Research interests:

• Academic discourse
• Second language writing
• Writing pedagogy
• Genre
• Corpus analysis
• Feedback and teacher-learner interaction
• Hedging and modality

Projects:

• Messages in tutor responses to students’ writing in English. GRF Funded Project 745610. HK$ 509,303

• Innovation and change in English language education. Unfunded book project with Lillian Wong.

• Persuasion and dialogue in research writing. Unfunded project.

• Academic publishing: episodes in the construction of knowledge. Unfunded project.

• Academic literacy in the new Hong Kong university curriculum. Unfunded project.