Our Mission
The English Department maintains world-leading research and teaching in the field of English studies. We contribute to English studies from local through to international contexts. We stress choice in research and student life, and we foreground the relevance of English in everyday experience. Through the global language we foster a diverse and international outlook. The Department develops a similarly international and interdisciplinary training in both applied linguistics and literary studies.
About the Department
What do we look at when studying English? In the Department of English we study the language use of the English-speaking peoples. While the “English-speaking peoples” covers traditional native speakers, it also takes in the spread and transformation of English around the world, including in Asia and Hong Kong specifically. To study all these Englishes, we look at the whole range of language practices, from social media to creative writing, cinema to crime fiction, everyday mixing of Cantonese and English to government language policies. We strike a balance between the smallest details and the biggest arguments in English studies: from an individual poem to the diversity of global Englishes.
Facilities
Department Facilities: Eye-tracker, E-zone and Computer Lab
Eye-Tracking Lab
E-Zone
