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Aloha! 

Updates:
 

(24.04.2025)
I will be at SRCD (The Society for Research in Child Development) again! 

Come by for Day 1 Poster Session 5 (May 1, 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM) #136. 

Lau, Elaine. (2024). When Educators meet Linguists: Using Linguistics theoretical research to inform ECE practice and curriculum design. Poster presented at SRCD 2025 Bienniel Meeting. Minneapolis, USA. 

You can get a copy of the poster here: PDF 
 

 

and the Ad is still going on.....  !!!!!WANTED!!!!!!​

Looking for (part-time) research assistants!!! If you know of any good potentials that would be interested in working on a project in child language development in Chinese and/or non-Chinese languages in Hong Kong or literacy resources in local communities of Hong Kong, please feel free to let me know! 

- RA #1: Cantonese / monolingual syntactic development / 2 yrs / PT/FT
- RA #2: Mandarin / monolingual syntactic development / 2 yrs / PT/FT
- RA #3: English / access to local ethnic minority community and/or knowing the language would be a bonus / 18mths / PT 

present

Head, Research Office  
Assistant Professor (Linguistics) 

Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education

Adjunct Professor 
Department of Linguistics

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Honorary Assistant Professor 
Department of Linguistics

University of Hong Kong

PAST

PhD in Linguistics
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Advanced Graduate Certificate in Second Language Studies
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

 

MPhil in Linguistics
University of Hong Kong 

Bachelor of Cognitive Science
University of Hong Kong  

Research interests

Psycholinguistics

Language Acquisition (L1, L2, multilingual, heritage language) 
Language Processing (comprehension vs. production)
Syntax 
Chinese (including Cantonese, and Mandarin Chinese) 

contact

[YCCECE] elaine.lau at yccece dot edu dot hk
[CUHK]     elaine at cuhk dot edu dot hk

Academia.edu
Research Gate

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