Core Faculty – MASLA

Department of Chinese Language and Literature

Distinguished Professor

• Jie XU, Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park,
  Comparative study of Chinese and English

Associate Professor

• Mingyu WANG, Ph.D., Ritsumeikan University,
  Comparative studies – English and Chinese
• Zhong CHEN, Ph.D., Fudan University,
  Cognitive linguistics

Assistant Professors

• Hongyong LIU, Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
  Syntax
• Jingwei ZHANG, Ph.D., Utrecht University,
  Language Variation and Change
• Shan WANG, Ph.D., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
  Second Language Acquisition and Linguistics
• Yuhang XU, Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
  Chinese dialectology and Chinese phonology

Department of Portuguese

Associate Professors

• Ana Margarida Belém NUNES, Ph.D., University of Aveiro,
  Phonetics
• Antunes de ARAUJO Gabriel, Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,Contact Linguistics and Phonology

Assistant Professors

• Ricardo Moutinho Rodrigues da SILVA, Ph.D., University of Macau,
  Acquisition of Portuguese as Foreign and Second Language
• Roberval Teixeira e SILVA, Ph.D., Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro,
  Interactional Sociolinguistics
• Jing ZHANG, Ph.D., University of Macau,
  Second Language Acquisition and Linguistics
• Yuqi SUN, Ph.D., Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul,
  Language Acquisition (L2/L3) and Pragmatics
• Sara Gonçalves dos SANTOS, Ph.D., University of Macau,
  Second Language Acquisition
• Ana Luísa Varani LEAL, Ph.D., University of Evora,
  Portuguese Linguistics and Computational Linguistics

Department of English

Professors

• Antony John KUNNAN, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles,
  Language assessment

Associate Professors

• Hok-Shing CHAN, Brian, Ph.D., University of London,
  Bilingualism
• Andrew Jackson MOODY, Ph.D., University of Kansas,
  Language variation
• Guanfang ZHAO, Cecilia, Ph.D., New York University,
  Academic writing

Assistant Professors

• Ion Wa FONG, Ronald, Ph.D., University of Hong Kong,
  Cognitive linguistics
• Younhee Helen KIM, Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa,
  SLA
• Io Kei KUONG, Joaquim, Ph.D., Georgetown University,
  SLA
• Matthew WALLACE, Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University,
  Applied linguistics