The objective of this project is to develop a comprehensive, self-directed framework for interactive English and Mandarin pronunciation learning, supported by Corpus and AI technology. Additionally, the project aims to create relevant teaching materials to accompany the framework. The foundation of this endeavour will be two speech corpora derived from the Dr. Rebecca Chen’s previousContinue reading “Empowering Multilingual Self-directed Language Learning in the Digital Age through AI and Corpus-aided Pronunciation Training”

This project aims to construct a spontaneous spoken English corpus for English learners, develop a flipped, corpus-aided spoken English teaching and learning programme, enhance online curriculum innovation, and evaluate the effectiveness of flipped, corpus-aided spoken English instruction. 78 sets of spontaneous data, including IELTS spoken data produced by learners with different English proficiency levels rangingContinue reading “Development of a Flipped Corpus-aided Spoken English Training Platform for Chinese Learners of English”

Following a thorough investigation, a Community of Practice (CoP) on technology-enhanced language learning and teaching will be established, consolidated, and sustained in EdUHK and extended to other Hong Kong higher education institutions. The community members include students, academic/teaching staff, and experts inside and outside EdUHK who engage in active exchanges of the use of technologiesContinue reading “Language enhancement at EdUHK and beyond: Fostering a Community of Practice on technology-enhanced language learning and teaching”

This project aims to develop a corpus-based training program to help teachers, learners and researchers have a better understanding of the major problems in learning English pronunciation by Hong Kong, Mainland Chinese and non-Chinese speakers in Hong Kong. According to Aston (2000), there are basically three fields for which corpus data can be used inContinue reading “The Use of Learners’ Spoken Corpus as a Teaching Tool in ESL Classrooms”

Hong Kong is a metropolitan city that serves as an international financial centre and that has given rise to multi-lingual characteristics in recent years. In addition to Cantonese and English which serve mostly as first and second languages, Hong Kong residents have increasingly started to develop a third or even fourth language. For example, MandarinContinue reading “Developing a Corpus-based Online Pronunciation Learning System for Cantonese Learners of Mandarin and Japanese”

This project aims to develop a corpus-based, online pronunciation learning system to help HKIEd’s teachers, learners and researchers have a better understanding of the major problems in learning pronunciation by Hong Kong and Mainland English learners. A learners’ pronunciation corpus was established and analysed in order to (a) identify learners’ recurrent difficulties in using EnglishContinue reading “A Corpus-based Online Pronunciation Learning System: the Pedagogical Applications of Spoken Corpus in Improving Hong Kong / Mainland University Students’ English Pronunciation”