Announcement on HAAL Awards 2024

Dear Colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce that this year, YE, Xuejun (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), will receive the HAAL Award for the Best Journal Article Published by a Novice Scholar for her paper, "Teachers’ stated beliefs and practices regarding L2 motivational strategies: A mixed-methods study of misalignment and contributing factors" (published in System).

In addition, two postgraduate students will receive the HAAL Postgraduate Student Grant for Overseas Conference Presentation. They are Yan, Jiahao from The Education University of Hong Kong (Title: Empowering novice writers’ citation competence in literature review writing through corpus technology: A mixed-method study) and HOU, Yiran from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Title: Chinese women’s heteroglossic text-making practices online: A discourse-centred online ethnography of two women’s social media practices).

Congratulations to all of the awardees! Well done!

The three award recipients will be invited to share their interesting research on 16 May 2024.

Best wishes,

Barry Bai

President of HAAL

Call for HAAL Awards

1) HAAL Postgraduate Student Grant for Overseas Conference Presentation

• This is a grant of HK$3000 to support up to two postgraduate students to present their papers at overseas conferences.

2) HAAL Award for Best Journal Article Published by a Novice Scholar

• This award, amounting to HK$2,500, is made in recognition of a novice scholar (postgraduate student or a recent graduate) of a university in Hong Kong for a paper published in an international refereed journal in applied linguistics.

Details about these awards and how to apply can be found here:

For postgraduate travel grant: 

https://www.haal.hk/post/haal-postgraduate-student-grant-for-overseas-conference-presentation-1

For the HAAL Award for Best Journal Article: 

https://www.haal.hk/post/haal_award

*Awardees in 2024 will be invited to present their papers at HAAL Awardee Night in May 2024.

The deadline for the applications for both award categories is April 12 (Friday), 2024.

Announcement on HAAL Awards 2023

Dear Colleagues,

Upon careful deliberation by three HAAL Exco members who formed the judging panel, we are very pleased to announce that this year, Miss Yumin Wang, a 2022 PhD graduate in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong, will receive the HAAL Award for the Best Journal Article Published by a Novice Scholar for her paper, "Diagnosing EFL Undergraduates' Discourse Competence in Academic Writing" (published in Assessing Writing on 5 May 2022).

In addition, two postgraduate students will receive the HAAL Postgraduate Student Grant for Overseas Conference Presentation. They are Mr. Liu Guangxiang from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Department of English) and Miss Ling Gan from Hong Kong Baptist University (Department of Education Studies).

Congratulations to all of the awardees! Well done!

The three award recipients will be invited to present their award-winning papers at the 8th HAAL Conference (www.haal2023.com) on July 15, 2023, as invited speakers and attend an award presentation ceremony at the conference.

Best wishes,

Gavin Bui

President of HAAL