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Hong Kong Sar

Research Assistant / Project Coordinator: July 2024 - PresentSenior Research Assistant (External Funding): July 2023 - July 2024Research Assistant: March 2022 - June 2023 • Lead the development and restructuring of online courses on Cantonese linguistics for Mandarin- and English-speaking learners, including project coordination (e.g., script writing and purchase of video production services) and management of online course platforms.• Drafted and compiled successful grant proposals and reports, including the Research Assessment Exercise, the Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG), and the D.H. Chen Foundation Grant, securing internal and external funding for the department.• Coordinate teaching and learning activities for University Chinese courses and Chinese Across the Curriculum program, including designing and implementing Chinese language enhancement activities for students in specific courses from different departments. • Produce publicity materials, e.g. social media posts and department newsletter, increasing the department’s online engagement with the wider community.• Served as secretary for the department, including the Chinese Language Teaching Team and a community of practice of the University Chinese courses, and a committee of research assessment exercise.

Hong Kong

• Provide consultations and language services, such as writing, editing, translating, and proof-reading • Work on a wide variety of formal and informal texts which include reports, speeches, advertisements, proposals, presentation slides, brochures, minutes, announcements, etc.• Manage clients from different sectors, i.e. higher education institutions, local publishers, kindergartens, marketing firms, TV broadcast companies, etc.

Hong Kong

Key responsibilities:• Draft, translate, edit, and proofread academic manuscript, academic proposal, research tool (e.g., questionnaire, material of experiment, etc.), report, grant application, publicity material, agreement, etc. • Collect and organise research data, and conduct literature review and literature search on Chinese Linguistics, Chinese Language Education, and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language• Conduct basic SPSS-based calculation and data managementKey Achievements:• Translated (Chinese-to-English) 6 academic manuscripts and edited 13 academic manuscripts on Chinese Linguistics and Chinese Language Education for publication, ensuring accuracy and adherence to journal guidelines.• Drafted 2 successful university-level grant proposals, securing over $200,000 in funding for research and academic projects aimed at establishing multilateral collaborations among the department and other top-ranking institutes within and beyond Asia, resulting in the exchange of expertise, joint publications, and increased visibility and impact for the department's research and teaching mission.• Editorial assistant for two academic publications: Character Teaching and Learning in L2 Chinese Classrooms: From Theory to Practice (published by Vietnam National University, Hanoi) and Teacher’s Handbook for Enhancement of Motivation in Learning Chinese Language (published by CHL, EdUHK), providing critical editing work and ensuring timely publication.• Supported a cross-disciplinary research commissioned by SCOLAR, Study on Transition of Chinese Language Learning and Teaching of Non-Chinese Speaking Children from Kindergarten Education to Primary Education, by proofreading and translating research materials and manuscripts.

Shatin, Hong Kong

Key responsibilities:• Conducted literature reviews, literature search, and research data organization regarding translation and history• Edited and proofread Chinese-to-English literary translation and Chinese academic articles for publication purpose• Facilitated manuscript transcription of English historical documents for further research Key achievement:• Participated in an ongoing project funded by the HKSAR government, researching into the historical documents regarding Sino-British history recently obtained from The National Archives, UK.

Hong Kong

• Assisted project leader in his project The “Jiuzhou” in the Bamboo book of Rongchengshi and legends in early China • Edited, translated and proofread articles and documents• Provided assistance in research data collection and management

Hong Kong

In charge of a Book Launch Ceremony and a Feature Article on Chu Tien-hsin’s Talk at Hong Kong Book Fair 2017, and had the following publications:• 《用眼睛去旅行 借文字當足印——聯合出版新書選粹》(Retrieved from http://www.master-insight.com/?p=35670)• 《文學盛世的遺民朱天心：讓恐龍在瓦礫中活着》(Retrieved from http://www.master-insight.com/?p=37633)

Tuen Mun, Hong Kong

Provided tailor made peer assisted learning via individual and group tutoring sessions to students in predetermined courses, and reported directly to the PLF Coordinator and the Teaching and Learning Centre.

Sabah, Malaysia

Responsible for Chinese Language class and History class in Form 1 and 2, and Mathematics class and World History class in Form 4.

Sabah

Sabah, Malaysia

The camp was to motivate the Primary Six Students who will be sitting for UPSR public examination by getting them prepared psychologically and mentally. They were to learn the methods of preparing for an examination and how to cope with stress and expectations from the surrounding and the students themselves. Also, they played a lot of team-building games which taught them the theories of living as a group as well as the meaning of growing up from a child at a primary school to a teenager at a secondary school.

Sabah, Malaysia

Joined by all the best Chinese Orchestras from the educational institutions in Sabah, Chinese Orchestra Festival is a biennial event in Sabah State which includes a Chinese Orchestra training camp at the first part of the event and public performance on a statewide arena at the end of the event. Famous and great Chinese Orchestra performers, tutors and conductors from Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China and Japan gather together with all the orchestras' members to carry out professional training consecutively for a week and to do a performance together on the stage finally, celebrating the outstandingly touching results, which are the successive Chinese arts, cultures and spirits, achieved by our Chinese ancestors on the earth of Malaysia.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Chinese Language And Literature

• Research interests: Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, cross-media literature production, literary criticism. • Master of Arts.

Chinese Language And Literature, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies, First Class Honours Degree In Bachelor Of Arts

Activities and Societies: Vice President (Academic Affairs) of Lingnan University Putonghua Debate Team in 2015/16 academic year.·.