Our Projects

PROJECTS
INTRODUCTION

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PROJECTS

Correction of wrongly-written characters in professional texts, Test and Correction on Cantonese ‘lazy’ pronunciation, A Flipped Classroom for Cantonese Learning (中文自學室)

Project funding start and end date: July 2017 – Mar 2019

Over the years, many scholars have conducted various studies on wrongly written characters. However, the discussion mostly starts from the traditional perspective of phonetics and meanings, and seldom discusses it in depth from the aspects of style and context. "Professional texts" in this project means the practical texts written in specific occasion or professional settings. Students producing wrongly-written characters is linked with the style and context. For example, the form of the characters 辦 (to do) and 辨 (to distinguish) are very similar. Mistakes are mostly found in event proposals. This project aims at enhancing students' accuracy in writing, training students to use appropriate written language in different context, enhancing their writing skills and achieving effective communication.

A Flipped Classroom for Cantonese Learning (翻轉粵語教室)

Project funding start and end date: June 2020-Oct 2021

Cantonese is the most commonly spoken language in Hong Kong. By learning Cantonese and understanding its daily expressions, students from around the world coming to Hong Kong can cope with everyday communication situations and integrate into society more successfully. In view of this, we have developed this customized online Cantonese learning platform, namely “A Flipped Classroom for Cantonese Learning”, to provide multi-media self-learning materials in line with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Cantonese courses to allow students to prepare the content of each unit with learning tools such as the Internet and smart-phones before they have interactive Cantonese lessons in real classrooms. It is hoped that the platform can help enhance students’ learning effectiveness.

Test and Correction on Cantonese 'Lazy' Pronunciation

Project funding start and end date: July 2017 – Mar 2019

According to teachers' observations during classes, more and more students become less aware of their pronunciation. They often have some incorrect pronunciations or lazy pronunciations. For example, pronounce “講解”(explain) as“趕解” (not differentiating between /n/ and /ng/), “女仔” (girl) as “呂仔” (not differentiating between /n/ and /l/), do not differentiate between “過” (pass) and “個” (ignoring differences between /gw/ and /g/), etc. This project aims at aiding our graduates to become proficient in Chinese and be able to communicate confidently in Cantonese.　Students can enhance their knowledge in Cantonese, reduce the pronunciation errors in learning or at work, improve the pronunciation accuracy so as to achieve effective communication. Online teaching materials in the website include “Cantonese Lazy Pronunciation Online Test”, “Cantonese Phonological System” and “Correcting Lazy Pronunciations”.