Division of Languages and Communication (LC)

Research output

Research output per year 2000 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

• 1810 Citations
• 22 h-index
• 266 Article
• 234 Paper
• 113 Conference contribution
• 111 Chapter
• 188 More
  • 71 Abstract
  • 39 Book
  • 24 Other contribution
  • 17 Review article
  • 6 Poster
  • 6 Comment/debate
  • 5 Software
  • 4 Editorial
  • 3 Anthology
  • 3 Foreword/postscript
  • 2 Commissioned report
  • 2 Conference article
  • 2 Book/Film/Article review
  • 1 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 1 Literature review
  • 1 Digital or Visual Products
  • 1 Working paper

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of Language Learning Apps for Self-Regulated Learning: Insights from Mainland China, the UK, and the USA

  Zhang, Y. & Lo, N., 6 Jun 2025.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Application of Corpus Linguistic and Gen AI—Creating Teaching and Learning Experience of Teaching Cantonese to Non-Chinese speaking students

  Lau, C. W. Y., 11 Apr 2025.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Ethical Dimensions of Generative AI in Lifelong Learning: Building Inclusive and Accountable Digital Learning Societies

  Lo, N. & Chan, S., 18 Jun 2025.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• From Chat to Cheat: The Disruptive Effects of ChatGPT and Academic Integrity in Hong Kong Higher Education

  Lo, N. P. K., 9 Jul 2025.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Plagiarism 75%
  • Grade Point Average 50%
  • Advanced Detection 25%

• Kinship Terms and Their Anthropological Implications in Hui Chinese

  Lu, W., 2025, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Kinship Terms 100%
  • Kinship terms 100%
  • Chinese Kinship Terms 50%
  • Kinship Terminology 50%
  • Clan System 33%

• Learning Cantonese with a Big Data Approach: A Case Study of Learning Classifiers by NCS Learners.

  Lau, C. W. Y., 13 Jan 2025.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Leveraging teacher and GenAI feedback for revising argumentative essays

  Lin, S. S., 7 Jun 2025, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Navigating Academic Writing: Insights from a Blended Learning Case Study in EAP

  Yeh, H. W. M., 5 Jun 2025, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Navigating Data Privacy Regulations in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Hong Kong

  Lo, N. & Young, A., 13 Jun 2025.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Data Privacy 100%
  • Data Privacy Regulation 100%
  • Data Access 100%
  • Research Institution 100%
  • General Data Protection Regulation 66%

• Plurilingualism, Affect, Agency (PAA) in English Language Education: Innovating with AI and Dynamic Assessment

  Siu, P. & Lin, A. M. Y., 15 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • AI Assessment 100%
  • Dynamic Assessment 100%
  • Change Agents 50%
  • English language teaching 40%
  • Engagement with Language 25%

• Reimagining Embodied Disciplinary Literacy for Career-ready Graduates: MEC-guided Role-playing as Self-access Learning in Corporate Communication

  Siu, P., 7 Jun 2025.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Corporate Communication 100%
  • Disciplinary Literacy 100%
  • Corporate Branding 50%
  • Corporate Presentations 25%
  • Immersive Learning Environments 25%

• Student Perspectives on SPOC-based Blended Learning Tasks for Enhancing English Proficiency in Hong Kong Higher Education

  Lo, N. P. K., Tong, K. M. E., Cheung, L. M. E. & Chan, S. T. S., 13 Jun 2025.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Blended Learning 100%
  • English proficiency 100%
  • Online Courses 100%
  • English 100%

• The rise of GenAI: Teachers’ voices on collaborative feedback delivery

  Chunrao, D., Lin, S. S. & Tong, K. M. E., 13 Jan 2025.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Collaborative Feedback 100%
  • Feedback Delivery 100%
  • Teacher Voice 100%
  • Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Artificial Humans 37%

• The Ways You Make Me Feel: Digital Storytelling as Translanguaging ​in Hong Kong for Higher Education

  Siu, P., 15 Jan 2025, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Semiotics 100%
  • Community Detection 50%
  • Bilingual Students 50%
  • Dynamic Difficulty 50%
  • Report Design 50%

• Translanguaging in EMI/CLIL Classrooms: Hong Kong’s Innovative Insights

  KWOK, T. C. T. & Wen, E. Z., 30 Jun 2025, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Translanguaging 100%
  • Cognitive Principle 100%
  • Hong Kong 25%
  • Environmental Policy 25%
  • Advocacy 25%
• 2024

  Acquisition of restrictive focus particles by Cantonese speaking children.

  Lau, C. W. Y., 6 Jul 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Bridging Harmony and Empowerment with Translanguaging and Affect: Revitalizing human-level intelligence through the Multimodalities-Entextualisation Cycle [Invited Plenary Speaker Presentation for ISFC49, 2024]

  Siu, P., 3 Jul 2024, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Multimodality 100%
  • Entextualization 100%
  • Translanguaging 100%
  • Human Intelligence 100%

• Designing a new Cantonese course for post-secondary Non-Chinese Speaking Ethnic Minority Students

  Lau, C. W. Y., 14 Jun 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Dual roles of content teachers in CLIL classrooms in higher education

  KWOK, T. C. T., 4 Dec 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Higher Education 100%
  • Dual Role 100%
  • Content Teachers 100%
  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Additional Language 66%

• Enhancing L2 student's writing online: Use of Padlet and Zoom in an introductory literature course

  Shi, H. W., 19 Apr 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

  • Online Use 100%
  • Student Writing 100%
  • Padlet 100%
  • Narrative Inquiry 100%
  • Literature Course 100%

• Enhancing University-Level English Proficiency with Generative AI: Empirical Insights into Automated Feedback and Learning Outcomes

  Chan, S., Lo, N. & Wong, A., 19 Oct 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Ethics and Jurisprudence in Hong Kong: Assessing the Role of Higher Education in Integrating Modern Approaches into Legal Practice in HKSAR

  Lo, N. & Chan, H., 18 Dec 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Exploring the Role of Positive Psychology in Higher Education: Examining Elements that Enable or Impede Language Educator Well-being

  Lo, N.P.-K. & Punzalan, C. H., 21 Jun 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Higher Education 100%
  • Language Teachers 100%
  • Positive Psychology 100%
  • Educator Wellbeing 100%
  • Well-being 40%

• Generative Artificial Intelligence and Sociolinguistics [Invited Colloquium Theme]: Disrupting monoglossic classrooms with the Multimodalities-Entextualization Cycle: Translanguaging and trans-semiotizing in AI-embracing learning and assessment in EMI higher education [Colloquium Panel Paper 4]

  Siu, P., 27 Jun 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Higher Education 100%
  • Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Multimodality 100%
  • Entextualization 100%
  • Translanguaging 100%

• Harnessing GenAI: Hong Kong Undergraduate Students’ Attitudes on the Role of AI Tools in Learning and Assessment

  Cheung, L. M. E., Lu, W. & Chigaeva-Heddad, S., 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Student Attitudes 100%
  • Undergraduate Students 100%
  • Generative AI 100%
  • AI Tools 100%

• Impact of assignment-oriented corpus-based language workshops on tertiary students from non-language majors

  Cheung, L. M. E., Lau, S. Y. S. & Lau, Y. Y. J., 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Tertiary Students 100%
  • Corpus-based 100%
  • Non-English Majors 100%
  • Corpus 100%
  • Assignment 100%

• It's More than Just A-Z: Co-engaging tertiary students in Digital Storytelling through the Multimodalities-Entextualisation Cycle

  Siu, P., 17 Jun 2024, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Tertiary Students 100%
  • Multimodality 100%
  • Entextualization 100%
  • Digital Storytelling 100%
  • Story-Telling 100%

• Negotiations of students’ identity in an emerging technology-infused education landscape: To ChatGPT or not to ChatGPT?

  Pun, C. F. & Lau, Y. Y. J., 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Participation Pattern and Learning Effectiveness of Online Classes Versus Face-to-face Instruction in Informal Courses: A Case Study of the Complementary Studies Programme at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  So, J.C.-H., Lo, N.P.-K., Kwan, W.C.-K. & Chan, K.O.-W., 13 Jun 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Online Classes 100%
  • Polytechnic University 100%
  • Learning Effectiveness 100%
  • Face-to-face Learning 100%

• Removing the Language Barrier in Cross-Cultural Communication?: Examining the Use of GenAI in a Storytelling Service Learning Subject for Refugee Children

  Cheung, L. M. E. & Shi, H. W., 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• The Acquisition of Restrictive Focus Particles by Monolingual Cantonese-Speaking Children: A Corpus Study

  Lau, C. W. Y., 13 Dec 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• The Logico-Semantic Relations Between Dynamic On-screen Annotations and Static Visual Aids in Online Classroom Teaching: An Exploratory Case Study

  Cheung, L. M. E., 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Online Classes 100%
  • Classroom Teaching 100%
  • Visual Aids 100%
  • Logico-semantic Relations 100%
  • Case Study 100%

• The Nonhuman and the 'Intransitive' Ecological Elegy

  Shi, H. W., 2024, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Ecological 100%
  • Nonhuman 100%
  • Elegy 100%
  • intransitive 100%
  • Mourning 62%

• Three pedagogical approaches of teaching non-tonal language speakers Cantonese tones.

  Lau, C. W. Y., 12 Jun 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Translanguaging and transknowleding towards critical and inclusive CLIL in plurilingual settings [Symposium Panel Presenter 5] [Chaired by Dr April Liu, EDUHK]: Co-developing Spatial Repertoires for Inclusive CLIL: Translanguaging and Trans-semiotizing Agency for Activating Laboratory-guided Science Literacy [Higher Education in Hong Kong]

  Siu, P., 14 Aug 2024, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Higher Education 100%
  • Presenter 100%
  • Translanguaging 100%
  • Plurilingual 100%

• ‘Re-dressing’ Modern War Elegies: Heaney as an Example

  Shi, H. W., Jun 2024, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Elegy 100%
  • Seamus Heaney 100%
  • Modern War 100%
  • New Ethics 28%
  • Speaker 28%

• 儒道的分合——《呂氏春秋》「時機」理論淵源新探

  Chan, Y. H. D., 21 Dec 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• 康譯《無量壽經》副詞＂已＂考察——兼論＂已＂副詞化過程

  Lau, K. T., 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• 皇帝將相「入冥」受審之小說敘事：從因果報應到後現代再建構

  Peng, C. H. E., 2 Mar 2024.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
• 2023

  Authenticity of AI softwares in university settings for teaching and learning in EAP and ESP

  Chan, S. & Lo, N., 19 May 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Teaching-learning 100%
  • University Setting 100%
  • Artificial Intelligence Software 100%
  • Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Digital Technology 50%

• Design and implementation of learning through play in preschool English classes through professional learning communities

  Tam, C. F. A., 1 Dec 2023, (Accepted/In press). 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • English Class 100%
  • Professional Learning Communities 100%
  • Preschool 100%
  • Learning through Play 100%
  • Teacher Professional Development 100%

• Development of oral English competence through immersive metaverse-based audio dialoguing: In-game to real-life

  Tong, K. M. E. & Chan, I., Aug 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  Open Access

• Digital Learning and the ESL Online Classroom in Higher Education: Teachers’ Perspectives

  Lo, N., 4 Jul 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• From Creativity to Critical Literacies: Adopting Translanguaging and Trans-semiotizing classroom interactional strategies in EAP classrooms for Design Majors in Hong Kong

  Siu, P., 3 Apr 2023, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Tertiary Students 100%
  • Translanguaging 100%
  • English for Academic Purposes 100%
  • Trans-semiotizing 100%

• Gongyeh in Public Relations: Mobilising students’ collective agency in CLIL through the Multimodalities-Entextualisation Cycle

  Siu, P. & Tong, K. M. E., 17 May 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Public Relations 100%
  • In Content 100%
  • Language Integrated Learning 100%
  • Multimodality 100%
  • Entextualization 100%

• Lesson Recordings in Post COVID-19 Higher Education: Teacher Perspectives and Experiences

  Lo, N. & Wong, M.-H. A., 5 Apr 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Nativeness versus Intelligibility: How do Listeners from various L1 background perceive Hong Kong Cantonese Speakers’ English Pronunciation

  LAI, W., SETTER, J. E., Tong, K. M. E., Ng, M., Wong, F. C. F. & Lau, Y. Y. J., Jul 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Speech Functions and Second Order Semiosis in Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited

  Webster, C., 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

• Teacher Perceptions of Recorded Lessons as Learning Instruments at Hong Kong Universities

  Lo, N. & Wong, M.-H. A., 4 Jul 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• The Effectiveness of Different Pedagogical Approaches on Improving Post-Secondary Hong Kong Cantonese Speakers’ English Intelligibility Across the Globe

  LAI, W., SETTER, J. E., Tong, K. M. E., Ng, M., Wong, F. C. F. & Lau, Y. Y., 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review