1.

In search of the Criteria for Evaluating a Learner's Dictionary (with Yvonne Loong)

CityU Starter Grant No. 9100038 (Principal Investigator)

May - October 1995

Investigating Common English Errors in Hong Kong - Focus on Faulty Predication and Parallelism

CityU Small-Scale Grant No. 9030672 (Principal Investigator)
August 1998 - July1999

Investigating Students' Use of Monolingual Dictionaries in Learning English as a Second Language

CityU Small-Scale Grant No. 9030673 (Principal Investigator)
August 1998 - July 1999

Evaluating Dictionaries for Learners of English: What the Reviews Say (with Andrew Taylor)

CityU Small Scale Grant No. 9030751 (Co-Principal Investigator)

July 1999 - March 2000

Secondary School Placements for Tertiary Level Language Teacher Educators (with Steve Tauroza and others)

UGC Interface between Tertiary and Schools Sector Project No. 1308.2120004 (Associate Investigator)

Completed: Starting from June 1998

Assessing Crosslinguistic Influence from Chinese to English: Toward a Taxonomy of Interlingual Errors in Hong Kong Chinese ESL Learners' Interlanguage (with David Li)

CityU Strategic Research Grant No. 7000975 (Associate Investigator)

August 1999 - October 2000

Consciousness raising in the ESL Classroom: Assessing the Effectiveness of Negative Feedback in Class on the Acquisition of English by Hong Kong Chinese ESL Learners  (with David Li and Becky Kwan)

CityU Strategic Research Grant 2000 - 2001, No. 7000998 (Co-Principal Investigator)
September 2000 - August 2002

Investigating Cantonese ESL Learners' Acquisition of English Final Consonants- A Study to Assess the Validity of the Markedness Differential Hypothesis for Second Language Phonology Acquisition by Cantonese Students in Hong Kong 

CityU Strategic Research Grant No. 7001320 (Principal Investigator)

September 2002 - June 2004

The Acquisition of Initial English Consonant Clusters by Cantonese Learners of English as a Second Language: A Study to Test the Interlanguage Structural Conformity Hypothesis and the Markedness Differential Hypothesis

CityU Strategic Research Grant No. 7001502 (Principal Investigator)
June 2003 - May 2005

An Investigation into the Perception and Production of English Speech Sounds by Cantonese ESL Learners in Hong Kong

CityU Strategic Research Grant No. 7001749 (Principal Investigator)
Converted

An Investigation into the Perception and Production of English Speech Sounds by Cantonese ESL Learners in Hong Kong

RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant No. 9041057 (Principal Investigator)

January 2006  - June 2008                                                    

The Use of Grammatical Information in Monolingual Dictionaries in the Learning of English as a Second Language: Effects on Language Comprehension and Production

CityU Strategic Research Grant No. 7008005 (Principal Investigator)
October 2009 - September 2011

The Acquisition of the English Definite Article by Cantonese ESL Learners in Hong Kong

CityU Strategic Research Grant No. 7004095 (Principal Investigator)
October 2013-Setptember 2014

The Acquisition of English Articles by Cantonese ESL Learners in Hong Kong

General Research Fund Grant No. 9042095 (Principal Investigator)

January 2015 - June 2017

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