Dr Gu Mingyue
Dr Gu Mingyue is a newly appointed Post-doctoral Fellow in the Key Research Area of Language Education and Literature (English), the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Mingyue received her PhD at the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong in 2007. So far Mingyue has eight articles published or in press in edited books and journals. Her research interests include second language learning motivation and identity, teacher beliefs, teacher identities, sociocultural theory and critical discourse analysis.

Dr Leung Wai-mun
Wai-mun Leung received her doctorate degree in Linguistics from the University of Hong Kong and subsequently joined the Department of Chinese as a teaching fellow in January 2006. Her research interests primarily lie in the intersection of several fields of linguistics: historical linguistics, syntax and phonetics. She explored into various aspects of the sentence-final particles in Hong Kong Cantonese for her BA’s honour project, MPhil thesis and PhD dissertation. She has published papers on this and other linguistic areas. Recently her interests start to include the applications of language in the education sector.
Wai-mun’s teaching covers Modern Chinese language, Discourse analysis and Contrastive analysis of Putonghua and Cantonese and their applications. She is currently teaching Chinese Phonetics and Classroom Language use.

(Personal homepage: http://hk.geocities.com/wlwwml/)

Dr Tang Pui Ling
Dr Tang Pui Ling received her B.A., M Phil. and PhD degrees in Chinese Language and Literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.. From 2001-2005, She worked in the Department of Chinese in CUHK as a Teaching Assistant. Before she became a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute of Education in 2007, she had been working as a teaching fellow at the Chinese Department in HKIEd for two years.

Dr Tang’s research interests include Chinese Language Education, Chinese Paleography, Ancient Chinese Grammar and Classical Chinese. Her most recent research is a study on the significance of Confucian and Taoist classics in contemporary Chinese language teaching. Since 2002, she has presented and published over 10 papers in edited books, journals and international conferences. The title of her PhD thesis was “The Exploration of Jia-ci 嘏辭 in Inscribed Bronzes of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty”, and that of her M. Phil thesis was “Grammatical Research of the Chu Bamboo Manuscripts Xing-qing-lun 性情論 from the Collections of the Shanghai Museum”.

Dr Tang is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Key Research Area of Language Education and Literature (Chinese). Dr Tang is now a co-investigator of two research projects that are related to Chinese Paleography and ancient Chinese classics.