Academic Staff
- HHB815c, Hung Hom Bay Campus
- +852 2766 6364
- wai-mun.leung@polyu.edu.hk
- Personal Website
學歷
- Postgraduate Diploma in Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Bachelor of Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Master of Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Hong Kong
Academic and Professional Experience
- Dec 2025 - Jan 2026
Visiting Scholar, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - March 2024 - May 2024
Visiting Scholar, Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - April 2023 - May 2023
Visiting Scholar, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - 2022 - Present
Associate Professor, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - 2016 - 2022
Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Teaching Areas
- Teaching Chinese Grammar to Non-native Speakers
- Chinese Culture and Classics
- Chinese Language and Chinese Society
- Description of Chinese: Sounds and Script
- Leung, W.M. (2025). Language Barrier: Chinese Language Education for South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong(語言隔閡:香港南亞族裔的中文學與教). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press. ISBN: 978-962-937-698-7. Paperback 334 pages
- Leung, W. M., & Wang, S. (2025). The Teochew community in Thailand: Roots, cultural context and language transmission. In P. Y. Chen, L. L. Lin, & Q. Y. Zhu (Eds.), Teochew studies in the perspective of modernization (pp. 233–243). Jinan University Press.
- Leung, W. M. (2025). A study on the changes in the use of Putonghua and English in Hong Kong under the "biliteracy and trilingualism" language policy (2019–2024). Journal of Chinese Language Education, 23(1), 16–35.
- Leung, W. M., & Wang, S. (2024). A study on the application of the "Chinese Language + General Studies" approach in teaching Chinese to non-Chinese speaking primary students in Hong Kong. Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, 5(229), 26-36.
- Leung, W. M. (2024). Chinese language and Chinese society: Formation of Chinese community in Thailand and the spread of Chinese. In Hung-lam Chu & Xiaorong Han (Eds.), Humanities and Sciences, 236–255. PolyU Press.
- Leung, W. M., & Wang, S. (2023). The Chinese writing proficiency of minority primary students in Hong Kong. In Ministry of Education & State Language Commission, Language situation in China: 2023. Part 6. Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, 229–235. Beijing, China: The Commercial Press.
- Leung, W.M., Ma, H.W. & Wang, S. (2022). Teaching effectiveness of Chinese reading and writing of non-Chinese speaking junior primary students in Hong Kong in the face of COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Chinese Language Education, 20(2), 68-92.
- Wong, T.S. & Leung, W.M. (2022). On a Historical Approach to Cantonese Studies: A Corpus-Based Contrastive Analysis of the Use of Classifiers in Historical and Recent Translations of the Four Gospels. In Riccardo Moratto & Defeng Li (Eds.), Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies, 281-299. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003298328-16
- Leung, W.M. (2022) Discipline-Specific Chinese Language Teaching in Higher Education: A Case Study in Hong Kong. In Haidan Wang & Christine Uber Grosse (Eds.), Chinese for Business and Professionals in the Workplace: Reaching across Disciplines, 270-284. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003014690-22
- Leung, W.M, Yuen, C. W., & Cheung, C. C. (Eds.). (2021). Learning Chinese through picture books story series [《讀繪本學中文》故事系列 ] [24 volumes, 2 exercise books]. Standing Committee on Language Education and Research and Development Project, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
- Leung, W.M. (2020). Database of the 19th Century (1865-1894) Cantonese Christian Writings (十九世紀中後期(1865-1894) 粵語基督教典籍資料庫). Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cbs/hkchristdb/#
- Leung, W.M., & Li, D.C.S. (2020). Biliteracy and Trilingualism: Language Education Policy Research in Hong Kong(兩文三語:香港語文教育政策研究). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press. ISBN 978-962-937-568-3. Paperback 282 pages.
- Leung, W.M., & Cheung, K.C.C. (2020). The Effectiveness of Picture Books in Expanding the Chinese Mental Lexicon of Non-Chinese Speaking Children: An Action Research in Hong Kong Kindergartens. Journal of Chinese Language Education, 18(2), 43-66.
- Leung, W.M. (2019). Analysis of Chinese Supporting Materials for Primary six South Asian Students in Hong Kong. Chinese Language Learning, 6, 94-102.
- Leung, W.M. (2018). Language Policy for the Ethnic Minorities in the Policy Address of Hong Kong. In Ministry of Education & State Language Commission, Language Situation in China: 2018, 237-242. Beijing, China: Commercial Press.
- Chan, S.D., Leung, W.M., Yuen, C.W., Zeng, J. & Ma, H.W. (2018). Supporting Teaching Materials for Non-Chinese Speaking Primary Students in Hong Kong: Design Rationale and Teaching Strategies. Journal of Chinese Language Education, 16(1), 38-59.
- Li, D.C.S. & Leung, W.M. (2018). On the South Asian students’ Chinese Learning and Policy Implementation in Hong Kong. Journal of Chinese Sociolinguistics, 2, 113-132.
- Leung, W. M. (2017). An empirical research on the use of Putonghua in Hong Kong. Applied Linguistics, 3, 79–90.
- Leung, W. M. (2016). Analysis of the subjectivity of sentence-final particles: The case of ze1 in Cantonese. Studies of the Chinese Language (Zhongguo Yuwen), 3, 339–348.
- Leung, W. M. (2016). Study on the strategies for promoting the Chinese language in the South Asian community in Hong Kong: Analysis of the actual language situation and education policy. In Y. Shen & D. Xu (Eds.), China language strategies, 53-64. Nanjing University Press.
- 2024 - 2026
Language Taboo: A Research Project on Hong Kong Cantonese Euphemisms, Lord Wilson Heritage Trust (Ref. No. CSTB/C 27/9/171/1) - 2023 - 2025
The weak among the weak: Research on Chinese language learning among ethnic minority children in rural primary schools in the New Territories of Hong Kong (Ref. No. P0046414), non-UGC project, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. - 2018 - 2021
An action research on cognitive pattern and learning strategy of Chinese characters by Non-Chinese speaking students in Hong Kong, Research & Development Grant, Standing Committee of Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) (Ref. No. EDB(LE)/P&R/EL/175V), HKSAR. - 2017 - 2019
Database construction of the 19th century (1860-1899) Cantonese Christian Writings in Hong Kong (link), Lord Wilson Heritage Trust (Ref. No. CSTB/C 27/9/171/1). - 2017 - 2018
Developing an e-Learning Course for Enhancing PolyU students' Putonghua competence in Chinese language communication requirement (LCR) framework, Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (Larger-scale collaborative project) (Ref. No. LEG16-19/SS/CBS2), UGC Funding Scheme, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. - 2016 - 2017
Using supplementary materials to enhance Primary 6 Non-Chinese students' Chinese ability: An action research, Research & Development Grant, Standing Committee of Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) (Ref. No. EDB(LE)/P&R/EL/164/4), HKSAR.
- 2024 – Present
Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education: Chinese Language Subject Committee. Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) - 2016 – 2021
Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education: Chinese Literature Subject Committee. Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)
- 2016/17
Teaching Excellence Award (Team Category). Team leader. Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - 2015/16
Outstanding Professional Service Award: Highest Growth Award. Team Member (Team Leader: Prof. CHAN Shui Duen). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Leung, W. M. (2024–present). A journey through ancient Chinese culture 中國古代文化巡禮 [Newspaper regular column]. Hong Kong Economic Journal (Education section). URL: https://edu.hkej.com/php/search.php?q=梁慧敏
- Li, D. C. S., & Leung, W. M. (2017–2020). Education Discourse 教育講論 [Newspaper regular column]. Hong Kong Economic Journal. URL: https://search.hkej.com/template/fulltextsearch/php/search.php?q=李楚成&page=1#top