RIBiLT 2025 Webinar Series: Child Language Development
Mode: Via Zoom
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| Session 1 | Bilingual Language Acquisition in Children with Down Syndrome Dr Rebecca Ward, University of South Wales 28 November 2025 (Fri) | 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM (HKT, UTC+8) (More details) |
| Session 2 | How Children Learn from Multimodal Communication: Prosody, Gesture, and the Structure of Input Dr Yan Gu, University of Essex & University College London 03 December 2025 (Wed) | 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM (HKT, UTC+8) (More details) |
| Session 3 | What Counts? How Child Mandarin Informs the Countability Debate Prof. Aijun Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 05 December 2025 (Fri) | 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM (HKT, UTC+8) (More details) |
| Session 4 | Contextual Strategies for Enhanced Chinese Word Recognition: Cultivating University Students in the Development of Tools for Early Childhood Literacy Dr Dorothy Tong, Hong Kong Metropolitan University 10 December 2025 (Wed) | 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM (HKT, UTC+8) (Details TBC) |
| Session 5 | When Social Speech Signals are not Favoured: Enhancing the Use of Speech Prosody in Autistic Children through Perceptual Training and Human-Robot Interaction Dr Si Chen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 17 December 2025 (Wed) | 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM (HKT, UTC+8) (More details) |
25 August 2025RIBiLT Seminar:Balancing Learner Agency and Teacher Guidance in AI Integrated Writing PedagogySpeaker: Dr Chak-Lam Colum Yip Please click here for the video recording | |
11 August 2025RIBiLT Webinar:On the Syntax-Semantics Interface of Fuzzy Quantifiers in Mandarin Chinese and EnglishSpeaker: Dr Yueming Sun Please click here for the video recording | |
4 August 2025RIBiLT Seminar:When Hearing Fades: Exploring the Cognitive Roots of Communication Difficulties in Older AdultsSpeaker: Prof. Hin Tat Cheung Please click here for the video recording | |
1-2 August 2025RIBiLT Symposium:Symposium on Language Development in Chinese-speaking Populations with Special NeedsSpeakers: Prof. Hin Tat Cheung, Prof. Zhuoming Chen, Prof. Xin Kang, Prof. Bin Li, Prof. Qun Li, Prof. Fang Liu, Prof. Shuo Lu, Prof. Wen Ma, Prof. Zhaoli Meng, Prof. Li Sheng, Prof. Yi Su, Prof. Ping Tang, Prof. Caicai Zhang, Dr. Haoyan Ge Please click here for more details Please click here for the video recordings | |
13 June 2025Hong Kong Mathematics Education Conference 2025Keynote Speakers: Please click here for more details | |
30 April 2025RIBiLT Webinar:A Multimodal Program to Enhance Bilingual Learning and Teaching: Our Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistic PraxisSpeaker: Prof. Ruth Harman Please click here for the video recording | |
24 April 2025RIBiLT Webinar:Rhetorical relations in applied linguistics research articles: An analysis of introductions and conclusions from the perspective of two functional theoriesSpeaker: Dr. Daniel Rodríguez Vergara Please click here for the video recording | |
17 April 2025RIBiLT Webinar:Developing the ‘code’: Empowering students to succeed in advanced academic English contextsSpeaker: Dr. Cassi Liardet Please click here for the video recording | |
10 April 2025RIBiLT Webinar:The interaction between home language and school language development: evidence from Ghana, South-Africa and ZimbabweSpeaker: Dr. Lieke Stoffelsma Please click here for the video recording | |
21 February 2025RIBiLT Symposium:Celebrating Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: An International Symposium on Preparing Language Teachers for Global ClassroomsSpeakers: Prof. Icy Lee, Dr. Benjamin Moorhouse, Prof. Gail Forey, Prof. Sheena Gardner, Dr. Barry Bai, Prof. Christian Matthiessen Please click here for more details Please click here for the video recording | |
24 January 2025RIBiLT Seminar Series:Exploring Autistic Discourses on TwitterSpeaker: Dr. Cassi Liardet Please click here for the video recording | |
20 January 2025RIBiLT雙語教學研究所:國際中文教學教育碩士研討會系列講座 – IB、AP理念與國際中文教學主講﹕施仲謀教授 請按此觀看錄影片段 |
13-14 December 2024RIBiLT The 28th International Conference on Yue DialectsSpeakers: Professor Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Professor Sze-Wing Tang, 庄初升教授 Please click here for more details Please click here to access the video recording of Professor Giorgio Francesco Arcodia’s keynote speech Please click here to access the video recording of 庄初升教授 keynote speech | |
8 November 2024[RIBiLT Key Issues in English for Academic Purposes Seminar Series]Technology for EAP : Insights into technology-Enhanced EAP provision in Hong Kong and AustraliaSpeaker: Dr. Peter Crosthwaite Please click here for the PowerPoint | |
1 November 2024[RIBiLT Key Issues in English for Academic Purposes Seminar Series]Academic vocabulary learning in higher education: Implications from a multifaceted study of English language learnersSpeakers: Dr. Edsoulla Chung & Dr. Daniel Fung Please click here for the PowerPoint | |
18 October 2024[RIBiLT Key Issues in English for Academic Purposes Seminar Series]Appreciating linguistic repertoire: The role of multilingual identity in language educationSpeaker: Professor Linda Fisher Please click here for the PowerPoint | |
2024年10月9日RIBiLT 國際中文教學教育碩士網路研討會系列﹕二語學習中的輸入輸出與互動協同主講﹕周小兵教授 | |
4 October 2024[RIBiLT Key Issues in English for Academic Purposes Seminar Series]Backward engineering the concept of ‘task’ in TBLT for EAPSpeaker: Dr. Jonathan Newton | |
19 August 2024RIBiLT Inclusive Education Seminar:Understanding Linguistic Diversity in Ethnic Minority Students for Inclusive Education PlanningSpeaker: Professor Cheung Hin Tat Please click here for the video recording | |
2024年3月12日 RIBiLT雙語教學研究所國際中文教學教育碩士網路研討會系列﹕理論與實踐－淺談國際學校中文課程的設置主講﹕曾登高博士 | |
2024年3月5日RIBiLT雙語教學研究所國際中文教學教育碩士網路研討會系列﹕語言學本體研究與二語教學的有機結合：以語體、話題現象為例主講﹕陶紅印教授 | |
2024年2月20日RIBiLT雙語教學研究所國際中文教學教育碩士網路研討會系列﹕以「續」促學—「續論」在漢語二語教學中的應用研究主講﹕張麗博士 請按此觀看錄影片段 | |
2024年1月30日RIBiLT雙語教學研究所國際中文教學教育碩士講座系列﹕香港非華語學生學習中文的現況與學習進程框架的設計和應用主講﹕許守仁博士 請按此觀看錄影片段 | |
26 January 2024RIBiLT Appliable Linguistics and Language Education SymposiumSpeakers: Professor Andy Gao, Professor Melinda Whong, Dr. Jack Pun Please click here to access the video recording of the morning session Please click here to access the video recording of the afternoon session |
2023年11月23日RIBiLT 國際中文教學教育碩士網路研討會系列﹕句子與認知結構的關係 —以對外漢語教學為例主講﹕寸熙教授 請按此觀看錄影片段 | |
17 November 2023RIBiLT Systemic Functional Linguistics Webinars Series:Systemic Functional Linguistics as a Resource in Language Education: System Networks Representing Options in Meaning MakingSpeaker: Prof. Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen Please click here for the video recording | |
10 November 2023RIBiLT Systemic Functional Linguistics Webinars Series:Exploring the Literacy Demands and Coping Strategies in EMI Classrooms: A Case Study of Science Teachers and Students in Hong KongSpeakers: Dr. Jack Pun Please click here for the PowerPoint | |
3 November 2023RIBiLT Systemic Functional Linguistics Webinars Series:Writing to Evaluate: A Synthesis of Appraisal Studies at Different Levels of EAP WritingSpeaker: Dr. Winfred Xuan Please click here for the video recording | |
2023年10月26日RIBiLT 國際中文教學教育碩士網路研討會系列﹕國際學校中文教師素養與教師定位主講﹕賴春博士 請按此觀看錄影片段 | |
20 October 2023RIBiLT Systemic Functional Linguistics Webinars Series:Metafunctional journey through Spanish, with an emphasis on contrasts with EnglishSpeaker: Professor Jorge Arus Hita Please click here for the video recording | |
2023年10月12日RIBiLT 國際中文教學教育碩士網路研討會系列﹕知行合一與人才成長 — 傳統育人理念的現代實踐主講﹕周小兵教授 請按此觀看投影片（*投影片只供學習用，嚴禁引用） | |
2023年7月14日RIBiLT Chinese Language and Linguistics Webinar Series中國語文及語言學網上研討會系列﹕粵語語法演變的探索 – 以完整體標記為例主講﹕郭必之教授 請按此觀看錄影片段 | |
29 June 2023RIBiLT Chinese Language and Linguistics Webinar Series:Scalar particles and discourse structureSpeaker: Dr. Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai Please click here for the video recording | |
23 June 2023RIBiLT Chinese Language and Linguistics Webinar Series:Comprehension of Core Grammar in Diverse Samples of Mandarin-Acquiring Preschool Children with ASDSpeaker: Dr. Yi (Esther) Su Please click here for the video recording | |
23 May 2023RIBiLT Chinese Language and Linguistics Webinar Series:Phonetic Approaches to Examining Speech Production and Perception Under Adverse ConditionsSpeaker: Dr LI Bin Please click here for the video recording | |
12 May 2023RIBiLT Chinese Language and Linguistics Webinar Series:A Semantic Study of Approximative Sentence-Final Particles in CantoneseSpeaker: Professor Peppina Po-lun Lee Please click here for the video recording | |
2023年4月30日「聾人語文教育的路與徑」網上研討會主講﹕ 李慧心教授、鄧惠儀小姐、薛海暉先生、 路駿怡小姐、黃耀良先生、呂俊潁老師、 潘若詩小姐 請按此查閱新聞犒 請按此觀看錄影片段 | |
31 March 2023RIBiLT Technology in Language Learning and Teaching Webinar Series:Using Online Experimental Tools to Study Language Learning and ProcessingSpeaker: Dr Kang Xin Please click here for the video recording | |
2023年3月23日RIBiLT Chinese Language and Linguistics Webinar Series中國語文及語言學網上研討會系列﹕漢字本義的研究主講﹕單周堯教授 請按此觀看錄影片段 | |
10 March 2023RIBiLT Technology in Language Learning and Teaching Webinar Series:Refining the Community of Inquiry as a Framework for Understanding Online Language Learning Processes, Perceptions and OutcomesSpeaker: Dr LIN Chin-Hsi Please click here for the video recording | |
24 February 2023RIBiLT Technology in Language Learning and Teaching Webinar Series:Classroom Applications of the Antconc 4 Corpus ToolkitSpeaker: Prof Laurence Anthony Please click here for the PowerPoint | |
17 February 2023RIBiLT Technology in Language Learning and Teaching Webinar Series:Digital Game-Based Learning of Information Literacy for Academic Writing: Effects of Gameplay Modes on University Students Writing Performance, Motivation, Self-Efficacy and Flow ExperiencesSpeaker: Dr Zou Di Please click here for the video recording | |
10 February 2023RIBiLT Technology in Language Learning and Teaching Webinar Series:How to Choose the Most Appropriate Technology for My Multimodal Language Learning Environment?Speaker: Prof Jozef Colpaert Please click here for the video recording |
18 November 2022RIBiLT English Language Learning and Teaching Webinar Series:Epistemic Positioning by Science Students and Experts: A Divide by Applied and Pure DisciplinesSpeaker: Prof. Jiang Feng, Kevin Please click here for the video recording | |
4 November 2022RIBiLT English Language Learning and Teaching Webinar Series:English for Academic Purposes – Towards Specific CoursesSpeaker: Prof. Ken Hyland Please click here for the video recording | |
28 October 2022RIBiLT English Language Learning and Teaching Webinar Series:Uncovering the Language Goal in EMI Assessment: What Students Need To LearnSpeakers: Dr. King Tat Daniel Fung Please click here for the video recording |
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17 October 2022RIBiLT & One City One Book:Table Magic: On Translating Yam Gong’s PoetrySpeakers: Mr. James Shea & Dr. Dorothy Hiu Hung Tse | |
14 October 2022RIBiLT English Language Learning and Teaching Webinar Series:Developing Resilience in Second Language ReadingSpeaker: Dr. Sihui Echo Ke Please click here for the video recording | |
7 October 2022RIBiLT English Language Learning and Teaching Webinar Series:Queering Applied Linguistics: Global Perspectives on Language Learning, Gender, and SexualitySpeaker: Dr. Benedict Rowlett Please click here for the video recording |
27 August 2021RIBiLT Child Development Webinar Series:Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Engaging Young Children in (Digital) LearningSpeaker: Dr. Weipeng Yang |
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13 August 2021RIBiLT Child Development Webinar Series:Children's magazines: A brief walk through of the twentieth centurySpeaker: Dr. Faye Dorcas Yung Schwendeman |
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6 August 2021RIBiLT Child Development Webinar Series:Creative Digital Art for Young Children: Theory and PracticeSpeaker: Dr. Suzannie Leung |
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28 May 2021RIBiLT Corpus Research Webinar Series:A Learner Corpus Is Born This Way: Design, Demonstration and DirectionSpeakers: Dr. Danny Leung, Dr. Vanliza Chow, Dr. Emily Ge |
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30 April 2021RIBiLT Corpus Research Webinar Series:What linguistic features distinguish and predict L2 writing quality? A study of examination scripts written by adolescent Chinese learners of English in Hong KongSpeakers: Prof. Cynthia Lee, Dr. Edsoulla Chung, Dr. Emily Ge |
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16 April 2021RIBiLT Corpus Research Webinar Series:Analyzing writing quality: Insights from Chinese composition writing among Hong Kong secondary school studentsSpeaker: Dr. Hinny Wong |
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26 March 2021RIBiLT Corpus Research Webinar Series:Word profiling in corpus research: Going beyond frequencySpeaker: Prof. Laurence Anthony |
15 October 2020RIBiLT:Second Language Learners’ Regulated Learning and Self-efficacy Beliefs in Peer Collaborative WritingSpeaker: Dr. Christy Xuyan Qiu | |
23 September 2020RIBiLT:Rethinking polysemy: An all-in-one framework for Cantonese dak1Speaker: Dr. Cherry Chit-Yu Lam Please click here for the video recording | |
27 August 2020RIBiLT:Comprehension of focus in Cantonese: Comparison between children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and typically developing childrenSpeakers: Dr. Ge Haoyan Emily |
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7 November 2019Seminar:Analyzing Bottom-Up and Top-Down Language Patterns Using Corpus Linguistics MethodsSpeaker: Prof. Laurence Anthony Please click here for the video recording | |
21 September 2019Seminar:Strategic Communication for Success in the Business WorldSpeaker: Dr. April Liu | |
20 September 2019Seminar:Speaking English This WaySpeakers: Dr. Danny Leung Please click here for PowerPoint slides |
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11 December 2018Seminar:支援有特殊教育需要的幼兒：回顧和展望Speaker: Ms. Nancy Tsang | |
19 November 2018Seminar:生涯規劃半步詞Speaker: Mr. Chris Shum | |
25-27 October 2018Topic: 2018 International Conference on Bilingual Learning and TeachingSpeakers: Prof. Laurence Anthony, Prof. Jeannette Littlemore, Please click here for more details | |
22 June 2018Seminar:You Are What You SPEAK – Accurate English Pronunciation and Fluent English SpeakingSpeaker: Dr. Danny Leung | |
24 May 2018Seminar:Post 3.11 Japanese Children’s Books and Subculture – Picture, Manga, Anime and FilmSpeakers: Mr. Akira Nogami & Dr. Miki Takeuch | |
12 April 2018Seminar:European Bilingual Education Policy and Model in Bologna processSpeakers: Prof. Zhao Shuo | |
11 April 2018Seminar:On Multiculturalism of Bilingual Education 雙語教育的多元文化研究—以歐盟國家為例Speakers: Prof. Zhao Shuo | |
11 April 2018Seminar:半步來詞—歌詞創作的創意與實務Speakers: Mr. Chris Shum Please click here for the video recording | |
19 March 2018Round Table Seminar:The Discrepancies among Teaching Chinese as the First Language, Second Language and Heritage Language以中文為母語、第二語及華裔傳承語言的教學差異Speakers: Prof. Hsin Shih-chang | |
16 March 2018Seminar:The Diversification of Chinese Languages & Cultures and the Principles of Chinese Language Education華人語言文化之多元性與漢語教學之處理原則Speakers: Prof. Hsin Shih-chang | |
7 March 2018Seminar:從「差強人意」到「強差人意」――一個正在發生的語言變異Speakers: Prof. Zhu Qingzhi | |
22 February 2018Seminar:Second Language Acquisition and Teaching L2 Chinese Reading第二語言習得與華語文閱讀教學Speakers: Prof. Tseng Chin-chin | |
22 January 2018Seminar:Symbols of Human Wisdom – The quintessence of Chinese characters, relics and culture智慧的印記: 漢字﹑文物與文化擷萃Speakers: Prof. Cheung Kwong Yue |
30 October 2017Seminar:Doing ethnographic studies in Hong Kong schoolsSpeaker: Prof. CC Lam | |
14 September 2017Seminar:Current issues in studies of Modern Chinese Language 現代漢語研究現狀Speaker: Prof. Shi Jianguo Please click here for the video recording | |
1 September 2017Distinguished Professor Seminar Series 2017:Language and Culture in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language 華語教學中之語言與文化Speaker: Prof. Tseng Chin-Chin Please click here for the video recording | |
19 August 2017Distinguished Professor Seminar Series 2017:In Class Pronunciation Diagnosis through PBL method and Acoustic Spectrogram: a Study on Chinese as a Second Language利用問題導向模式結合聲學語音圖示進行課堂語音診斷教學：以對外漢語學習者為例Speaker: Prof. Tseng Chin-Chin Please click here for the video recording | |
18 August 2017Distinguished Professor Seminar Series 2017:Introducing Department of Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal UniversitySpeaker: Prof. Tseng Chin-Chin | |
18 May 2017Distinguished Professor Seminar Series 2017:English Medium Instruction: A cost-benefit analysisSpeaker: Prof. Ernesto Macaro Please click here for the video recording | |
17 May 2017Distinguished Professor Seminar Series 2017:Introducing EMI OxfordSpeaker: Prof. Ernesto Macaro | |
16 May 2017Distinguished Professor Seminar Series 2017:English Medium Instruction: Which English and how much EnglishSpeaker: Prof. Ernesto Macaro Please click here for the video recording | |
3 May 2017Workshop:Designing a needs analysis study: The case of Math Curriculum Review studySpeaker: Prof. CC Lam | |
24 February 2017Distinguished Professor Seminar Series 2016-17:How Assessments Can Support Learning: Teachers’ roles, Teachers’ KnowledgeSpeakers: Prof. Liz Hamp-Lyons Please click here for the video recording | |
21 February 2017Distinguished Professor Seminar Series 2016-17:Why is assessment literacy important? And to whom?Speakers: Prof. Liz Hamp-Lyons Please click here for the video recording | |
23 January 2017Distinguished Professor Seminar Series 2016-17:Metaphor and the Language LearnerSpeakers: Prof. Jeannette Littlemore | |
21 January 2017Distinguished Professor Seminar Series 2016-17:Metaphor and AdvertisingSpeakers: Prof. Jeannette Littlemore Please click here for the video recording | |
20 January 2017Distinguished Professor Seminar Series 2016-17:Figurative Language in Cross-linguistic Communication and Language TeachingSpeakers: Prof. Jeannette Littlemore |
20 December 2016Workshop:Applying Cognitive Linguistics to L2 Figurative Learning and TeachingSpeakers: Dr. Danny Leung & Dr. Vanliza Chow | |
9 December 2016Distinguished Professor Seminar Series 2016-17:New Chinglish and the Post- Multilingualism ChallengeSpeaker: Prof. Li Wei | |
6 December 2016Distinguished Professor Seminar Series 2016-17:Translanguaging As a Theory of Language: Some Conceptual and Methodological ConsiderationsSpeaker: Prof. Li Wei Please click here for the video recording |
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15 November 2016Workshop:Prof. Li Wei: A Remarkable Scholar in the Field of BilingualismSpeakers: Prof. Robin Yang | |
12 August 2016Workshop:Code-switching as Peer Scaffolding in L2 Chinese Writing: A Case of Ethnic Minority Learners in a Hong Kong Secondary SchoolSpeakers: Ms. Cheung Ching Ching |
