HAAL Postgraduate Student Grant for Overseas Conference Presentation

GUIDELINES FOR APPLICANTS

Application Period

Applications are accepted till May 2 of 2025.

Applications should be made at least four weeks before the conference.

Application Procedure

Completed applications should be sent to Prof. Barry Bai (barry.bai@cuhk.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.

Acknowledgement

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

PG-Grant_2025 application form.docx

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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.