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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:

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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

HAAL Fawzia Braine Memorial Award Presentation on 10 June 2020 (Wed)

We are very pleased to announce that this year, Mr Greg Chung-Hsien Wu, a PhD candidate in the Centre for Applied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong, will receive the Fawzia Braine Memorial Award for his paper "Engaging senior-year admitted students' academic literacies across the discipline: A language practitioner's perspectives" (published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International, in press). 

Congratulations to Mr Wu! Well Done!

The award recipient will be delivering a 25-min webinar plus a 10-min Q&A session on his paper on 10 June 2020 (Wed) at 6:00 pm. You are all very welcome to join us. Please refer to the following Zoom link. 

HAAL Awardees

Updated: Nov 8, 2019

2018/2019


Fawzia Braine Memorial Award for the Best Journal Article Published by a Novice Scholar

Mr. Chan Ka Long, Roy

(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, for his international journal article “Being a ‘Purist’ in Trilingual Hong Kong: Code-switching among Cantonese, English and Putonghua” published in Linguistic Research, 35(1), 75-95, 2018.)


Postgraduate Student Travel Award

Ms. Tongle Sun

(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, for her conference presentation ‘Adjusting to an English-speaking environment: The experiences of Chinese international exchange students’ at the 11th International Academy for Intercultural Research Biennial Conference & the 15th Chinese Association for Intercultural Communication Annual Conference. )

Ms. Wang Qian, Bobbie

(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, for her conference presentation ‘Vowel variation in different speech styles: Evidence from speakers of China English’ at the 2019 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. )


 

2017/2018


Fawzia Braine Memorial Award for the Best Journal Article Published by a Novice Scholar

Mr. Peter Wingrove (Centre for Applied English Studies, The University of Hong Kong, for his paper titled ‘How suitable are TED talks for academic listening’, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2017).


Postgraduate Student Travel Awardees

Mr. Gavin Junjie Wu (Department of English, City University of Hong Kong. Mr Wu also receives the Richard Pemberton Award for Postgraduate Student Travel.)

Ms. Joy Congyi Qu (Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)


 

2016/2017


Fawzia Braine Memorial Award for the Best Journal Article Published by a Novice Scholar

Mr. Mark Feng Teng (Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, for his paper titled ‘Immediate and delayed effects of embedded metacognitive instruction on Chinese EFL students’ English writing and regulation of cognition’, in Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2016).


Postgraduate Student Travel Awardees

Mr. Daniel Recktenwald (Department of English, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Mr Recktenwald also receives the Richard Pemberton Award for Postgraduate Student Travel.)

Ms. Cindy Yu (Department of English, The City University of Hong Kong)


 

2015/2016


Fawzia Braine Memorial Award for the Best Journal Article Published by a Novice Scholar

Mr. Kevin Jiang (Centre for Applied English Studies, The University of Hong Kong, for his paper titled ‘Nominal stance construction in L1 and L2 students’ writing, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 20, 90-102, 2015).


Postgraduate Student Travel Awardees

Ms. Cherry Chan (Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Ms. Chan also receives the Richard Pemberton Award for Postgraduate Student Travel.)


Ms. Bonnie Ho (Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)


 

2014/2015


Fawzia Braine Memorial Award for the Best Journal Article Published by a Novice Scholar

Mr. Kevin Yung Wai Ho (Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, for his paper titled ‘Learning English in the shadows: Understanding Chinese learners’ experiences of private tutoring’ in TESOL Quarterly, 2014).


Postgraduate Student Travel Awardees

Mr. Stella He Xuehong (Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Ms. He receives the Richard Pemberton Award for Postgraduate Student Travel)

Ms. Ivy Wong (Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)


 

2013/2014


Fawzia Braine Memorial Award for the Best Journal Article Published by a Novice Scholar

Miss Alice Yau (School of English, The University of Hong Kong,  for her co-authored publication (with Dr. Olga Zayts) titled ‘‘I don’t want to see my children suffer after birth’: The ‘risk of knowing’ talk and decision-making in prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome in Hong Kong’  forthcoming in Health, Risk and Society).


Postgraduate Student Travel Awardees

Mr. Kazuyuki Nomura (Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Mr. Nomura receives the Richard Pemberton Award for Postgraduate Student Travel)

Mr. Rui Yuan (Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)


 

2012/2013


Fawzia Braine Memorial Award for the Best Journal Article Published by a Novice Scholar

Mr. Jim Y.H. Chan (Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, for his paper titled ‘Contextual variation and Hong Kong English’ in World Englishes 32/1: 54-74)


Postgraduate Student Travel Awardees

Ms. Meilin Chen (Department of English, The City University of Hong Kong) (Ms Chen receives the Richard Pemberton Award for Postgraduate Student Travel)

Ms. Kathy Ling Lin (Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Mr. Colin Shulin Yu (Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

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