LML colleagues win awards at international invention expo and festival

(1) Education Linguistics 2.0 – The Use of Corpora in Language Teaching (Silver Award) won at the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva held from 10 to 14 April 2019

Educational Linguistics 2.0 is a data-driven approach for language teaching and learning in schools. With an open-access, corpus-aided online portal, this innovative language pedagogy fuses corpus linguistics research tools with classroom teaching.

The principal investigators are Dr Angel Ma Qing, Dr Jackie Lee Fung King, Dr Wang Lixun and Dr Rebecca Chen Hsueh Chu.

(2) Data-driven Chinese Language Learning and Teaching with a Cantonese Corpus (Gold Medal and Special Award) won at the Silcon Valley International Invention Festival held from 24 to 26 June 2019

The computerised Cantonese corpus contains around 800,000 character tokens of speech data taken from 60 Hong Kong movies. The corpus systematises extensive data and video segments to offer a new perspective for Cantonese teaching and learning, research, and Digital Humanities.

The principal investigator is Dr Andy Chin Chi On.