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Briefing on CBS4701 Project in Language Studies
BACBS
Feb 29, 2016(Last updated: Mar 1, 2016)
Capstone briefingOverview
Overview
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Capstone briefingOverview
General information
▶ CBS4701 Project in Language Studies▶ 6 credits at Level 4. Compulsory.
▶ Individual project▶ Each project must have a supervisor
▶ Recommended: 6 hours of consultation▶ Meeting schedules mutually agreed by supervisor and
supervisee▶ Supervisees should take initiative in seeking consultation
▶ Project period: Sem 1 - Sem 2, 2016-17▶ Alternative project periods require special approval from
supervisor, block coordinator, and BACBS programme leader.GPA requirement may apply.
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Capstone briefingOverview
Topic area and project type
Topic area Project typeAsian Languages andLinguistics, and AreaStudies
Research project
Bilingual CorporateCommunication
Research project or internship
Linguistics Research projectTranslation Translation project
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Capstone briefingProject requirement
Project requirement
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Capstone briefingProject requirement
Asian Languages and Linguistics, and Area Studies(research project)
▶ Students will explore an issue or a problem in languageeducation, language testing, and/or Korean/Japaneselanguage and linguistic studies, supervised by an academicstaff member in the related field
▶ What to submit▶ An academic research report▶ 6,000 - 8,000 words in English excluding front matters, tables,
figures, references and appendices▶ For more detailed project requirement, check
http://www.cbs.polyu.edu.hk/yaoyao/capstone.html
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Capstone briefingProject requirement
Bilingual Corporate Communication (research project)
▶ Students will explore an issue or a problem in sociolinguistics,media, corporate communication, etc., supervised by anacademic staff member in the related field
▶ What to submit▶ An academic research report▶ 6,000 - 8,000 words in English excluding front matters, tables,
figures, references and appendices▶ For more detailed project requirement, check
http://www.cbs.polyu.edu.hk/yaoyao/capstone.html
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Capstone briefingProject requirement
Bilingual Corporate Communication (internship)
▶ Only a designated selection of internship programmesorganised by CBS may fulfil Capstone project requirement
▶ Student applicants will be vetted by employers. Onlysuccessful applicants may join these internship programmes tofulfil the Capstone project requirement
▶ Internship period may depend on employer’s requirement▶ For more detailed project requirement, check
http://www.cbs.polyu.edu.hk/yaoyao/capstone.htmlor contact Ms Chan Yee Kwan, Valentina 陳怡君(ykvchan@polyu.edu.hk)
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Capstone briefingProject requirement
Linguistics (research project)
▶ Students will explore an issue or a problem in linguisticresearch, supervised by an academic staff member in therelated field
▶ What to submit▶ An academic research report▶ 8,000 - 10,000 characters in Chinese or 6,000 - 8,000 words in
English, excluding front matters, tables, figures, references andappendices
▶ For more detailed project requirement, checkhttp://www.cbs.polyu.edu.hk/yaoyao/capstone.html
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Capstone briefingProject requirement
Translation (translation project)
▶ Students will complete a piece of translation work, supervisedby an academic staff member in the related field
▶ What to submit▶ A report including
▶ Translator’s introduction (≥ 1,500 words in English)▶ Source text (≥ 6,000 characters in Chinese or 8,000 words in
English)▶ Target text
▶ For more details, see the Appendices section onhttp://www.cbs.polyu.edu.hk/yaoyao/capstone.html
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Capstone briefingMatching with supervisor
Matching with supervisor
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Capstone briefingMatching with supervisor
Matching process
Step 1 (Mar 1 - 15) Students indicate choices of supervisors.Up to 3 choices per student.(Note: Students with nil input will berandomly matched in Step 3.)
Step 2 (Mar 16 - 31) Supervisors choose among their 1st-choice applicants.
Step 3 (Early April) Remaining students and supervisors willbe matched by Capstone coordinators.Efforts will be made to match studentswith their 2nd or 3rd choice of supervisor.
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Capstone briefingMatching with supervisor
More on Step 1: Indicate your choices of supervisor in aGoogle Form https://goo.gl/x89Uy6
▶ Due Mar 15▶ Up to 3 choices▶ Resubmit to change
your choices
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Eligible supervisors
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Asian Languages and Linguistics, and Area Studies
Professor and Associate DeanProf Chan Shui Duen 陳瑞端
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Chinese language education▶ Bilingual studies (from linguistic or
sociolinguistic perspectives)▶ Email: chsdchan@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Asian Languages and Linguistics, and Area Studies
Associate ProfessorDr Szakos Jozsef 蔡恪恕
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Austronesian linguistics▶ Language documentation
▶ Email: ctszaki@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Asian Languages and Linguistics, and Area Studies
Associate ProfessorDr Zhu Xinhua 祝新華
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Students’linguistic and cognitive
features on performing reading orintegrated writing tasks
▶ Email: ctxhzhu@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Asian Languages and Linguistics, and Area Studies
Assistant ProfessorDr Kim Sun-A ⾦善娥
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Reading Chinese or Korean as a
foreign language▶ Email: ctskim@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Asian Languages and Linguistics, and Area Studies
Assistant ProfessorDr Teruya Kazuhiro 照屋⼀博
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Functional grammar▶ SL/FL language teaching▶ Language comparison between
Japanese, English and/or Chinese▶ Discourse analysis
▶ Email: ctteruya@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Asian Languages and Linguistics, and Area Studies
Research Assistant ProfessorDr Aoyama Reijiro 青⼭玲⼆郎
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ China-Japan intercultural
communication in business▶ Japanese culture and society▶ Cultural anthropology▶ Migration and diaspora
▶ Email: raoyam@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Asian Languages and Linguistics, and Area Studies
Interim Director of CLC and Research Assistant ProfessorDr Leung Wai Mun 梁慧敏
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Chinese Language Teaching for
south-east Asian students▶ Varieties of Written Chinese
▶ Email: wmleung@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Asian Languages and Linguistics, and Area Studies
Teaching FellowMs Han Hae Min 韓惠珉
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Teaching Korean as a foreign
language▶ Email: hmhan@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Asian Languages and Linguistics, and Area Studies
Teaching FellowMs Matsumoto Masumi 松本真澄
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Education management▶ Curriculum and class management▶ Leadership and team work▶ Motivation
▶ Email: ctmasumi@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Asian Languages and Linguistics, and Area Studies
Teaching FellowMs Sim Sin Ae 沈信愛
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Second language sound perception
and production▶ Teaching Korean to
Mandarin/Cantonese speakers▶ Email: sasim@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Bilingual Corporate Communication
Associate ProfessorDr Wu Dong Ying 吳東英
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Sociolinguistics▶ Media communication
▶ Email: ctdwu@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Bilingual Corporate Communication
Assistant ProfessorDr Ngai Sing Bik, Cindy 魏城璧
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ New Media and Corporate
Communication▶ Linguistic and Visual Sign in
Corporate Communication▶ Email: ctcindy@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Bilingual Corporate Communication
LecturerMr Ng Pak Kei, Patrick 吳柏基
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Bilingual strategies in persuasive
corporate communication▶ Verbal and Nonverbal signs as
cultural signs in interculturalcorporate communication
▶ Email: ctpat@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Bilingual Corporate Communication
Teaching FellowMs Chan Yee Kwan, Valentina 陳怡君
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ BCC Internship
▶ Email: ykvchan@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Linguistics
Chair ProfessorProf Huang Chu-ren 黃居仁
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Linguistic synaesthesia and other
non-literal meanings▶ Chinese lexical semantics, including
the semantics of alphabetic words▶ Email: ctcrh@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Linguistics
Chair ProfessorProf Wang Shi Yuan, William 王⼠元
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Language, cognition, and the brain▶ Language, evolution, and the brain
▶ Email: wsywang@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Linguistics
Associate Head and Associate ProfessorDr Fung Suk Yee, Roxana 馮淑儀
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Synchronic or diachronic sound
changes in Cantonese▶ Email: ctsyfung@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Linguistics
Assistant ProfessorDr Chan Wing Shan, Angel 陳詠珊
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Child language acquisition (specific
topics can be but need not berelated to speech therapy)
▶ Childhood bilingualism (specifictopics can be but need not berelated to speech therapy)
▶ Email: ctaachan@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Linguistics
Assistant ProfessorDr Lee Yat Mei 李逸薇
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Chinese linguistics▶ Corpus linguistics
▶ Email: ymlee@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Linguistics
Assistant ProfessorDr Liu Yi 劉藝
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Chinese education
▶ Email: chyliu@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Linguistics
Assistant ProfessorDr Yao Yao 姚瑤
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Phonetics and phonology of Chinese
languages▶ Language of food
▶ Email: ctyaoyao@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Linguistics
Assistant ProfessorDr Zhang Caicai 張偲偲
▶ Broad area of scholarship▶ Neurolinguistics
▶ Email: caizhang@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Linguistics
Assistant ProfessorDr Zhang Xiaoheng 張小衡
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Chinese-English machine translation
▶ Email: ctxzhang@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Linguistics
Research Assistant ProfessorDr Chen Si, Sarah 陳思
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Phonetics and phonology
▶ Email: sarahchen@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Linguistics
Research Assistant ProfessorDr Cheung Chi Hang, Candice 張志恆
▶ Broad area of scholarship▶ Chinese linguistics
▶ Email: chccheun@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Linguistics
Research Assistant ProfessorDr Hsu Yu Yin 許又尹
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Modifiers of noun phrase in
Cantonese and Mandarin▶ The use of 都 in Cantonese
▶ Email: yyhsu@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Linguistics
Teaching FellowDr Wu Wing Li 胡永利
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ An acoustic and perceptual study of
Cantonese sentence-final particles▶ Email: wlezrawu@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Translation and Intrepreting
Associate Head and Associate ProfessorDr Li Dechao 李德超
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Translation Studies▶ Translation practice
▶ Email: ctdechao@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Translation and Intrepreting
Assistant ProfessorDr Cheung Kay Fan, Andrew 張其帆
▶ Broad area of scholarship▶ conference interpreting
▶ Email: ctandrew@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Translation and Intrepreting
Teaching FellowDr Hui Ting Ting, Maggie 許婷婷
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Translation projects
(English–>Chinese;Chinese–>English)
▶ Email: tthui@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Translation and Intrepreting
Teaching FellowDr Li Wenjing 李⽂靜
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Literature▶ Current affair
▶ Email: wj3li@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Translation and Intrepreting
Teaching FellowDr Tien Yuk, Sunny 鄭旭
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Literary translation
▶ Email: ystien@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingEligible supervisors
Translation and Intrepreting
Visiting LecturerDr Cheung Hei Yee Anthea
▶ Suggested Capstone topics/areas▶ Translation
▶ Email: cheung.anthea@polyu.edu.hk
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Capstone briefingQ & A
Q & A
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Capstone briefingQ & A
Question?
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Capstone briefingQ & A
The end.Thanks.
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