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.

As the Chair of the Publicity and Outreach Committee, she leads 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 is the Deputy Programme Coordinator for the Faculty of Arts since 2022-2023 and is coordinating the CAES9201 and 9205 courses in the 2023-24 academic year. Prior to this new leadership role, she had been 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.

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.

Lisa 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). With a solid background in Corpus Linguistics, Lisa believes that Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to play a pivotal role in corpus linguistics research, offering learners a new perspective of AI-human dialogues in understanding language use in a variety of domains and registers. CorpusChat is an innovative pedagogical tool in her arsenal, integrating LLMs into a corpus analysis tool to enrich students’ AI-powered learning experiences.