Current Research

Research Areas 

Please see individual profiles for more updated details.

Drama Studies and World Englishes

Novel, Film Studies and Critical Theory

Task-based Language Teaching, Second Language Acquisition

Sign Language and Gesture, Syntax

Multilingual Studies, Semantics, Digital Humanities

English Language and Education

Political Theory and Literature, Modern and contemporary literature

Postcolonialism, Stylistics

External Funding

• 2024-2025 Principal Investigator: Dr FUNG Kai-yeung

‘Standing on Threshold: Evil and the Will in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Fictions’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H15/24, HK$281,850)

• 2023-2024 Principal Investigator: Dr Jay Parker

‘Poetic Justice and the Anglophone Novel, 1678–1928’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H13/23, HK$772,133)

• 2022-2023 Principal Investigator: Dr Maggie Ma

‘Exploring Teacher-Supported Peer Feedback: Developing Student Feedback Literacy and Writing Quality’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H02/21, HK$691,394.00)

• 2021-2023 Principal Investigator: Dr Gavin Bui

‘Functional Adequacy in Second Language Speaking and Writing Tasks: Measurement and Pedagogy’.
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H13/20, HK$907,910.00)

• 2020-2021 Principal Investigator: Dr Jay Parker

‘Postcritique and Joseph Conrad’
Faculty Development Scheme, Reserach Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H15/19, HK$250,800)

• 2020-2021 Principal Investigator: Dr Paul Fung
  

‘Permanent Parabasis’: Irony and Self-Consciousness in Dostoevsky’s Novels’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H13/19, HK$319,800)

• 2018-2020 Principal Investigator: Dr Donovan Grose
  

‘Co-speech Gestures Across First and Second Languages in Hong Kong: Cantonese and English’ 
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H03/17, HK$1,015,263)

• 2014-2017 Principal Investigator: Dr Gavin Bui
  

‘Task Sequencing with Different Task Types and Conditions in Task-based Language Teaching: A Longitudinal Study on Immediate Task Performance and Long-term Proficiency Development’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H01/14, HK$684,526)

• 2014-2016 Principal Investigator: Dr Maggie Ma
  

‘Exploring English  teachers’ assessment practices and student perceptions of them in Hong Kong’s self-financing tertiary education context’
Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grant Council
(UGC/FDS14/H08/14, HK$562,971)

• 2014-2015 Principal Investigator: Dr Maggie Ma
  

‘Exploring learning-oriented assessment in Hong Kong’s self-financing tertiary education context’
Small Research Grant, Federation for Self-financing Tertiary Education
(SRGS-13-03, HK$28,600)