Dr Kong Wai Yu Stella

Specialisation: Immersion teacher education
CertEd, MEd, PhD

Dr Stella Kong is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language Education. She is also serving as the Associate Director of the School Partnership and Field Experience Office. She has been working as an English language teacher and an ELT teacher educator for more than 30 years.

She specialises in immersion teacher education and content-based language teaching (CBLT) and has substantial experience working with English medium subject teachers in Hong Kong both on in-service courses on campus and within their school contexts. She has also been working with English language teachers in Xi’an on CBLT, and has also offered workshops on immersion education and CBLT to teachers and teacher educators in other places such as the US, Finland, Malaysia, Brazil.

She was awarded the HKIEd Distinguished Teacher Award in 2006.

Teaching Interests

  • Immersion Education: Theories, Curriculum Planning and Teaching Methodologies
  • Content-based Language Teaching
  • Teaching of Writing and Reading in ESL Classrooms

 

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