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Project Topics of BA Students
Topics of BA final year project

1. (2007-2009)

2. (2009-2014)

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Topics of MA dissertation
(From University of Arizona)

Department research areas
(Department of English, PolyU)

2009-2010
  • Presupposition and the Chinese adverb
  • Glocalization and hybridized appeals in advertisements
  • Translation of "Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, The Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power." by Alexander Robbins
  • Awareness of social enterprises among Hong Kong public in relation to corporate advertising strategies adopted by HK social enterprises
  • Investigating the relationship between PolyU BALSP final year students' English writing proficiency and their overall English proficiency
  • An investigation into the relationship between gender, language learning strategies and second language proficiency
  • Translation of "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
  • An investigation of the relationship between university culture and language:  a corpus-driven study of the adjectives used in the websites of tertiary educational institutions in Hong Kong
  • A contrastive genre analysis: Press releases of Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines
2010-2011
  • A case study on Hong Kong Anti-drug posters professional institutes
  • Similarities and differences in English writing by boys and girls in Hong Kong secondary education
  • Second language vocabulary teaching: The effects of task-based instruction in Hong Kong secondary classrooms
  • "I don't know wor.": A study on the use of Cantonese sentence-final particle wor in Hongkongers' personal blogs
2011-2012
  • Language choice and attitudes towards English among local and Mainland Students in Hong Kong
  • Post-secondary school students' attitudes towards Hong Kong English
  • The use of Intra-sentential Connectives in English writing by Junior and senior secondary learners in Hong Kong: a comparison study
2012-2013
  • Corpus-driven language study exploring the extended meanings of lexical items in the National Education Corpus
  • A comparative corpus analysis of Hong Kong and British primary education - key ideas and their extended units of meanings in two curriculum corpora
  • Study of Common Mistakes Made by Hong Kong ESL secondary school students
  • Language Realization of "Money Shot" in Reality TV with Special Consideration of Generic Structure and Appraisal Analysis
  • An appraisal analysis of the specialized "Chinese Tweets Corpus"
2013-2014
  • Gricean pragmatics in children's understanding of conversational implicatures and the Flouting of Maxims: a study Based on an American TV Talk Show
  • Detachment in women's intimacy: a comparative study of Jianing Zhou's Illusion and Claire Keegan's Antarctica
  • The effects of suffixation on English word stress patterns of Cantonese-speaking ESL Learners
  • A functional-semantic analysis of Obama and Romney's third presidential debute