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Dr Jim Chan

Lecturer in TESOL

  • Address: School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
    Room 1.35
    King George VI Building
    缅北禁地
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

Background

Jim Y.H. Chan is Lecturer in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at 缅北禁地 and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Before joining 缅北禁地, he was previously Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Senior Teaching Fellow and MA TESOL programme Director at Aston University, Birmingham, and Assistant Lecturer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He began his career as a secondary English and Science teacher.

 

His research interests include World Englishes (WE), English as a lingua franca (ELF), Teaching English as an International Language (EIL) (e.g., curricula, materials and teaching approaches), language use, attitudes and identities, phonology, bilingual education, language-in-education policy, and Collaborative Online International Learning. Some of his recent work has been published in TESOL Quarterly, Language Teaching Research, World Englishes, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Language and Education, System, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, RELC Journal and Asian Englishes.



Research

Research Interests

  • English as a lingua franca
  • World Englishes
  • Language use, attitudes and identities
  • Teaching English as an international language (pedagogy, assessment and materials design)
  • Bilingual education policy and practice (e.g., English Medium Education, Content and Integrated Learning)


Projects

  1. British Council, Transnational Exploratory Grant (2025-2026) (£25,000) Joint postgraduate programme development between Turkey and the UK: removing barriers and sharing good practice (Co-Investigator)
  2. HaSS Education Development Fund (2023-2024) (£2,996.21) Student-teachers’ COIL experience in teacher education: Opportunities, challenges and the direction ahead (Principal investigator)
  3. Erasmus+, European Commission (2022-2023) (EUR 900,099) Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration (MultiEd) (Project coordinator)
  4.  General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council (2020-2023), HKSAR (HK$ 819,712) Language attitudes in teaching English and Chinese as a lingua franca: The choice of pedagogical models. (Principal investigator)
  5. Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR), Research and Development Projects, HKSAR (2018-2022) (HK$2,355,439.8) Developing an intelligibility-oriented approach to teaching and assessing English pronunciation in Hong Kong. (Principal investigator)
  6. Early Career Scheme (ECS), Research Grants Council (2016-2019) (HK$660,490) Developing a lingua franca approach for English language education in Hong Kong. (Principal investigator)
  7.  Insight Development Grant, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada (2016-2019) (CAD$64,999) How states promote global English. (Collaborator, with Professor Peter Ives, Dr Jeff Bale and Dr Eve Haque)
  8. University Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research, The University of Hong Kong (2016-2018) (HK$149,891) English language Education in Hong Kong: Tracing the development of the changing ideologies and methodologies in curricula, assessments and textbooks. (Principal investigator)
  9.  Faculty Teaching Development Fund, The University of Hong Kong (2016-2019) (HK$ 77,250). Internationalising the MEd(LAC) Programme – Developing a Blended-Learning Mode. (Principal investigator, with Professor Angel Lin and Dr Yuen Yi Lo)
  10. Dean’s Innovation Fund, The University of Hong Kong (2016-2018) (HK$245,118). Leading Asia via the MSc-CLIL (Master of Science in Content and Language Integrated Learning) Programme. (Co-investigator, with Professor Angel Lin and Dr Yuen Yi Lo)


Supervision of Completed PhD/EdD Dissertations

  1. Liu, Z. (PhD). Resisting standard language ideology among Chinese learners of English: Bridging the gap between theory and practice.
  2. Choi, Y. A. N. (PhD). Critical ethnography of language policy, critical discourse analysis, language ideology.
  3. Qu, J. (PhD). Integrating content and language learning: An ethnographic study of instructional practices and professional development.
  4. Chiba Mereu, A. (EdD). Managing group rapport: An investigation of disagreement in academic ELF group discussion.
  5. Tang, W. P. (PhD). Consonant cluster variations in Hong Kong English: An attitudinal study.
  6. Rui, X. (PhD). Effects of teacher collaboration on students' language and content acquisition in a CBI class at a Chinese university.
  7. Ho, S. L. (EdD). Exploring effects of direct feedback and indirect coded feedback in an EFL classroom in Hong Kong.
  8. Yeung, Y. Y. (EdD). Teachers' development through cross-curricular collaboration between English and subject teachers.
  9. Wang, W. (PhD). Ideological constructions of English in a Chinese university.
  10. Zhu, Q. (PhD). Chinese undergraduates’ engagement with peer feedback: Perceptions and practices.
  11. Niu, Y. (PhD). Regional inequities in English pronunciation development in high schools in Mainland China: An ethnographic case study.
  12. Huang, F. (PhD). The semiotic landscape of a university campus: Discursive place-making and ideological framing of a contemporary higher education institution in Hong Kong.
Teaching

Current Teaching

Postgraduate

  • ALC8025 English Language Teaching Methods (Core for MA ALT) (2023-2024)
  • ALC8020 Research Methods for Applied Linguistics (Core for MA ALT) (2023-2024)


Previous teaching

Postgraduate

  • LEM119 Theory and practice in English language teaching (Core for MA TESOL) (2022-2023)
  • LEM117 Language Awareness (Core for MA TESOL) (2021-2023)
  • LEM115 English Teaching Practice (Core for MA TESOL) (2021-2023)
  • LEM114 Research Topics in TESOL (Elective for MA TESOL) (2022-2023)
  • EDUR7083 Discourse analysis in language education research (Elective for MPhil/PhD/EdD students) (2020-2021)
  • EDUR8020 Sociocultural perspectives on English language education (Elective for MPhil/PhD/EdD students) (2020-2021)
  • MAES7004 Sociolinguistics and English language education (core course for MA(TESOL) students) (2016-2021)
  • MEDD6709 An introduction to sociolinguistics (core course for MEd students) (2015-2021)
  • MEDD6701 Phonetics and phonology for English language teaching (core course for MEd students) (2015-2019)
  • EDUR6011 Qualitative research methods II (core course for MEd students) (2018-2019)
  • Research project/dissertation supervision (MEd, MA(TESOL))


Undergraduate

  • LE1100 English across time and space (core for BA Lang) (2022-2023)
  • LE2118 Advanced topics in sociolinguistics (core for BA Lang) (2022-2023)
  • BBED6782 Dissertation (elective for BA&BEd students) (2019-2021)
  • EDUC4620 Pedagogical content knowledge (English) II (core course for BA&BEd students) (2015-2016)
  • BBED4223 Pedagogy III Learning and teaching English in secondary school(Oracy)(core course for BA&BEd students) (2015-2016)
  • Teaching practicum visits (primary and secondary) – English language education
  • Dissertation supervision (BA&BEd)
Publications

  • Articles

    • Chan JYH, Leung M. The Role of Pragmatic Competence in English Language Education in Taiwan and Hong Kong: A Comparative Analysis of Curricula and Assessments from a Global Englishes Perspective. Special issue in RELC Journal 2026. In Preparation.
    • Chan JYH. . Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 2025, 14(1-2).
    • Chan JYH, Zhang WW, Tavares NJ, Walsh S. Getting Ready for Teaching: Reflective Practice in Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Teacher Education. Teacher and Teacher Education 2025. In Preparation.
    • Chan JYH. (Re)conceptualising the teaching of English and Chinese as pluricentric languages: A Hong Kong perspective. System 2025. In Preparation.
    • Chan JYH, Walsh S. . International Journal of Applied Linguistics 2024, 34(1), 183-205.
    • Chan JYH. . Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 2026, 47(1), 581-605.
    • Chan JYH. . Language Assessment Quarterly 2022, 19(1), 1-26.
    • Chan JYH. . Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 2021, 10(1), 141-165.
    • Chan JYH. . System 2021, 101, 102609.
    • Chan, JYH. Towards English as an international language: The evolving English language curricula and textbooks in Hong Kong (1975-present). The International Journal of Applied Linguistics 2020, 30(2), 244-263.
    • Chan JYH. . Language Teaching Research 2020, 25(5), 729-753.
    • Chan, JYH. The choice of English pronunciation goals: different views, experiences and concerns of students, teachers and professionals. Asian Englishes 2019, 21(3), 264-284.
    • Chan, JYH. Gender and attitudes towards English varieties: Implications for teaching English as a global language. System 2018, 76, 62-79.
    • Chan JYH. . Journal of Asia TEFL 2018, 15(2), 257-275.
    • Chan, JYH. Attitudes and identities in learning English and Chinese as a lingua franca: A bilingual learners’ perspective. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 2018, 39(9), 759-775.
    • Chan, JYH. Stakeholders’ perceptions of language variation, English language teaching and language use: The case of Hong Kong. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 2017, 38(1), 2-18. Submitted.
    • Chan, JYH. The Fine-tuning medium-of-instruction policy in Hong Kong: A case study of the changing school-based test papers in science subjects. Education Journal 2016, 44(1), 159-193.
    • Chan, JYH. Contextualising a pedagogical model in English-language education: The case of Hong Kong. World Englishes 2016, 35(3), 372-395.
    • Chan, JYH. A multi-perspective investigation of attitudes towards English accents in Hong Kong: Implications for pronunciation teaching. TESOL Quarterly 2016, 50(2), 285–313.
    • Chan, JYH. Fine-tuning language policy in Hong Kong education: Stakeholders’ perceptions, practices and challenges. Language and Education 2014, 28(5), 459-476.
    • Chan, JYH. Exposure to accents and pronunciation modelling: A case study of a secondary school in Hong Kong. The International Journal of Applied Linguistics 2014, 24(3), 390–415.
    • Chan, JYH. An evaluation of the pronunciation target in Hong Kong’s ELT curriculum and materials: Influences from WE and ELF?. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 2014, 3(1).
    • Chan, JYH. Towards a lingua franca pedagogical model in the Hong Kong classroom: A sociolinguistic enquiry. Asian EFL Journal 2013, 15(3), (3), 183-216.
    • Chan, JYH. The role of situational authenticity in English language textbooks. RELC Journal 2013, 44(3), 303-317.
    • Chan, JYH. Contextual variation and Hong Kong English. World Englishes 2013, 32(1), 54-74.
    • Chan, JYH. A week in the life of a ‘finely tuned’ secondary school in Hong Kong. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 2013, 34(5), 411-430.
    • Chan, JYH, Evans, S. Choosing an appropriate pronunciation model for the ELT classroom: A Hong Kong perspective. Journal of Asia TEFL 2011, 8(4), 1-24.

  • Authored Book

    • Chan JYH, Lo MM. . Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2026. In Press.

  • Book Chapters

    • Chan JYH. Putonghua in Hong Kong: Past, present and future. In: Bolton,K; Bacon-Shone, J; Luke, KK; Lee,SL, ed. Multilingual Hong Kong. Routledge, 2026. In Preparation.
    • Chan JYH, Tavaras N, Li Y. . In: Tavares, V; Melo-Pfeifer, S, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Internationalization of Language Education. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. In Press.
    • Choi N, Chan JYH. Debilitating Discourses of Diversity: English Language Education Disguised as Multilingual Education in Hong Kong. In: Tavares, V, ed. Critical Perspectives on Diversity in English Language Education and Research. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. In Preparation.
    • Chan JYH, Chan WS. . In: Chan M, ed. Perspectives on Teaching Workplace English in the 21st Century. London: Taylor & Francis, 2023, pp.89-114.
    • Chan WS, Chan JYH. . In: Lin, KL; Mwinlaaru, IN; Tay, D, ed. Aspects of Specialized Genres: Research and Applications. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2021, pp.137-152.
    • Chan, JYH. Contextualising teaching English as a local/global language: A bottom-up sociolinguistic investigation. In: Fang, F; Widodo, HP, ed. Critical Perspectives of Global Englishes in Asia: Language Policy and Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment. Multilingual Matters, 2019.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Satar M, Chan JYH, Wang Y. . In: The Learning and Teaching Conference 2025. 2025, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne.
    • Chan JYH. . In: 23rd Asia TEFL International Conference 2025. 2025, Hong Kong: Springer. In Press.
    • Tavares NJ, Chan JYH. . In: 59th RELC International Conference: Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts. 2025, Singapore: SEAMEO RELC. In Press.
    • Chan JYH. . In: The Learning and Teaching Conference 2025. 2025, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne.
    • Liu Z, Chan JYH. . In: The 23 AsiaTEFL 2025 International Conference. 2025, Hong Kong, China. In Press.
    • Chan JYH. . In: ELF 14 (14th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca). 2024, Prague, Czech Republic.
    • Chan JYH. . In: Invited Knowledge exchange seminar. 2024, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地.
    • Chan JYH. . In: The 21st AILA World Congress. 2024, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Aila 2024.
    • Tavares N, Chan JYH. . In: Invited HKU TALIC COIL Seminar Series. 2024, Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong.
    • Chan JYH. . In: Invited Departmental Seminar. 2024, Taipei: English Department, National Taipei University of Technology.
    • Chan JYH, Tavares NJ. . In: Advanced HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2024. 2024, Nottingham: Advance HE.
    • Tavares NJ, Chan JYH. . In: 21st AsiaTEFL Conference. 2023, Korea: AsiaTEFL.
    • Chan JYH. . In: Departmental Seminar. 2023, Taiwan: English Department, National Taipei University of Technology.
    • Chan JYH. . In: 57th RELC International Conference. 2023, Singapore.
    • Chan JYH. . In: Departmental Research Seminar, Aston University. 2022, Birmingham, UK.
    • Chan JYH. . In: The AsiaTEFL-TEFLIN-iNELTAL Conference 2022. 2022, Malang, Indonesia.
    • Chan JYH. . In: 13rd International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca. 2022, Taiwan.
    • Chan JYH. Designing Research Projects (Invited Seminar). In: Departmental Seminar, English Department, Fu Jen Catholic University. 2022, Taiwan: Fu Jen Catholic University.
    • Chan JYH. . In: Sociolinguistics Symposium 23. 2021, Hong Kong.
    • Chan JYH. . In: The World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2021). 2021, Virtual: International Association of Applied Linguistics.
    • Chan JYH, Chan WS. . In: The 5th Asia-Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC2020). 2020, Korea: Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Association (APCLA).
    • Chan, JYH. Towards English as an international language: The evolving English language curricula, examination papers and textbooks in Hong Kong (1975-2016) (Invited Seminar). In: Departmental Research Seminar, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2019, Hong Kong.
    • Chan, JYH. Four decades of ELT development in Hong Kong: Impact of global theories on the changing curricula, assessments and textbooks. LML Research Seminar (Invited Seminar). In: The Education University of Hong Kong. 2019, Hong Kong.
    • Chan, JYH. Forty years of world Englishes research and its impact on English language education in Hong Kong. In: The 24th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE). 2019, Ireland.
    • Chan, JYH, Chan, WS. An intelligibility-oriented approach to teaching Hong Kong English pronunciation. In: The Fifth International Conference on Linguistics and Language Studies. 2019, Hong Kong.
    • Chan, JYH. Four decades of English language education in Hong Kong: the evolving teaching methods and designs in curricula, textbooks and assessments. In: The 16th Asia TEFL International Conference. 2018, Macau.
    • Chan, JYH. English as a lingua franca (ELF) and research into language attitudes (Plenary speech). In: The 3rd Doctoral KCL-HKU Summer School in Sociolinguistics. 2018, London.
    • Chan, JYH. Bridging the gap between L2 learners’ use of communicative strategies and ELF: a pedagogical framework. In: The 11th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca. 2018, London.
    • Chan, JYH. Bridging the gap between ELF and L2 student pragmatics: Rethinking assessment practices in teaching English as a global language (Invited Seminar). In: Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics (HAAL) Seminar. 2018, Hong Kong.
    • Chan, WS, Chan, JYH. A corpus-based study of discourse markers in secondary student talk. In: The 2018 International Conference on English Teaching and Learning. 2018, Taiwan.
    • Chan, JYH. Native-speaker ideology in English and Chinese language learning: What do L2 learners say about their ultimate pronunciation goal? (Featured Speech). In: The 26th Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA) International Conference. 2017, Malaysia.
    • Chan, JYH, Chan, WS. Exploring L2 learners’ use of communicative strategies: An English as a lingua franca (ELF) perspective. In: . Presentation at theThe 1st International Conference on Corpus Analysis in Academic Discourse. 2017, Spain.
    • Chan, JYH. A native-speaker or localised English pronunciation goal? Different views, experiences and concerns by students, teachers and professionals in Hong Kong. In: The 2017 IAWE Conference. 2017, The United States.
    • Chan, JYH. Perceptions and experiences of ELF among students, teachers and professionals in Hong Kong: Implications for English language teaching. In: The Ninth International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca. 2016, Spain.
    • Chan, JYH. Contextualising a pedagogical model in English-language education: The case of Hong Kong (Invited Seminar). In: Faculty Research Seminar, Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong. 2015, Hong Kong.
    • Chan, JYH. (2Sounding like a native speaker of English in international communication – does it matter? The implications of accent variation for careers. (Invited public lecture). In: Public Lecture, The University of Science and Technology. 2015, Hong Kong.
    • Chan, JYH. How is authenticity constructed in localised secondary ELT textbooks?. In: The Fourth PolySystemic Language & Educational Symposium. 2013, Hong Kong.
    • Chan, JYH. Henry Widdowson’s Doctoral Workshop (Invited conference paper). In: The Sixth International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca. 2013, Italy.
    • Chan, JYH. Contextual variation and Hong Kong English (Invited Seminar). In: The Hong Kong Association of Applied Linguistics (HAAL) Awardees’ Night, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 2013, Hong Kong.
    • Chan, JYH. An evaluation of the globalised ELT curriculum and materials in Hong Kong. In: The 19th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE). 2013, The United States.
    • Chan, JYH. Accent acceptability in Hong Kong: Implications for designing ELF language awareness activities. In: The Sixth International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca. 2013, Italy.
    • Chan, JYH. Which pronunciation model in the local secondary classroom? An ethnographic case study of the fine-tuning MOI policy in Hong Kong. In: The 18th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE). 2012, Hong Kong & Guangzhou, China.
    • Wong, C, Chan, JYH. How ‘fine’ is fine-tuning of Medium of Instruction (MOI) policy in local schools? (Invited conference paper). In: Paper at the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong - Annual Research Forum (LSHK-ARF). 2012, Hong Kong.

  • Report

    • Chan, JYH, Lo, MM. An intelligibility-oriented approach to pronunciation teaching: Guidelines for teaching English as an international language. Hong Kong, 2020.