Research - Associate Professor (Teaching); Associate Dean for Common Core Education; Head, Language Education Division

Dr. GONG Wengao

Title:

Associate Professor (Teaching); Associate Dean for Common Core Education; Head, Language Education Division

Education Background:

Doctor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore
Master of Arts (by research), National University of Singapore

gongwengao@cuhk.edu.cn

Office Address

Room1208, Teaching Complex B

Phone

Teaching Area

Grammatical Analysis; Corpus Linguistics; Applied Linguistics

Other

Research

Language on social media; corpus linguistics; second language acquisition

Personal Website

Research List

Dr. Gong's research interests include: Langugage on social media; language and identity representation on social media; corpus linguistics; and second language acquisition.

Smoother Transition from Preschool to Primary School for Singaporean Children: What Should We Do to Make it Happen?

Obtained a research grant of S$6,870 from the Ministry of Social and Family Development, Singapore in 2012 (Project No. ECRF-11-09; Project title: “Smoother Transition from Preschool to Primary School for Singaporean Children: What Should We Do to Make it Happen?”).

Building a Singapore Learner Corpus of English Writing for Pedagogy

Obtained a research grant of S$248,870 from the Singapore Ministry of Education as the first Co-PI and main proposal drafter of a project entitled “Building a Singapore Learner Corpus of English Writing for Pedagogy” in 2011 (Project No. OER 21/10 GLB).