Dr Kong Wai Yu Stella

Dr Stella Kong joined the Institute in 1994 when it was first established. She has been working as a teacher educator for 17 years. She specialises in immersion teacher education and has sustantial experience working with English medium subject teachers in Hong Kong both on in-service courses on campus and within their school contexts. She has recently been working with teachers in Xian on content-based language teaching, of which immersion education is a variety. She has also been coordinating the BEd English major within the Institute since the first inception of the programme and has participated in its development since then.

Research Interests

  • Content-based language teaching
  • Immersion pedagogies
  • Content-language language relationships
  • Writing across the curriculum and writing in the content areas

 

Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters

  • Hoare, P., & Kong, S. (2008). Late immersion in Hong Kong: Still stressed or making progress?. In T. W. Fortune, & D. J. Tedick (Eds.), Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education (pp.242-263). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters Ltd.

 

Journal Publications

  • Kong, S. (2015). A pedagogical framework for content-language integrated teaching at middle school level. The Journal of Asia TEFL, 12 (4), 93-127.
  • Kong, S. (2014). Designing content-language integrated learning materials for late immersion students. The TESOL Journal doi: 10.1002/tesj.151 retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tesj.151, 6(2), 302-331.
  • Kong, S. (2014). Collaboration between content and language specialists in late immersion. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 70 (1), 103-122.
  • Kong, S., & Hoare, P. (2012). The development of academic language proficiency: Challenges for middle school immersion in Hong Kong and Xi’an. International Education, 41(2), 88-109.  Full-text
  • Kong, S., & Hoare, P. (2011). Cognitive content engagement in content-based language teaching. Language Teaching Research, 15 (3), 307-324.
  • Kong, Stella; Hoare, Philip; Chi, Yanping (2011). Immersion Education in China: Teachers’ perspectives. Fontiers of Education in China, 6(1), 68-91.  Full-text
  • Kong, S., & Hoare, P. (2010). Developing students’ academic writing for content-language learning. MELTA: The English Teacher, 39, 24-50.
  • Kong, S. (2010). Writing in late immersion biology and history classes in Hong Kong. Writing & Pedagogy, 2 (1), 13-38.
  • Kong, S., & Hoare, P. (2010). English as the language of instruction at secondary level: Challenges and pedagogical implications. The Journal of Asia TEFL （Rank: B), 7 (2), 109-130.
  • Kong, S., Hoare, P (2010). English as the language of instruction at secondary level: Challenges and pedagogical implications. The Journal of Asia TEFL （Rank: B), 7(2), 109-130.
  • Kong, S. (2009). Content-based instruction: What can we learn from content-trained teachers’ and language-trained teachers’ pedagogies?. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 66 (2), 229-263.
  • Kong, W. Y. S. (2008). Late immersion in Hong Kong: A pedagogical framework integrating content-language teaching and learning. The Journal of Asia TEFL, 5 (3), 107-132.
    Hoare, P., Kong, W. Y. S., & Bell, J. (2008). Using language objectives to integrate language and content instruction: A case history of planning and implementation challenges. Language and Education, 22 (3), 187-205.

 

Conference Papers

  • Kong, S. (2011, June). Secondary immersion: Principles and practice. China-Canada-United States English Immersion (CCUEI) 4th Conference, Xian, China.
  • Kong, S; Hoare, P (2011, April). CLIL at secondary level: Principles and practice. IATEFL Annual Conference, 2011, Brighton, UK.  Full-text
  • Kong, S., & Hoare, P. (2010, March). Cognitive content engagement in content-based language teaching. American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference 2010, Atlanta.
  • Hoare, P., & Kong, W. Y. S. (2009, June). Developing students’ academic writing for science learning. Paper presented at the 18th Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA) Annual Conference, Malaysia.
  • Hoare, P., & Kong, W. Y. S. (2009, June). Engagement with content in content-based language teaching. Paper presented at the 18th Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA) Annual Conference, Malaysia.
  • Hoare, P., & Kong, W. Y. S. (2008, October). Secondary immersion: Making the connection between complex content and advanced academic language. Paper presented at the Immersion Education: Pathways to Bilingualism & Beyond, Minneapolis.
  • Kong, W. Y. S. (2008, October). Late immersion: Contrasting content-trained teachers’ and language-trained teachers’ pedagogies. Paper presented at the Immersion Education: Pathways to Bilingualism & Beyond, Minneapolis.
  • Fortune, T., Tedick, D., Cammarata, L., Crandall, J., Hoare, P., & Kong, S. (2007, June). Preparing and developing language teachers for content-based instruction. Invited participation in a symposium at the 5th International Conference on Language Teacher Education, Minnesota.
  • Hoare, P., & Kong, W. Y. S. (2006, December). One country two systems: Immersion in Xi’an Guanzhou and Hong Kong. Proceedings for English Immersion Pedagogy in Chinese Context, Shaanxi, China.
  • Kong, S. (2006, June). A case study of two late immersion lessons. Paper presented at the International Conference on Canadian Immersion Education and Bilingual Instruction in China, Shanghai.

 

All Other Outputs

  • Kong, S. (2013). Commentary on Ballinger dissertation summary. USA: John Benjamins Publishing Company.  Full-text

 

Research Projects