Graduate Students

Ph.D.

• Zhang, Ting
• Wang, Qiuchen
• Zhu, Siyan
• Lu, Ying
• Zhao, Chutian
• Lin, Qiduo

M.A.

• Wang, Ting
• Zhang, Zheng

Alumni

Ph.D.

• Hong, Wei
  Co- Supervisor under Joint-PhD Scheme with China (Principal supervisor: Professor Pan, Haihua)
  Dissertation title: A study of L2 acquisition of near-synonyms in Mandarin Chinese.
• Shao, Jing
  Dissertation title: Perception and Production of Chinese Coronal Sibilants by Korean Learners of Chinese.
• Hua, Congchao
  Dissertation title: Acquisition of Prosodic Marking of Information Status by Mandarin-speaking EFL Learners.
• Xie, Dongyue
  Co- Supervisor under Joint-PhD Scheme with Nanjing Univeristy (supervisor: Professor Chen, Hua)
  Dissertation title: A Study on Phonological Coherence and Holistic Processing of Chunks in Mandarin Spontaneous Speech.
• He, Mosi
  Dissertation title: Perception and Production of English Lexical Stress by Mandarin Learners of English: Influence of Tones.

M.A.

• Fan, Yiting
  Explaining “fandom” through the lens of discourse analysis.
• Wang, Jinyao
  Entering tones in modern Jin dialect from a sociophonetic perspective.
• Yang, Jiahui
  Teaching English pronunciation to young students in China: textbooks and teacher education.
• Ren, Xingpei
  Mandarin tone perception and production by early and late Thai bilinguals.
• Chen, Xinghai
  Teaching English vocabulary to university in China.
• Masroor, Ali Sufi
  Analysis on common errors in English writing tasks of higher secondary- level students in Bangladesh.
• Ye, Yuan
  Teaching Chinese quantitative adverbs to Thai students.
• Xu, Jiayun
  Communicative Language Teaching or Task-based Language Teaching - Incidental Vocabulary Learning in TEFL in China.
• Cui, Yingting
  The relationship between English words reading and phonological awareness in ESL Mandarin - Cantonese speakers.
• Leung, Agnes
  Using popular culture to enhance Hong Kong secondary school students’ motivation of learning English.
• Zhang, Zheng
  Strategies of learning Chinese characters by CSL/ CFL learners of short-term exchange programs.
• Li, Zicheng
  

Visiting Students

Ph.D.

• Wenren, Xing
  Zhejiang University, China/ Professor Pang, Jixian
  Jul. 2009—Dec. 2009. 
  Teacher- student interaction in classroom and its pedagogical implications
• Qin, Zuxuan
  Tongji University, China/ Professor Ma, Qiuwu
  Sep. 2011—Feb. 2012
  Prosodic boundaries in spontaneous speech in Sichuan dialects
• Rong, Rong
  Nankai University, China/ Professor Shi, Feng
  Mar. 2012—Aug. 2012
  Voice quality and phonation types          

M.A.

• Xiao, Yu
  Shandong University, China/ Professor Liu, Zhenqian
  Sep. 2011—Feb. 2012
  Politeness strategies in online instant messaging by teenagers in China

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Courses

Undergraduate

• Final-year Project & Extended Final-year Project (Course Coordinator);
• Professional Internship I & II (Coordinator and Examiner);
• The World through Languages (GE2124);
• Introduction to Linguistics;
• Linguistics I & II;
• Introduction to Language Studies;
• Second Language Acquisition;
• Practical Translation: Chinese-to-English;
• Academic Writing Workshop (Tutorials);
• Language in Society;
• Many Faces of Languages (Tutorials);
• Sociolinguistics;
• Introduction to Linguistics and Language Applications.

Graduate

• Second Language Pronunciation Acquisition;
• Language Teaching;
• Translation Methodology;
• Language, Cognition & Culture;
• Contrastive Studies of Chinese and English Grammar;
• Introduction to Language and the Law(guest lecture);  
• Studies of Second Language Acquisition.

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Services

Review of journal articles

• Second Language Research
• Lingua
• International Journal of Applied Linguistics
• Language Learning
• PLOS One
• Journal of World Languages
• Language and Speech
• Language and Linguistics
• Applied Psycholinguistics
• Modern Language Journal
• Linguistics and Human Sciences
• Cogent Education
• Current Research in Chinese Linguistics
• LSHK Outstanding Student Papers/Thesis Award

Review of conference abstracts

• LSHK Annual Rearch Forum, Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics

Review of full papers in conference proceedings

• Speech Prosody, Interspeech, APSIPA, ISCSLP

Campus

• Aug. 2022-present, Deputy Programme Leader of MALS, Linguistics Subject Leader and Admission Tutor. MALS Linguistics. http://lt.cityu.edu.hk/Programmes/334/2016/balla/
• Aug. 2013-Dec. 2022, Deputy Major Leader. BA in Linguistics and Language Applications. http://lt.cityu.edu.hk/Programmes/334/2016/balla/
• Aug. 2013-Dec. 2022, Coordinator. The Professional Internship Committee. http://internship.lt.cityu.edu.hk/                              
• Aug. 2012 - 2015, Founding Member and Financial Controller. The Social Responsibility and Ethics Group, the Community of Practice Task Force Team. http://http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/copsre/people.aspx?page=1

Community

• Jan. 2022-present, President of the 19th Executive Committee. Linguistics Society of Hong Kong. http://www.lshk.org
• Jul. 2014 - present, Council Member. The Association for the Mondernization of Chinese Language Education. http://www.amcle.org
• May 2019- present, Executive Committee Member. The International Association of Chinese Linguistics. http://www.iacling.org/
• Dec. 2019 - present, Council Member. Pronunciation Teaching and Phonetic Research Committee, China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese（中國英漢語比較研究會語音教學研究專業委員會）.
• Dec. 2013 – Dec. 2015; Dec. 2019-Dec. 2021, Member of the Executive Committee. Linguistics Society of Hong Kong. http://www.lshk.org
• 2018 - present, External Examination Moderator. Continuing and Professional Education Division, School of Continuing Education, Hong Kong Baptist University.

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Awards

• 广东省科技厅“海外名师计划”2022-2023：推荐单位深圳大学外国语学院。

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Contact Info.

• Office:   LI-5483
• Phone:  (852) 3442 6267
• Fax:      (852) 3442 0359
• Email:   binli2@cityu.edu.hk

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