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Other News
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Oct 2018
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WORD
is accepted into Clarivate Analytics Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).
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Sept 2017
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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
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at an approved grant of HKD $3,398,646.
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See project
details
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Sept 2017
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Centre Director, Professor Jonathan Webster, appointed Visiting Professor at
Macquarie University, Australia.
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Jun 2017
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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
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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
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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
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the impact and sources of foreign language anxiety and explore ways to reduce students' anxious feelings
in learning
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Apr 2016
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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
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WORD
the Journal will be published by
Routledge, Taylor & Francis
from 2015, Vol. 61.
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Apr 2014
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Centre Director, Professor Jonathan Webster, appointed Visiting Professor at
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou.
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