Dr. Locky Law

Locky began his English language teaching career immediately after he received his BSc in Computer Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. While he was teaching in various commercial English learning centres, primary schools, secondary schools, and tertiary institutions, he continued his studies and obtained his CertTESOL at Trinity College London, and both MA in English Language Teaching and PhD in Linguistics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has taught corpus linguistics, computer-mediated communications, and sociolinguistics at bachelor’s and master’s levels in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, as well as EAP and ESP in the Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES), the University of Hong Kong.

He specialises in linguistic theories, the creation and development of linguistic models, corpus creation and quantitative analysis. He has published in journals such as Computer and Education Open, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Corpora, and Linguistics and Human Sciences. His areas of research interests are creativity, multimodality, GenAI, digital literacy, digital game discourse, telecinematic discourse, social media discourse, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), computer-assisted language learning and teaching, learning transfer, EAP and ESP. His research inventions and innovations include the analysis of creativity using SFL, digital creativity multimodal analysis (DCMA), multiversal inter-reality analysis (MIrA), partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) for EAP, and the world’s first APA 7th edition referencing style stylesheet for Microsoft Word.