CHAN, Yuet Hung Cecilia
Biography
Associate Professor and Associate Head, Department of Linguistics and Translation
City University of Hong Kong
Dr. Chan holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Her academic pursuits primarily focus on First and Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, and Applied Linguistics. She supervises research students investigating the acquisition of Chinese by non-native speakers and the acquisition of English by Chinese speakers. She has served as a Specialist appointed by the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications for several years, during which she has contributed to the accreditation of academic programmes at the tertiary level.
Research Interests
- First Language Acquisition -The relationship between vocabulary development and cognition
- Second Language Acquisition- Grammar and vocabulary learning in a second language
- Sociolinguistics - Sound variations and change
- Applied Linguistics – Second language teaching
Key Publications
- Hawkins, R. & Chan Y.H.C. (1997) The partial availability of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition : the 'failed functional features hypothesis'. Second Language Research,13(3), 187-226.
- Chan, Y.H. C.(2009) Implications of a study on L2 interlanguage phonology for the learning of L2 pronunciation: The phonological variants of the syllable initial /n-/ in L2 English produced by Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong. Proceedings of the 18th Inte
- Katsos, N. et. al. (Cecilia Chan Y.H., one of the authors) (2016) Cross-linguistic Patterns in the Acquisition of Quantifiers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(33), pp 9244-9249.
- Wang J. & Chan Y.H.C. (2021) A Feature-based Approach to the Acquisition of L2 Chinese Negation by L1-English and L1-Korean Learners", Lingua, 252, 103018. doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2020.103018
- Yu, M., & Chan, Y. H. C. (2023). Modelling the relationships among teacher instruction, learner belief, and learning strategies in Chinese character learning by alphabetic learners. Journal of Chinese Writing Systems, 7(4), 272-288.