HAAL Postgraduate Student Grant for Overseas Conference Presentation

GUIDELINES FOR APPLICANTS

Application Period

Applications are accepted till April 4 of 2023. Applications should be made at least four weeks before the conference.

Application Procedure

Completed applications should be sent to Dr. Gavin Bui (gavinbui@hsu.edu.hk) together with a copy for each of the following:

• the conference pamphlet or announcement,

• an abstract of the paper(s) accepted for presentation at the conference,

• the formal notification (e-mail can be accepted) of such acceptance by the conference organiser(s),

Incomplete application will NOT be considered.

Eligibility

An applicant must

- be a current member of HAAL - has been a HAAL member for at least 12 months at the time of application, and - be a full- or part-time postgraduate student at a university in Hong Kong.

Note

Applicants who have been awarded the grant before may not apply. Preference will be given to those applicants who do not receive other source of financial support.

Amount of Grant

HK$3,000 (three thousand) per year. HAAL reserves the right to split this grant so that more than one applicant may benefit. One of the grant holders will receive the Richard Pemberton Award for Postgraduate Student Travel.

Acknowledgement

The paper presented at the conference should acknowledge the support of this grant.

PG-Grant_2023 application form

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HAAL Awards

Dear colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce that this year, Mr Eric Yin Liu, a PhD candidate in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong, will receive the Fawzia Braine Memorial Award for his paper ‘Corpus insights into the harmonization of commercial media in China: News coverage of migrant worker issues as a case study’ (published in Discourse, Context & Media, June 2021).

In addition, two postgraduate students will receive the HAAL Postgraduate Student Grant for Overseas Conference Presentation. They are Ms Qiuhua Feng (Alice) from the City University of Hong Kong (Department of English) and Miss Yi Lin (Elaine) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Department of English).

Congratulations to all of the awardees! Well Done!

The three award recipients will be delivering short presentations on their papers on 30 May (Monday) at 5 pm via zoom. You are all very welcome to attend. Please refer to the following link to join the webinar:

Topic: Webinar for HAAL awardees

Time: 30 May 2021 05:00 PM Beijing, Hong Kong

Join Zoom Meeting

https://hkbu.zoom.us/j/92768152139

Meeting ID: 927 6815 2139

Here is the programme for the event:

5:05 pm-5:15 pm

• Introductions and Prize Presentation

5:15 pm-5:40 pm

• Eric Yin Liu: Corpus insights into the harmonization of commercial media in China: News coverage of migrant worker issues as a case study

5:40 pm-6:05 pm

• Qiuhua Feng (Alice): Customizing Pedagogical Activities for Secondary ESL students from Translanguaging Lens

6:05 pm-6:30 pm

• Yi Lin (Elaine): The media representation of fast fashion’s unsustainability: a multimodal critical discourse study of documentaries

Best wishes,

Gavin Bui

President of HAAL

Associate Professor & Associate Head

Director, MA in English Language Teaching and Assessment

Department of English

The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

HAAL Awards

Dear colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce that this year, Miss Kao Chia-Ling GUPTA,a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong, will receive the Fawzia Braine Memorial Award for her paper ‘An interactional ethnographic approach to examining researcher-teacher collaboration in adopting critical CLIL’ (published in Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada, May 22, 2020).

In addition, two postgraduate students will receive the HAAL Postgraduate Student Grant for Overseas Conference Presentation. They are Mr CHAN Ka Long Roy from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Department of English) and Miss XIA Sichen Ada from the City University of Hong Kong (Department of English).

Congratulations to all of the awardees! Well Done!

The three award recipients will be delivering short presentations on their papers on 10 June (Thu) at 5:30 pm via zoom. You are all very welcome to attend. Please refer to the following link to join the webinar:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://hku.zoom.us/j/99815562264

Meeting ID: 998 1556 2264

Here is the programme for the event:

5:35 pm-5:50 pm

• Introductions and Prize Presentation

5:50 pm-6:15 pm

• Kao Chia-Ling GUPTA: An interactional ethnographic approach to examining researcher-teacher collaboration in adopting critical CLIL

6:15 pm-6:40 pm

CHAN Ka Long Roy: Intelligibility of Hong Kong English: On its segmental and suprasegmental features

6:40 pm-7:05 pm

XIA Sichen Ada: Popularizing Science in the Digital Era: A Multimodal Genre Analysis of TED Talk Videos

Best wishes,

Jim

President of HAAL