Faculty Dean Prof. Li Ping Featured in PolyU's Excel x Impact

Faculty Dean Prof. Li Ping was invited by PolyU's Excel x Impact magazine to talk about his research, mottos in life, as well as the importance of humanities studies in its inaugural issue. Read full story

New Book - Biliteracy and Trilingualism: Language Education Policy Research in Hong Kong

The first Chinese monograph on the language policy “Biliteracy and Trilingualism” and its planning in Hong Kong, titled “Biliteracy and Trilingualism: Language Education Policy Research in Hong Kong”, by Dr Leung Wai-mun and Prof. David C.S. Li of the Department of Chinese & Bilingual Studies (CBS), with a foreword by Prof. William Wang, has just been released by the City University of Hong Kong Press, one of the major academic publishers in Hong Kong. Click HERE for more information. Citation: Leung, W. M. and Li, D.C.S. (2020). Biliteracy and Trilingualism: Language Education Policy Research in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press. Table of Contents (in Chinese) 序言（王士元） 導言 作者簡介 1. 香港「兩文三語」政策的制定與實踐 2. 「兩文三語」政策下英語和普通話的學習 3. 「三語」政策下粵語的使用現況、定位與發展 4. 「兩文三語」政策下非華語學生的中文學習 5. 香港「兩文三語」政策下的語文規劃 6. 總結 附錄 參考文獻 後記

Faculty of Humanities Entry Scholarship for Outstanding HKDSE Students

Congratulations to Cheuk Wing Tung Jenny, a final-year student in the BA(Hons) in English Studies for the Professions programme, on receiving the Outstanding Student Award of the Faculty of Humanities 2019. Winners of the Outstanding Student Award of Department 2019 have also bee announced and the recipients from our Faculty are:  Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies Li Xiyuan Department of Chinese Culture Pang Wing Cheong Department of English Cheuk Wing Tung Jenny PolyU's Outstanding Student Award is granted on an annual basis to full-time final-year students who excel in both academic and non-academic pursuits during their studies. Each academic department is allowed to nominate one candidate. The “Most Outstanding PolyU Student” is then selected among the eight awardees from six faculties and two independent schools.

Faculty of Humanities Entry Scholarship for Outstanding HKDSE Students

Faculty of Humanities (FH) accords recognition to outstanding HKDSE students admitted to the BA(Hons) in Linguistics and Translation (JS3818) and BA(Hons) in English Studies for the Professions (JS3832) via JUPAS 2020/21 onwards. Details of the scholarship

Neuroscience Paper Ranked among Top 100 by Scientific Reports 2019

Have you ever wondered what is actually going on inside your brain when you read a text? Did you know your brain will work differently when you read expository texts? In a research article recently published by Scientific Reports, our Faculty Dean Prof. Li Ping and his team shared their research findings on the reading brain in scientific text comprehension as well as the effects of e-device usage on learning. The paper is one of the top 100 downloaded neuroscience papers for Scientific Reports in 2019. Read more: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/fh/en-us/newsletter_details/view/97

PolyU Linguistics Ranked 45th Worldwide

PolyU Linguistics ranks among the top 50 in the world for the eighth year in a row. The subject of linguistics – the discipline in which a majority of FH staff members are engaged – is ranked 8th* in Asia and 45th worldwide according to the newly released Quacquarelli Symonds University Rankings by Subject 2020.  QS rankings are based on universities’ subject performance in terms of academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact. *By regional filtering of Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings by Subject 2020.

PolyU-trained Student Wins Bronze Medal in Online Olympiad in Linguistics 2020

A representative from the Hong Kong Linguistics Olympiad (HKLO) team1, Bui Ka (Amber) Chan, won bronze medal in the second Online Olympiad in Linguistics 2020 which was held in January this year. Online Olympiad in Linguistics 2020 started on Friday, January 24 (7:00 am UTC) and lasted till Monday, January 27 (10:00 pm UTC). This event brought together more than 500 high school students from 32 countries/regions. It is the first time for 6 Hong Kong delegates to attend this competition. These students were jointly trained by Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies (CBS) and Department of English (ENGL). For more information, please visit the Online Olympiad in Linguistics website: https://onling.org 1The Hong Kong team has six delegates.

Paper Selected as Lingua Editors' Choice

The paper “Directionality of linguistic synesthesia in Mandarin: A corpus-based study” written by Dr Zhao Qingqing (CBS PhD graduate), Prof. Huang Chu-Ren(CBS) and Prof. Kathleen Ahrens(ENGL) has been selected by Lingua as one of its Editors’ Choice articles of 2020. Selected by the Editors as noteworthy and likely to be of high interest to the community, this paper will be available free of charge until the end of this March:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384119304930

25th Congregation - FH Sessions

First Session Date 9 November 2019 Time 10:00am Venue PolyU Jockey Club Auditorium The programme will be conducted in English. Invitation Letter Notes to Graduands Notes to Awardees Second Session Date 9 November 2019 Time 1:00pm Venue PolyU Jockey Club Auditorium The programme will be conducted in English. Invitation Letter Notes to Graduands Notes to Awardees Third Session Date 9 November 2019 Time 4:00pm Venue PolyU Jockey Club Auditorium The programme will be conducted in English. Invitation Letter Invitation Letter (BAEBPC Only) Notes to Graduands Notes to Awardees Conferment Procedure on the Stage: Video Congregation Arrangements: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/ar/web/en/for-graduates/congregation-arrangements/index.html Award Parchment Collection: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/ar/web/en/for-graduates/award-parchment/index.html

Faculty of Humanities Welcomes New Dean

The Faculty is pleased to welcome Prof. Li Ping, who took up the role of Dean of Humanities on 2 September 2019. Prof. Li has concurrently been appointed as Chair Professor of Neurolinguistics and Bilingual Studies in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies.  Prior to joining the University, Prof. Li was faculty member at The Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1996 and the University of Richmond in USA from 1996 to 2008. He served as Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University in USA since 2008. Some of his key leadership positions include Co-Chair of the Inter-College Graduate Programme in Neuroscience, Associate Director of the Institute for CyberScience, and Programme Director at the US National Science Foundation (NSF).  Prof. Li is an internationally renowned scholar and has a very strong track record of obtaining research grants from national and international funding bodies. He has been continuously supported by major research grants from the NSF for various projects since 1999. His research aims at understanding the developmental, neural and computational bases of language learning and representation, and the relationships among language, culture, and technology. He is currently Editor-in-Chief for Brain and Language, Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences and Editor Emeritus for Bilingualism: Language and Cognitionand Journal of Neurolinguistics, among other editorial memberships.  The Faculty will continue to create synergies among language, culture and science in education and research and strive for excellence under its new leadership. Taking the opportunity, we would like to wholeheartedly thank the former Dean, Prof. Chu Hung-lam, for his dedication and contributions to the Faculty. Upon completion of his term as Dean, Prof. Chu will continue to serve as Chair Professor in the Department of Chinese Culture.