UG Sessions (Literature)
10:00am – 11:00am @A314
TAM Walen
Re-reading Brave New World through Agamben: Modernity, Bare life and the State of Exception
LAM Winola Wai-larm
Reimagining Femininity: An Intertextual Analysis of Pride and Prejudice and Bridgerton: The Duke and I
UG Sessions (Linguistics)
10:00am – 11:30am @A315
LI Meiqi Maggie
Exploring AI-supported Dialogic Peer Feedback Activities in an Academic English Writing Classroom: Student Perceptions and Influencing Factors
TAM Ho Lai, Mars
Slang, Abbreviations, and Identity on Reddit: A Decade Apart
HO Lai Ying, Ruby
Investigating Hong Kong Students’ Preferences for English Teaching Methods and the Role of Motivation
FANG Cijia, Ciara
Investigating the Impact of AI-assisted Language Learning on University EFL students’ speaking skills in Hong Kong
Keynote Speech I
11:45pm – 12:30pm @A314
Ms Margaret TSAU
Barrister-at-Law, Island Chambers; Lecturer, School of Translation and Foreign Languages, HSUHK
From Language to Law: Navigating Your Path from English Studies to a Hong Kong Legal Career
PG Sessions (MA-GELCS)
2:00pm – 3:30pm @A314
LIU Chang, Nova
A Door, Not a Void: Reconstructing Memory and Self
Zhang Limin, Ivy
Beyond Trauma: Yiyun Li’s English as a Strategy for Self-Invention and Literary Belonging
LAI Kai King, Toby
Staging the Archive: Play-Reading as a Method for Re-contextualising Performing Arts Criticism Archive
PG Sessions (MA-ELTA)
2:00pm – 3:30pm @A315
Purnima Saini, Betty Xie, Claire Long, Rose Guang
“Natural Rhythm” or Intelligibility? A Lingua Franca Core Analysis of Suprasegmental Bias in HKDSE vs. IELTS Speaking Rubrics
Yu Shulan Susan, Long Qingqing Claire, Xie Jingjing Betty, Luo Yinghong Nancy, Chen Xin Listener
Cognitive Validation of High-Stakes Reading Tests: A Comparative Task-Mapping Analysis of the HKDSE and IELTS within the Khalifa and Weir (2009) Model
Guang Huanzhu Rose, Wang Pei Peina, Bai Lijuan Daphne, Yan Ruiya Ruiya
Comparison of Validity and Reliability between the HKDSE and IELTS Reading Test Samples
Keynote Speech II
3:30pm – 4:15pm @A314
Dr Helena SIT
Associate Professor and School Discipline Lead of Languages, University of Newcastle
Rethinking Assessment in the Age of AI: Towards Secure and Ethical Practices in TESOL
Zoom Link: https://hsuhk.zoom.us/j/91088043206
