Michelle Zeping HUANG 黃澤萍 Lecturer and Programme Director of GE Public Speaking course
Mphil. Ph.D, CUHK
(852) 3411-6552
huangzeping@hkbu.edu.hk
CVA Room 928

Dr. Huang read English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and obtained a PhD degree in Applied English Linguistics from CUHK before she joined HKBU in 2013.? She is currently teaching The Art of Persuasion,?Writing for Professional Communication, and Strategic Communication Practicum. She was the former advisor of The Young Agency (TYA), a student agency for Public Relations, Advertising and Branding majors.
Research InterestsCorpus linguistics approach to communication studies
Critical Discourse Analysis
Intercultural communication
Speech analysis
English for specific purposes
PublicationsRefereed Journal Articles
Song, Y., Huang, Z., Schuldt, J. P., & Yuan, Y. C. (2021). National prisms of a global phenomenon: A comparative study of press coverage of climate change in the US, UK and China.?Journalism, Doi 1464884921989124.
Huang, Z & Bui, G. (2019).?Lexical bundles in conversation across Englishes: What can core and peripheral bundles reveal? English World-Wide, 40 (3), 301-326. [SSCI]
Song, Y., Lee, CC., Huang, Z. (2019). The news prism of nationalism versus globalism: How does the US, UK and Chinese elite press cover 'China's rise'?. Journalism,?1-20. First published online on May 8, 2019.?https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884919847143 [SSCI]
Bui, G. & Huang, Z. (2018). L2 fluency as influenced by content familiarity and planning: Performance, measurement, and pedagogy. Language Teaching Research,?22 (1), 94–114. DOI: 10.1177/1362168816656650. First published online 2016. [SSCI]
Song, Y., Lee, C., Huang, Z. (2016). “Political and media systems matter: U.S., Chinese and British press coverage of China's rise, 2008-2014”. Full paper published in The 66^th ICA Conference Proceedings (Theme: Communicating with Power), 9-13 June 2016 in Fukuoka, Japan.
Huang, Z. (2014). The effects of paper-based DDL on the acquisition of lexico-grammatical patterns in L2 writing. ReCall, 26 (2), 163-183.?https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020 [SSCI]
Huang, Z. (2012). The effects of lexical input in second language writing: A corpus-informed approach. TESL Reporter, 45 (1), 1-16. [SSCI]
Huang, Z. (2010). Revisiting the effects of concordancing on lexico-grammatical patterns of signaling nouns in EFL writing. Journal of Applied English, 3, 81-92.
Books
Braine, G., Wang, J. & Huang, Z. (2017). Introduction to academic writing: A guide for Chinese students. Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press上海外語教育出版社（外教社）, Shanghai, China. [Core textbook for English majors]
Booklets
From 2017 to 2019, I led a Professional Communication Writing project collaborating with the Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong. This project provides our students with hand-on practice of writing feature articles in a real-life context.
During this 3-year period, our communication students have written about 30 feature stories for the three booklets on the Knowledge Exchange (KE) Award of HKU Faculty of Dentistry.
HKBU-HKU KE Award Booklet 2019?https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1vDFmCi9bLXhpgINuHNKwofl6vzBy0Cbl
HKBU-HKU KE Award Booklet 2018?https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1IE40_V6yilMrHIoCJZ7BWl8l2TrI1TYF
HKBU-HKU KE Award Booklet 2017?https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/14zPgTg-4WvmEH6Hf7ALxs-9u4EOGjQYI
Awards/Grants/HonorsGrants
Principal investigator:
Project "Yellow or Blue? News coverage on Extradition Protest between China and Hong Kong: A computer-assisted corpus linguistic approach" funded by Communication-Media-Culture Studies (CMC), School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. Period: 01/01/2021-30/06/2022. Grant received: HK$72,000
Principal investigator:
Teaching Development Grants (TDG) project "Mastering the Art of Persuasion: Students-as-Partner (SAP) in the Digital Age" funded by the Center for Holistic Teaching and Learning (CHTL), Hong Kong Baptist University. Period: 01/06/2020 - 01/11/2012. Grant received: HK$291,880
Co-investigator: A Teaching Development Grants (TDG) project titled "A collaborative instructional approach to English across curriculum" funded by the Center for Holistic Teaching and Learning (CHTL), Hong Kong Baptist University. Period: 01/06/2019 - 30/10/2020. Grant received: HK$248,665
Service-Learning project for the PRAD3015 Strategic Communication Practicum funded by the Service-Learning Mini-Grants from the Centre for innovative Service-Learning, Hong Kong Baptist University. Period: Semester 1, 2019-2020. Grant received: HK$30,000.
Honors
Honorary Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong