Invited Talks

1. 2019, School of Foreign Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Finance, Guangzhou, China. Systemic Functional Linguistics and L2 writing studies: A first step to link theory to practice.

2. 2019, School of Education, Harvard University, Boston, USA. Interpersonal meaning-making in L2 writing: A systemic functional linguistics perspective.

3. 2018, School of Foreign Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Finance, Guangzhou, China. Introducing research synthesis in Systemic Functional Linguistics : the case of grammatical metaphor. 

4. 2018, New Scholars Forum, The Functional Linguistics Institute Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou China, Understanding interpersonal meaning-making in Chinese high school students’ ESL writing: A systemic functional perspective. 

5. 2018, School of Foreign Languages, Huizhou University, Huizhou China. How to integrate research into daily teaching? Insights from applying systemic functional linguistics. 

6. 2016, CPCE Research Seminar, Division of Language and Communication, Hong Kong Community College, College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Application of appraisal framework to the analysis of ESL writing: A case study.

Conference Papers

1. 2019 Writing Roundtable 2019: Storytelling in Academic and Creative Writing. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China. An investigation of Chinese adolescent L2 writers’ deployment of Theme : learning to do textual meaning-making 

2. 2019 29^th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, School of Technology and Management of IP Leiria. Portugal.  Understanding Logical Meaning-making in Chinese High School Students’ EFL Writing: A Systemic Functional Perspective.

3. 2019, 46^th International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Mastering the Discourse of Reflection: Interpersonal Meaning-making in College ESL Students’ Learning in Hong Kong.

4. 2018 Second International Conference on English Across the Curriculum, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR China. Understanding Meaning-making in First Year Marketing Students’ Presentation: Insights from Systemic Functional Linguistics.

5. 2018 28^th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, Pavia UniversityItaly. Mastering the Discourse of Summary Writing: Use of Projection at Advanced Level of Chinese as a Second Language Acquisition- A Longitudinal Study”.

6. 2018, 45^th International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress. Boston College, Boston, USA. Understanding interpersonal meaning-making in advanced Chinese ESL writing.

7. 2017 CAES International Conference. Centre of Applied English Studies, The University of Hong Kong. Teaching case analysis to college students: genre approach.

8. 2017 44^th International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress. University of Wollongong, Sydney Australia. An Exploratory Study of ESL Writing by Junior Secondary Students in China: Text Type, Register and Textual features. 

9. 2017 27^th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, University of Salamanca, Spain. The Construal of Experiential Meaning in L2 Writing by Junior Secondary Students: A Case Study.

10. 2017 Symposium on Second Language Writing, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Understanding Interpersonal Meaning-making in Chinese Adolescent ESL Writing: A Systemic Functional Perspective.

11. 2016 1^st Halliday-Hasan International Forum on Language and Inaugural Lecture Series. Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou China.

12. 2016 4^th Forum of Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou China. An exploratory study of genre-based pedagogy in the teaching of writing case analysis in college students writing.

13. 2016 11^th International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level, Department of English, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong China. Application of Genre-based pedagogy in the teaching of writing case analysis in communication studies- an exploratory study.

14. 2016 43rd International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress. Bandung, Indonesia. An exploratory study of L2 English writing by adolescent Chinese learners: systemic functional perspective.

15. 2016 26^th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference. Salzburg, Austria. An exploratory study of English letters written by adolescent Chinese ESL learners: Functional Perspective.

16. 2016 2nd English Scholar Beyond Borders. Taichung, Taiwan. A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent ESL Learners’ Written Texts.

17. 2016 New trends in Foreign Language Teaching International Conference, University of Granada, Spain. New Trends in Foreign Language Writing: Functional Perspective.

18. 2016 2nd Conference on Writing Education across Borders Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China. An Exploratory Study of Adolescent L2 Writing: Functional Perspective.

19. 2015 34^th Second Language Research Forum. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The predictive role of morphological awareness in ESL literacy acquisition: Testing mediation via vocabulary knowledge.

20. 2015 Symposium on Second Language Writing. Auckland New Zealand. Bilingual Children’s Writing Development: Functional Text Analysis Perspective –A Case Study.

21. 2015 42^nd International Systemic-Functional Congress. Aachen, Germany. Bilingual Children’s Writing Development: Functional Text Analysis Perspective –The Case of Hong Kong.

22. 2015 Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics (GURT 2015). Interpersonal Meaning-Making in the Letters of Adolescent Chinese EFL Learners’: An Appraisal Analysis.

23. 2015 AAAL2015 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Fairmont Royal York, Toronto, Canada. Bilingual Children’s Writing Development: Functional Text Analysis Perspective –A Case Study.

24. 2014 17^th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, Brisbane Australia. How meaning potential is instantiated through modality in Chinese adolescent ESL learners’ English writing: the case of Guangzhou, China.

25. 2014 1st International Systemic Functional Congress and the X Latin-American Systemic Functional Congress. A longitudinal study of adolescent ESL learners’ written texts.

26. 2014 Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics (GURT 2014). Tracing the development of a multilingual meaning potential: ESL adolescent writers in China.

27. 2013 12^th Symposium on Second Language Writing. The underrepresented theoretical lens in L2 writing study—A longitudinal study of English texts written by Chinese adolescent ESL learners: systemic functional text analysis.

28. 2013 40th International Systemic-Functional Congress. How far have we come? A synthesis of research on grammatical metaphor in Systemic-Functional Linguistics.

29. 2013 11^th International Conference on Chinese Pedagogy. Circumstantial elements deployment in intermediate CSL learners’ written text—A corpus-based study.

30. 2012 23^rd European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop. Longitudinal case study of Form 3 ESL students’ writing based on systemic functional text analysis.

31. 2011 12^th National Systemic-Functional Congress, Nanjing, China. Analysis of two sets of CSL writing textbooks: functional perspective.

32. 2011 38^th International Systemic-Functional Congress. Circumstantial elements in Chinese high school students’ English writing.2011 4^th Conference of the Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics. Circumstantial elements in high school students writing: A case study xxx was this refereed or not? I think we can delete this one. Anyway, it doesn’t matter, what do you think?

33. 2012 National Discourse Analysis Conference, Foreign Language School, University of Inner Mongolia. A study of CSL writing textbook from a text typology perspective.

34. 2011 4^th Postgraduate Research Symposium, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou. Circumstantial element in international students’ Chinese writing—A corpus-based study.

35. 2011 International Symposium on Chinese as a Second language, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou. Analysis of CSL writing textbook: functional text typology perspective.