Areas of Interest

My research mainly concerns applied linguistics, or the application of linguistic theories to everyday contexts. More specifically, I am interested in the fields of second language acquisition (SLA) and variationist sociolinguistics. Below show my current research foci as an undergraduate. 

• Technology-mediated/-enhanced language learning

• The second language acquisition of English indirect questions

• Cantonese-English code-switching in Hong Kong

Presentations

• [Accepted] Cheung, A. Y. H. The impact of ChatGPT on the acquisition of English indirect questions: A mixed-methods study. APACALL Online Symposium 2024, Asia-Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning. (25 October 2024)

• Cheung, A. Y. H. The impact of ChatGPT on the acquisition of English indirect questions: A mixed-methods study. CUHK Capstone Project Presentation Competition Grand Finals, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. (10 May 2024)

• Cheung, A. Y. H. The impact of ChatGPT on the acquisition of English indirect questions: A mixed-methods study. PolyU Undergraduate Conference on Applied Linguistics and Language Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China. (23 March 2024)

Experience

Jan-Mar 2024

Student Research Assistant, Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

I assisted a research project led by Professor Haerim Hwang entitled “Predictive processing in native and non-native language: An interdisciplinary study combining psycholinguistics and computational linguistics”. My role in the project was to communicate with participants on behalf of the research team and to conduct sentence processing experiments with the use of EyeLink 1000 Plus. 

Publications

Currently, I am working on several research projects related to applied linguistics. On the one hand, I am developing my undergraduate capstone project into a manuscript for publication with my supervisor, Professor Haerim Hwang. On the other hand, I am collaborating with Professor Wilkinson Gonzales in exploring Cantonese-English code-switching as a sociolinguistic phenomenon in Hong Kong. 

• [In preparation] Cheung, A. Y. H. & Hwang, H. The impact of ChatGPT on the acquisition of English indirect questions: A mixed-methods study. Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning. 

• [In preparation] Gonzales, W. D. W., Cheung, A. Y. H. & Chan, Y. Y. Cantonese-English code-switching in Hong Kong revisited: A sociolinguistic corpus-based and experimental investigation of narrative- and YouTube-style code-mixing. Multilingua.