Dr. Lisa Cheung

Lisa has been actively involved in the teaching of a range of postgraduate and undergraduate English enhancement courses on academic and professional communication, and has extensive experience in developing corpus-based learning resources and their integration with classroom teaching.

Lisa is the Centre’s Quality Enhancement Coordinator (Teaching and Learning). In this new role, she mainly promotes good practices in teaching and learning, supports pedagogical innovations, and facilitates collaboration with coordinators and teachers in the enhancement of teaching and learning in the Centre. She also works with the Teaching and Learning Committee to formulate new policy, in consultation with relevant staff, for the design, management and delivery of CAES courses and communication support services arising from feedback from different stakeholders (e.g. students, teachers, Faculties, external examiners, CLEDL, HKU, UGC etc.)

She is currently the Coordinator for Mentoring, overarching responsibility for mentoring within CAES to engage more staff in structured mentoring, provide training opportunities for new mentors, and identify ways for further enhancing the quality and impact of mentoring in CAES.

She was the Chair of the Publicity and Outreach Committee for five years (2020-2025) during which she led the team to pull together the CAES mission, strategic direction, and intended outcomes. Lisa also led the Centre’s development project on Students as Partners (2020-2022), which utilized HKU students’ expertise and experience as a student to contribute equally to ‘teaching and learning process’ and ‘enhancement of teaching and learning policy or practices’.

Lisa has extensive experience in course coordination in CAES. She was the Programme Coordinator for the English courses for the Faculty of Dentistry for over 10 years, during which she received a couple of funded projects to develop and revamp the English-in-the-Discipline course for Year 5 Dentistry students. She had also served on the Faculty Board of Arts for six years. Following that she was the Deputy Programme Coordinator for the Faculty of Arts from 2022-2024 during which she coordinated the CAES9201 and 9205 courses for students from the Faculty of Arts.

Lisa’s main research interests include: corpus linguistics, reflective writing and English for Specific Purposes. She has a track record of success in both research publications and grant applications (a total of four completed and two on-going research funded projects). Her first co-authored book on understanding the language of dentistry is a proof of research-informed pedagogical practices in the Dentistry course that she had coordinated for over 10 years (e.g. additional course module on ‘hedging’ in response to research findings).