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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

    • 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)