27.4032, Support: Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics / Hong Kong

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Subject: 27.4032, Support:  Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics / Hong Kong

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:45:39
From: Michael Yeldham [myeldham at hku.hk]
Subject: Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics, PhD, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

 Institution/Organization: The University of Hong Kong 
Department: Centre for Applied English Studies 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics 
 

Description:

The Centre for Applied English Studies encourages applications for Ph.D or M.
Phil positions from candidates whose research interests match those of the
Centre. A scholarship is available to an outstanding applicant (or
applicants), while those with the equivalent of honours grades in their
Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees are eligible for positions as self-funded
students (currently costing HK$42,100 per year for full-time PhD students –
roughly US$5,400). 

The Centre has special expertise in a number of areas. It is particularly
strong in linguistics as applied to English language education at university
level.

Possible supervisors are: Professor Ken Hyland, Dr. Peter Crosthwaite, Dr.
David Gardner, Dr. Ken Lau, Dr. Cynthia Lee and Dr. Michael Yeldham.

Our supervisors’ research interests can broadly be classified into five areas:

- Discourse Studies - academic and professional literacies; corpus
linguistics; discourse analysis (including written and spoken); second
language writing; writing across the curriculum.
- English Language Teaching - classroom interaction; curriculum development;
ESP/EAP; L2 listening; pronunciation and phonology; task-based learning;
teaching and learning pragmatics.
- Language Learning - autonomous learning; computer-assisted language
learning; individual differences, learning styles and strategies; learner
corpora and data-driven learning; psycholinguistics; second/third language
acquisition; self-access learning, video processing.
- Methodological Approaches - research methods; systemic functional
linguistics.
- Sociolinguistics - conversation analysis; cross-cultural communication;
computer-mediated communication; English as a Lingua Franca (particularly in
relation to language policies); interlanguage and intercultural pragmatics;
politeness; speech acts.

Postgraduate Admissions Advisor: Dr. Michael Yeldham, Fax 25473409, e-mail
myeldham at hku.hk

Application can be made at any time of the year, although we generally advise
scholarship applicants to aim for the main round deadline in early December by
submitting their application before the end of November (for admission in
September of the following year).

Potential applicants should contact the Postgraduate Admissions Advisor, Dr.
Michael Yeldham, in the first instance, giving brief information about
research interests, along with a CV which should include qualifications,
university grades, and any recent English test scores if required (IELTS,
TOEFL, etc). Under no circumstances should an applicant send identical
enquiries to several supervisors. This will create confusion about who should
be replying to you and thus cause a delay in our response.

For further details on formal application procedures, please see the Faculty
of Arts page.

For general information regarding research postgraduate admission, please see
the Graduate School page.

Proposal Requirements: To apply, you will need to identify a research topic
and write a research proposal, which includes a review of the literature, and
your research questions and research methodology, along with expected findings
and significance of the study. Proposals are usually between 5 and 6 pages
long, single spaced (not including references and appendices). The study
should preferably have relevance to the Hong Kong/China context, or to the
wider applied linguistics context.

It is a policy of the University of Hong Kong to check for plagiarism in all
research proposals. Please contact the Secretary, Sanny Kwok (wskwok at hku.hk)
for further instructions on this procedure when you are ready to submit; for
scholarship applicants, preferably in early November before the official
submission deadline.
 

Application Deadline: 30-Nov-2016 

Web Address for Applications: http://www.gradsch.hku.hk/gradsch/rola/important_notes.htm 

Contact Information: 
	Dr Michael Yeldham 
	myeldham at hku.hk  


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