period. I see my doctoral students as research partners rather than students, and I seize every opportunity to collaborate with them through giving co-authored paper presentations at international conferences, and publishing co-authored articles in reputable journals.

Brief Biography and Relevant Experiences:

Prof WANG Lixun is a passionate teacher and researcher. He is a Series Editor of the Springer book series ‘Multilingual Education’. He has published widely in reputable journals such as System, Language Learning and Technology, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, and International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. He is the author of Introduction to Language Studies (2011, Pearson) and co-author of Academic Writing in Language and Education Programmes (2011, Pearson), Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (2019, Springer), Identity, Motivation, and Multilingual Education in Asian Contexts (2020, Bloomsbury), and Is English an Asian Language? (2021, Cambridge University Press).

Awards:

Projects:

1. Creating an international community of English teachers with reinforced learning of a corpus-based language pedagogy (2022 - 2025)
2. Developing language teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge and enhancing students’ language learning in virtual learning environments (2022 - 2024)
3. GRF - Trilingual education in Hong Kong primary schools: English, Cantonese and Putonghua as Medium of Instruction in different subjects and implications for language learning (2014 - 2016)

Co-authored publications with doctoral students:

1. Li, Y. & Wang, L. (2020). Chinese teachers’ perception of how TESOL differs from teaching EAP. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 10(2), 562-570. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v10i2.28609
2. Li, Y., Wang, H., Cai, S., & Wang, L. (2020). Social Media in Shadow Education in China: An introduction. In A. Tatnall (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies (pp. 1-4). Switzerland: Springer.
3. Li, Y., & Wang, L. (2018). An ethnographic exploration of adopting project-based learning in teaching English for Academic Purposes. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 15(2), 290-303. 
4. Li, Y., & Wang, L. (2018). An ethnography of Chinese College English Teachers’ Transition from Teaching English for General Purposes to Teaching English for Academic Purposes. ESP Today, 6(1), 107-124. 
5. Li, Y., & Wang, L. (2018). Using iPad-based mobile learning to teach creative engineering within a problem-based learning pedagogy. Education and Information Technologies, 23, 555-568. doi: 10.1007/s10639-017-9617-y 
6. Ding, R., & Wang, L. (2017). Mo Yan’s style in using colour expressions and Goldblatt’s translation strategies — a corpus-based study. Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, 4(2), 117-131. DOI: 10.1080/23306343.2017.1331389
7. Li, Y., Wang, L., & Liu, X. (2016). The Values of Learners’ Mother Tongue Use in Target Language Classrooms. International Journal of English Language Teaching, 3(2), 46-57.
8. Ding, R., & Wang, L. (2015). Discourse markers in local and native English teachers’ talk in Hong Kong EFL classroom interaction: a corpus-based study. International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2(5), 65-75.

Best Paper Award won by my doctoral students:

1. ZHANG Chang’s paper ‘Generative AI and digital writing: An analysis of source use’ won Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Technology-enhanced Language Learning and Teaching & Corpus-based Language Learning and Teaching (TeLLT&CoLLT) 2024, EdUHK, Hong Kong, 3-5 July 2024.

2. PAN Yu’s paper ‘Constructing a corpus-based English writing framework with integrated medical humanities education for medical students’ won Best Paper Award at 2024 ChinaCALL Conference & International Congress on English Language Education and Applied Linguistics, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, 23-25 August 2024.

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