• Teaching & Learning

    • Ms CHU Yin Yee, Sophina （朱彥而女士）
    MA (CUHK)
    BA (HKSYU)

    Lecturer

    Tel : (852) 3963 5573
    Email :
    sophinachu@hsu.edu.hk


    Before joining the Department of English at HSUHK, Ms Sophina Chu had been working in the research field on projects related to the education of English pronunciation in Hong Kong. She has also been coaching tertiary students in university English. Ms Chu obtained an MA in English (Literary Studies) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a BA in English from Hong Kong Shue Yan University. She hopes to pursue a PhD and her research interests include monster theory, gender studies, children’s literature, Gothic literature and ecocriticism.

    TopRecent academic activities
    Conference
    • 2024 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (ALLT)
    Theme: “Re-visiting and Re-imagining Multi-modalities, Multi-literacies, and Multi-pedagogies in ELT” Paper presented: “Diagnostic assessments in boosting tertiary students’ EFL performance: A Case Study of a 15-hour IELTS workshop” Organised by Dept. of Applied Foreign Languages National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Research Assistant in the following research projects
    • Language attitudes in teaching English and Chinese as a lingua franca: The choice of pedagogical models. General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council (2020-2023) (HK$ 819,712).
    • Developing an intelligibility-oriented approach to teaching and assessing English pronunciation in Hong Kong. Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR), Research and Development Projects (2018-2021) (HK$2,355,439.8).
    • Developing a lingua franca approach for English language education in Hong Kong. Early Career Scheme (ECS), Research Grants Council (2016-2019) (HK$660,490).
    Co-editor
    • Chan, J. Y. H., & Lo, M. M. (2021). Pronunciation Teaching in Hong Kong: Towards an intelligibility-oriented approach. (A project funded by the Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research in the University of Hong Kong and Research and Development Projects of the Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR), Hong Kong SAR Government (Ref. No: EDB(LE)/P&R/EL/175/13).
    Thesis
    • Chu, Y. Y. (2018). Queering a Monster: A Queer Reading on 19th Century Gothic Poetry (Master Thesis, CUHK)
    Book Review
    • Chu, Y. Y. (2021, November 2). Sophina Chu reflects on Hong Kong’s racial politics in the context of Jasper Fforde’s allegorical novel. [Review of the book The Constant Rabbit, by Jasper Fforde]. Hong Kong Review of Books. https://hkrbooks.com/2021/11/02/hkrb-essays-the-constant-rabbit/.