Major Research Areas

Curriculum development, especially task-based language teaching, autonomous learning, self-access and computer-assisted language learning; assessment and evaluation; teacher education.

Second language acquisition, especially psycholinguistics and bilingualism; individual differences in language learning; learning styles and strategies; vocabulary acquisition; learner histories.

Sociolinguistics, language contact, including acquisition and use of language in multilingual contexts, code mixing, Chinese Pidgin English and historical studies of language contact; language education in China.

Discourse analysis; classroom interaction; World Englishes, especially the English of Hong Kong and China ; vocabulary and dictionaries; creative writing in English in Hong Kong.