Mr Rickey Lu Teaching Fellow

Location AG412
Phone +852 2766 7536
mail rickey.lu@polyu.edu.hk








Education and Academic Qualifications MA in Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
BA (Cum Laude) in English Literature and Political Science, State University of New York at Binghamton




Academic and Professional Experiences Teaching Fellow, Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2021-present)
Lecturer, English Language Teaching Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2019-2021)
Assistant Lecturer, English Language Teaching Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014-2019)
Visiting Professor, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) (2013-2014)




Teaching Areas Corpus Linguistics
English for Academic/Specific Purposes
English Grammar
Morphology
Social Media
Syntax




Research Interests
Computer-mediated Communication
Discourse Analysis
Experimentation
Pragmatics



Research Output

Conference Presentations and Proceedings
Lu, R. (2019, June). Code-switching in educational contexts. 6th International Conference on Education, Social Sciences and Humanities, Istanbul, Turkey.
Yeung, P.H., Rozendaal, C.M., Lu, R. (2019, May).Adopting English Across the Curriculum (EAC) in higher Education: A case study of language interventions for engineering students in a Hong Kong university. ELTU Conference 2019, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Diaz, M., & Lu, R. (2019, May). Integration of WhatsApp for in-service EFL/ESL teacher training: Observations for the Hong Kong context. International Research Conference on Education, Language and Literatures (IRCEELT 2019), Tbilisi, Georgia.
Lu, R. (2018, May). A case study on turn-taking spoken discourse marker usage. IISES 3rd Arts & Humanities Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
Lu, R., & Xie. J. (2016, June). Teaching of discourse markers: How to return to a prior topic. The European Conference on Language Learning (ECLL2016), Brighton, United Kingdom.
Lu, R. (2016, April). The resumptive marker “so” – Instances of use and pedagogical impacts. 2016 Amsterdam International Education & Social Sciences Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.









Others



Awards and honours
Outstanding Teaching Award, Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2021)
Teaching Excellence Award, English Language Teaching Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2021)
Teaching Excellence Award, English Language Teaching Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2017)