Other News |
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Oct 2018 |
WORD is accepted into Clarivate Analytics Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). |
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Sept 2017 |
Centre Director, Professor Jonathan Webster,
obtained a project grant from UGC Teaching & Learning Related Proposals
(2016-19 Triennium). Professor Webster is the primary investigator of the project entitled
'Meeting the Challenge of Teaching and Learning Language in the University: Enhancing Linguistic
Competence and Performance in English and Chinese '
at an approved grant of HKD $3,398,646. |
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See project
details |
Sept 2017 |
Centre Director, Professor Jonathan Webster, appointed Visiting Professor at
Macquarie University, Australia. |
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Jun 2017 |
Centre Core Member, Dr. John Lee, was awarded a Knowledge Transfer (KT) Earmarked Fund, totaling
HKD $199,710. The project 'Towards Automatic Translation between Mandarin Chinese and
Cantonese'
aimed to develop a mobile app that performs automatic translation between Mandarin Chinese and
Cantonese,
and supports learning of Chinese as a foreign language. |
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Jun 2017 |
Centre Core Member, Dr. Jackie Yan, was granted HKD $199,725 in Knowledge Transfer (KT) Earmarked
Fund.
Dr. Yan's project, entitled 'Foreign Language Anxiety in English-Chinese Interpretation Classes: A
Comparison of Undergraduate,
Graduate and Professional Interpreter Training Programs', attempted to investigate
the impact and sources of foreign language anxiety and explore ways to reduce students' anxious feelings
in learning |
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Apr 2016 |
Commencing April 2016, Linguistics and the Human Sciences (LHS), a journal under the
editorship of Professor Jonathan Webster,
has been added to Thomson Reuters new index called ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index),
which is a new addition to their Web Sciences Core Collection (which includes SCI, SSCI, AHCI). |
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Jun 2014 |
WORD the Journal will be published by
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
from 2015, Vol. 61.
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Apr 2014 |
Centre Director, Professor Jonathan Webster, appointed Visiting Professor at
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou. |
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