Ad hoc reviewer of academic journal articles
- Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
- Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition
- Second Language Research
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
- Lingua
- Glossa
Public talks, interviews and media exposure
- 10-2017 [M for Mother] 破解學語言的迷思
- 04-10-2017 [Hello Singapore, Channel 8 News] 职总优儿学府将同港大合作 研究幼童掌握母语能力
- 12-12-2017 [CUHK Press Release] CUHK Announces the Launch of the World’s First Child Heritage Chinese Language Corpus and the Establishment of the University of Cambridge – CUHK Joint Laboratory for Bilingualism
- 12-12-2017 [CUHK Press Release] 中大宣布推出全球首個華裔兒童漢語語料庫暨成立劍橋大學-香港中文大學雙語研究聯合實驗室
- 13-12-2017 [Sing Tao Daily] 華裔童接觸多語言 中大研究：助奠根基 全球首設 漢語語料庫
- 13-12-2017 [HK01] 中大推全球首個華裔兒童漢語語料庫 記錄三語學習歷程
- 13-12-2017 [Ming Pao Daily News] 學者：幼兒學英語毋須「犧牲」漢語
- 13-12-2017 [Wen Wei Po] 中大研究揭學中文不必犧牲英語
- 13-12-2017 [Metro Daily] 兒童在家聽不同語言 能培養雙語或三語能力
- 13-12-2017 [Oriental News] 僅說英文未必好 接觸多語言助幼兒建三語能力
- 12-06-2018 [HK01] 【兩文三語】學英文不需犧牲中文 中大教授：要欣賞孩子活用雙語
Assessing language and cognitive abilities in multilingual children
I am familiar with the following assessment tools, and have worked with a number of local and overseas nursery schools and kindergartens to assess their children’s language and cognitive abilities using these tools, the results of which inform both parenting practices and school curriculum development:
- MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDIs), English, Mandarin and Cantonese versions
- Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence™ – Fourth Edition (WPPSI™ – IV)
- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fourth Edition (PPVT™-4), English version
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Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation 3 (GFTA-3)
- Mandarin Receptive Vocabulary Test (MRVT, Chan, Lee and Yip, 2015)
- Cantonese Receptive Vocabulary Test (CRVT, HKSAR)
We employ a combination of the above tests with individual multilingual children, hoping to gain a full picture of their language development. We have accumulated a good amount of data in the process, which feed into our unique multilingual database and inform our research.
