Despite the emerging importance of corpus linguistics and its great potential in facilitating language teaching and learning, a corpus-based linguistic approach still remains largely unknown to the majority of the professional teaching community. This project is based on a differentiation between corpus linguistic research and language pedagogy, where solutions are developed and implemented to facilitateContinue reading “Enhancement of Student Learning Outcomes: Developing Pre-service and In-service English Teachers’ Corpus Literacy Using Flipped Learning Enhanced by Mobile Technologies”

In recent years, the fast development of mobile technologies has greatly enriched and assisted students’ subject learning in higher education, and more and more lecturers have started using mobile technologies (smart phone, tablet, pocket pc, notebook, etc.) to assist their teaching. This project aims to showcase the vitality and creativity of tertiary students of differentContinue reading “Promoting Mobile Learning in the EdUHK and Beyond through Further Development of a Mobile Learning Community”

As English is the major medium of instruction in Hong Kong tertiary education, this project links mobile technologies with subject learning through English and showcases the vitality and creativity of tertiary students of different levels (undergraduates, masters, doctorates) and from different disciplines (Science, Social Science, Education, Arts and Humanities, etc.) in mobile learning. Following aContinue reading “Fostering a Mobile Learning Community: the Use of Mobile Technologies in Studying Subject Knowledge through English in Tertiary Education in Hong Kong”

This project aims to develop a corpus-based online learning system to help English majors at HKIEd improve their academic writing by enhancing their ability to better understand the appropriate use of academic lexico-grammatical items. The project involved compiling three distinctive corpora: An English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Learner Corpus, An EAP Corpus (collected from professionalContinue reading “A Corpus-based Online Learning System: Improving Undergraduates’ Use of Lexico-grammatical Items in Academic Writing”