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Wilkinson Daniel Wong GONZALES
Assistant Professor
B.S.Ed. (De La Salle University), M.A. (NUS, UMich), Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Administrative Post
Undergraduate Coordinator (Applied English Linguistics)
Digital Technology Coordinator
Digital Technology Coordinator
Office
Fung King Hey 321
Tel
3943 7109
Website
https://www.wdwgonzales.com/
Link
Research Interests
Sociolinguistics, language variation and change, multilingualism and language contact, world Englishes, corpus linguistics, language documentation, quantitative approaches, analysis of Computer-mediated Communication (CMC) and social media, experimental and computational approaches
Books / Monographs Authored
| 2025 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Our People’s Language: Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs. Contact Language Library, John Benjamins Publishing Company, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1075/coll.62 |
Edited Volumes
| 2021 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Hybridization. In Ariane Macalinga Borlongan (Ed.) Hybridization. In Ariane Macalinga Borlongan (Ed.) Philippine English: Development, Structure, and Sociology of English in the Philippines. London: Routledge.London: Routledge. |
| 2021 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. . Interactions of Sinitic languages in the Philippines: Sinicization, Filipinization, and Sino-Philippine language creation. In Zhengdao Ye (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies. London: Palgrave-MacMillan. |
| 2021 | Hiramoto, Mie, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Jakob Leimgruber, Jessica Choo, Junjie Lim. From Malay to Colloquial Singapore English: A case study of sentence-final particle sia. In A. Ngefac, H. Wolf & T. Hoffmann (eds.) World Englishes and creole languages today: Existing paradigms and current trends in action,117-130. Lincom. |
| 2016 | Dita, Shirley & Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography Manila: C&E Publishing. |
Chapters in Books
| 2024 | Bancu, Ariana, Joy P. G. Peltier, Felicia Bisnath, Danielle Burgess, Sophia Eakins, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Moira Saltzman, Yourdanis Sedarous, Alicia Stevers, and Marlyse Baptista. Revitalizing Attitudes towards Languages. In Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz’s (eds.) Decolonizing Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197755259.003.0015 |
| 2022 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Hybridization. In Ariane Macalinga Borlongan (Ed.) Philippine English: Development, Structure, and Sociology of English in the Philippines. London: Routledge. [link] |
| 2022 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Interactions of Sinitic languages in the Philippines: Sinicization, Filipinization, and Sino-Philippine language creation. In Zhengdao Ye (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies. London: Palgrave-MacMillan. |
| 2022 | Hiramoto, Mie, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Jakob Leimgruber, Jessica Choo, Junjie Lim. From Malay to Colloquial Singapore English: A case study of sentence-final particle sia. In A. Ngefac, H. Wolf & T. Hoffmann (eds.) World Englishes and creole languages today: Existing paradigms and current trends in action,117-130. Lincom. |
Articles in Journals
| 2025 (online) | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Predicting language choice in a digital medium: A computational approach to analyzing WhatsApp code-switching in Hong Kong. International Journal of Bilingualism. Sage. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13670069251325036 |
| 2025 (online) | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong and Yue Zhang. Reshaping language learners’ languaging habitus: A world-Englishes-informed critical pedagogy. RELC Journal. Sage. https://doi.org/10.1177/00336882251313702 |
| 2024 (online) | Liu, Guangxiang, Ka Hin Starsky Ng, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales. Unpacking informal digital learning of English in Hong Kong: An L2 motivational self system perspective. Digital Applied Linguistics. Castledown. https://doi.org/10.29140/dal.v1.2229 |
| 2024 (online) | Zhang, Yue and Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales. World Englishes pedagogy: Investing in learner identity. ELT Journal. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccae053 |
| 2024 (online) | Lim, Jun Jie, Mie Hiramoto, Jakob Leimgruber, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales. Clause-Final Adverbs in Colloquial Singapore English Revisited, Journal of English Linguistics. SAGE. https://doi.org/10.1177/00754242241278838 |
| 2024 | Lim, Junjie, Mohammed Hafiz, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Jakob Leimgruber, Mie Hiramoto. Adverbial confirm in Colloquial Singapore English: Insights from a text message corpus. Asian Englishes, Routledge. 26(3): 648-665. https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2024.2398853 |
| 2024 (online) | Cheng, Andrew, Lauretta Cheng, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, & Pocholo Umbal. Variation in Asian and Pacific Islander North American English: What the patterns of scholarship demonstrate about race in Sociolinguistics. Asia-Pacific Language Variation. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.23009.che |
| 2024 (online) | Hafiz, Mohammed, Mie Hiramoto, Jakob Leimgruber, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Jun Jie Lim. Sociolinguistic variation in Colloquial Singapore English sia. World Englishes, Wiley. http://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12700 |
| 2024 | Burgess, Danielle, Joy Peltier, Sophia Eakins, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Alicia Stevers, Ariana Bancu, Felicia Bisnath, Moira Saltzman, Marlyse Baptista. The MULTI Project: Resources for enhancing multifaceted creole language expertise in the linguistics classroom. American Speech, Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-11255059 |
| 2024 (online) | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Philippine Englishes in the Sino-Philippine Lannang context: Towards a concentric-pluricentric interactional-interplanar model of English, World Englishes, Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12666 |
| 2024 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. The Holistic Advantage: Unified quantitative modeling for less-biased, in-depth insights into (socio)linguistic variation. Languages. Invited paper. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9050182 |
| 2024 (online) | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. When to (not) split the infinitive: Factors governing patterns of syntactic variation in Twitter-style Philippine English. English Language & Linguistics, Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674323000631 |
| 2024 (online) | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Sociolinguistic analysis with missing metadata? Leveraging linguistic and semiotic resources through Deep Learning to investigate English variation and change on Twitter. Applied Linguistics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amad086 |
| 2024 (online) | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Mixed language in flux? The various impacts of multilingual contact on Lánnang-uè’s wh-question system. International Journal of Bilingualism. SAGE. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069231201865 |
| 2023 (online) | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. From tweets to trends: Analyzing sociolinguistic variation and change using the Twitter Corpus of English in Hong Kong (TCOEHK). Asian Englishes. Routledge, Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2023.2251771 |
| 2023 (online) | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Advancing Sino-Philippine linguistics and sociolinguistics using the Lannang Corpus (LanCorp) – a multilingual, POS-tagged, and audio-textual databank. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.22096.gon |
| 2023 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Variability in clusters and continuums: The sociolinguistic situation of the Manila Lannangs in the 2010s. Asia-Pacific Language Variation 9(1): 83–124. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.22009.gon |
| 2023 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong & Tsang, Yuen Man. The Sociolinguistics of Code-switching in Hong Kong’s Digital Landscape: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Cantonese-English Alternation Patterns on WhatsApp. Journal of English and Applied Linguistics 2(1): 1-21, https://doi.org/10.59588/2961-3094.1041 [invited paper] |
| 2023 (online) | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Broadening horizons in the diachronic and sociolinguistic study of Philippine English with the Twitter Corpus of Philippine Englishes (TCOPE) English World-Wide. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.22047.gon |
| 2023 (online) | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Spread, stability, and sociolinguistic variation in multilingual practices: The case of Lánnang-uè and its derivational morphology. International Journal of Multilingualism. Routledge. http://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2023.2199998 |
| 2022 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Hybridization. In Ariane Macalinga Borlongan (Ed.) Philippine English: Development, Structure, and Sociology of English in the Philippines. London: Routledge. |
| 2022 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong, Mie Hiramoto, Jakob Leimgruber, Jun Jie Lim. Is it in Colloquial Singapore English: What variation can tell us about its conventions and development. English Today, Cambridge University Press. |
| 2022 | Hiramoto, Mie, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Jakob Leimgruber, Jessica Choo, Junjie Lim. From Malay to Colloquial Singapore English: A case study of sentence-final particle sia. In A. Ngefac, H. Wolf & T. Hoffmann (eds.) World Englishes and creole languages today: Existing paradigms and current trends in action, 117-130. Lincom. |
| 2022 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. The Lannang Corpus (LanCorp): A POS-tagged, sociolinguistic corpus containing recordings and transcriptions of Lannang speech collected from the metropolitan Manila Lannangs between 2016 and 2020. Deep Blue Repository, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |
| 2021 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong, Mie Hiramoto, Jakob Leimgruber, Jun Jie Lim.The Corpus of Singapore English Messages (CoSEM). World Englishes, Wiley. |
| 2021 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Filipino, Chinese, neither, or both? The Lannang identity and its relationship with language. Language & Communication 77: 5-16. Elsevier. |
| 2020 | Leimgruber, Jakob, Jun Jie Lim, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Mie Hiramoto. Ethnic and gender variation in the use of Colloquial Singapore English discourse particles English Language and Linguistics Cambridge University Press. |
| 2020 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong & Rebecca Lurie Starr.Vowel system or vowel systems? Variation in the monophthongs of Philippine Hybrid Hokkien in Manila. Journal of Pidgin and Creole LanguagesCambridge University Press. |
| 2020 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong & Mie Hiramoto. Two Englishes diverged in the Philippines? A substratist account of Manila Chinese English. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 35(1): 125–159. John Benjamins. |
| 2018 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong & Shirley Dita. Split infinitives across world Englishes: A corpus-based investigation. Asian Englishes 20(3): 242–267. Routledge. |
| 2017 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. . Language contact in the Philippines: The history and ecology from a Chinese Filipino perspective. Language Ecology 1(2): 185–212. John Benjamins. |
| 2017 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Chinese Filipinos tag their questions, kiam si? Some notes on tag questions in Philippine Hybrid Hokkien. Philippine ESL Journal 19: 84–99. ELE Publishing. |
| 2017 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Philippine Englishes. Asian Englishes 19(2): 79–95. Routledge. |
| 2017 | Borlongan, Ariane Macalinga & Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales. Openings of telephone conversations in Philippine English. Asian Journal of English Language Studies 5: 1–14. |
| 2016 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. Trilingual code-switching using quantitative lenses: An exploratory study on Hokaglish. Philippine Journal of Linguistics 47: 106–128. |
| 2016 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong & Flores, Eden. Filipino ESL learners’ attitudes toward cooperative learning and their relationship to reading comprehension. TESOL International Journal 11(2): 70-90. |
| 2015 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong & Torres, Patrisha Lliane. Looking at CIRC through quantitative lenses: Can it Improve the reading comprehension of Filipino ESL learners? Philippine ESL Journal 15: 67-98. |
| 2014 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. The teaching of Afro-Asian literature: A comparison between the unconventional learner-centered and the conventional teacher-centered approaches. TESOL International Journal 9(2): 63-77. |
Others
| Book Reviews | |
| 2018 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. [Book note] Yakpo, Kofi & Pieter C. Muysken eds. (2017) Boundaries and bridges: Language contact in multilingual ecologies. Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter Inc., 2017. Pp. 443. Hb. £90.99. Language in Society 47(3). Cambridge University Press. |
| 2016 | Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong. [Book review] Languages in contact, by Lisa Lim & Umberto Ansaldo. Asian Englishes 18: 173–175. Routledge. |
| Media Engagement | |
| 2023 | Article mention. Applied Linguistics at La Salle. The Manila Times. 14 October 2023. |
| 2022 | Quoted paper. History Tidbit series. Bahay Tsinoy, Museum of Chinese in Philippine Life. 11 June 2023. |
| 2021 | Featured paper. Who owns English? The Irish are calling their mammies "mom" AAVE gets the credit it deserves Blog: English In Progress. June 3, 2023. |
| 2023 | Interviewee. Documenting a Mixed Language: Interview with Dr. Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales. International Love Data Week 2023. University of Michigan Library, University of Michigan Publishing. Feb 13, 2023. |
| 2022 | Guest speaker. Cultural practices of the Lannangs. Tuko Chronicles, the official podcast of the Folklore Studies Program of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman. January 15, 2022. |
| 2021 | Guest Speaker, Zininaga (Heritage/Inheritance) Radio, Cagayan Museum and Historical Research Center. |
| 2020 | Speaker, Lannang 101: History, identity, and basics of Lánnang-uè. AsianFest Series. The Lannang Archives, Chinoy Learning, Lucky Chinatown Mall, ChinoyTV. 21 August 2020. |
| Invited Talks, Colloquia, Workshops and Conference Papers | |
| 2024 (upcoming) | Invited Speaker. Leveraging technology to understand language variation and impact society. Day of Digital Humanities. Research Institute for the Humanities (RIH) and CUHK Library. 20 May 2024. |
| 2024 (upcoming) | Invited Speaker. Negotiating 'Lannang' and 'Chinese' identities in the Philippines: Linguistic and social dimensions. ASIAN 100 Gateway to Asia (Instructor: Prof. Miki Chase) Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Wisconsin-Madison. April 8, 2024. |
| 2024 (upcoming) | Invited Speaker. Applied English Linguistics Topics: Language, society, variation, and English in Hong Kong. Confucian Tai Shing Ho Kwok Pui Chun College, Hong Kong SAR. March 15, 2024. |
| 2023 | Invited Speaker. Language and society through the lenses of variation. Faculty of Arts Information Day, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. October 21, 2023. |
| 2023 | Invited Speaker. Social media sociolinguistics: Analyzing variation and change in Twitter-style Philippine English. Staff seminar in the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies. National University of Singapore. October 18, 2023. |
| 2023 | Invited Speaker. Vowel system or vowel systems? Sociophonetic variation in the monophthongs of Manila Lánnang-uè. Phonetics Brown Bag session. Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures. National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Taiwan. October 6, 2023. |
| 2023 | Invited Speaker. Leveraging social media for analyzing variation and change in English in the Philippine Twitterscape. 15th Philippine Linguistics Congress (15PLC), University of the Philippines Diliman, 23-25 August 2023. |
| 2023 | Invited Research Colloquium Speaker. Lexical variation in the trilingual mixed language Lánnang-uè: A sociolinguistic, corpus-based, computational approach. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Regensburg, Germany. May 31, 2023. |
| 2023 | Invited Research Colloquium Speaker. Leveraging Twitter to Investigate Variation and Change in Philippine English. University of Regensburg, Department of English and American Studies. University of Regensburg, Germany. June 15, 2023. |
| 2023 | Invited Workshop Facilitator. Contemporary ways of analyzing data in (socio)linguistics, the social sciences, and beyond with a quantitative focus. The 5th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines, Linguistic Society of the Philippines and MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology. Iligan City, Philippines. April 27-29, 2023. |
| 2023 | Invited Plenary Speaker. Social media in sociolinguistic analysis: Investigating variation and change in Philippine Englishes using Twitter. South East Asian Multidisciplinary Research Expo and Extension Conference. Sorsogon State University, Sorsogon City, Philippines. March 1, 2023. |
| 2023 | Invited Speaker. Quantitative approaches to data analysis in sociolinguistics: Summary, statistics, and strategies. Department of English, Sorsogon State University, Sorsogon City, Philippines. March 3, 2023. |
| 2022 | Invited Guest Speaker. Field methods for investigating a Sino-Philippine language: Quantitative and computational perspectives. Field Methods (Instructor: Kristina Gallego), Department of Linguistics, University of the Philippines, Diliman. December 10, 2022. |
| 2022 | Invited Guest Speaker. Introduction to quantitative analysis using R. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. (Instructor: Prem Phyak), Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong. November 17, 2022. |
| 2022 | Invited Lecture Speaker, Harnessing the power of social media in linguistic analysis: A diachronic and sociolinguistic study of Philippine English(es) using the Twitter Corpus of Philippine Englishes. The 36th Annual Meeting of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 36) De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines; National University, Manila, Philippines, and the Lasallian Institute for Development and Educational Research (LIDER).. October 20-22, 2022. |
| 2022 | Colloquium Speaker. Sociolinguistic variation in a mixed language? A corpus-based analysis of Lánnang-uè conjunctions and prepositions. Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. USA. April 15, 2022. |
| 2022 | Speaker. Variation in Lánnang-uè conjunctions and prepositions: A sociolinguistic, computational, corpus-based investigation. Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong, SAR. January 20, 2022. |
| 2022 | Speaker. Quantitative research methods in sociolinguistics 101. Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong, SAR. January 27, 2022. |
| 2022 | Speaker. TEDxUofM 2022. Power Center for the Performing Arts, Ann Arbor, February 18, 2021. (Declined) |
| 2021 | Guest speaker, Special Lecture, Philippine English(es): Perspectives, approaches, analytical tools. LIN 692 (Instructor: Dr. Leah Gustilo), De La Salle University. July 24, 2021. |
| 2021 | Guest speaker, Special Lecture, Beyond the Philippine English monolith: Approaches to investigating hybridity, variation, and change. Linguistic Society of the Philippines and De La Salle University - Department of English and Applied Linguistics. July 12, 2021. |
| 2021 | Guest Speaker, The Lannangs: History, identity, culture, and language. University of Hawaii at Hilo. |
| 2019 | Speaker, Wh-fronting in Philippine Hybrid Hokkien questions: A contact-induced innovative feature? Department of Linguistics, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, the Philippines, 19 July 2019. |
| 2019 | Panel presenter, At the Chinese and Philippine peripheries: Chinese Filipino identity creation and linguistic practices. Views from the Margins: Language Politics in the Sinophone. Chair: Mie Hiramoto and Andrew Wong. International Pragmatics Association Conference. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR. June 9-14, 2019. |
| 2018 | Speaker, Is Philippine Hybrid Hokkien a language? Evidence from nominal affixation mixing. Department of Linguistics, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, the Philippines, 17 July 2018 (postponed) |
| 2018 | Speaker, Guest Lecture, Language contact EL1101 The Nature of Language; Module chair: Dr. Leslie Lee, National University of Singapore, April 2018. |
| 2017 | Speaker, Special Lecture. Contemporary views in analyzing language: Englishes and corpora. Department of English and Applied Linguistics, National University, Sampaloc, Manila, the Philippines. July 5, 2017. |
| 2017 | Workshop Facilitator, Corpora in language research: Using AntConc as a tool for linguistic analysis. Module Chair: A/P Shirley Dita. Module: Structure of English. De La Salle University, Manila, the Philippines. July 5, 2017. |
| 2017 | Speaker, Hokaglish: The new language of the Filipino-Chinese, Department of Linguistics, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, the Philippines, June 19, 2017. |
| 2017 | Speaker, Hokaglish: The new language of the Filipino-Chinese, Department of Linguistics, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, the Philippines, June 19, 2017.Speaker, Hokaglish: The new language of the Filipino-Chinese, Department of Linguistics, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, the Philippines, June 19, 2017. |
| 2017 | Discussant, Panel, Disjuncts in World Englishes, 2017 Linguistic Society of the Philippines National Conference and General Meeting, Far Eastern University, Manila, the Philippines, April 6-8, 2017. (with Shirley Dita) |
| 2017 | Speaker, Special Lecture, Hokaglish: An emerging language. EL3211 Languages in contact. Module chair: A/P Mie Hiramoto. National University of Singapore, March 23, 2017. |
| 2017 | Speaker, Guest Lecture, Hokaglish: An emerging language. HG4042 How and Why Languages Differ Module chair: Professor Randy LaPolla Nanyang Technological University, March 6, 2017. |
| 2016 | Discussant, Panel, Using corpora in language research. 2016 Linguistic Society of the Philippines National Conference and General Meeting, Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, the Philippines, April 7-9, 2016. (with Shirley Dita) |
| 2015 | Workshop Facilitator, Corpus Linguistics: What, When, How. Module Chair: Dr. Andrew Bernardo, UST Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, the Philippines, November 2015. |
| Programs & Tools | |
| 2022 | Twitter Corpus of Englishes in Hong Kong TCOEHK Corpus Suite (Python). Hong Kong English counterpart of the TCOPE Corpus Suite. |
| 2021 | Twitter Corpus of Philippine Englishes TCOPE Corpus Suite (Python). An application that compiles and preprocesses COPE, allows for data querying, which is used to subset the corpus. Includes sociolinguistic demographic prediction support using Deep Learning with Wang et al’ 2019 M3 application |
| 2021 | TweetCorp (Python). A wrapper application that, from a simple query GUI interface, scrapes, preprocesses, and tokenizes Twitter tweets by sentence using a mix of rule-based and neural network splitting algorithms before compiling them into a CSV corpus file. Includes sociolinguistic demographic prediction support using Deep Learning with Wang et al’ 2019 M3 application |
| 2021 | SpeechSuite (Python). An application that uses speech detection, segmentation, LSTM-based network embedding, and spectral clustering to transcribe, diarize, and tag American English audio. Under development: Support for Philippine English and Filipino (in collaboration with Federico Ang) |
| 2021 | SubCorp (Python). A tool that creates a tagged (sociolinguistic) corpus based on SRT files from YouTube. |
| 2021 | CorpTool (Python). An application that uses machine learning models (e.g., Conditional Random Fields) to automatically tag corpora of under-documented languages for part-of-speech. |
| 2021 | CorpTool (Python). An application that uses machine learning models (e.g., Conditional Random Fields) to automatically tag corpora of under-documented languages for part-of-speech. |
| 2021 | Financial Data Extractor (Python). A tool that takes in a list of SEC-registered companies and returns a CSV with extracted financial information (e.g., revenue segmentation by region) from 10-Q/10-K filings. Developed for Digital Alpha Technologies, Inc. New York, USA. |
Teaching
| ENGE5540 | Research methods in Applied Linguistics |
| ENGE5420 | Sociolinguistics |
| ENGE5640 | Research Project in AEL |
| ENGE3690 | Gender and Language |
| ENGE2600 | World Englishes and Their Cultures |
| ENGE2630 | Sociolinguistics: Languages, Society, and Culture |
Service
| 2022-present | Principal Associate Editor, Journal of English and Applied Linguistics |
| 2018-present | Copy Editor, Philippine Journal of Linguistics. |
| August 2026 | Co-organizer (with Jette Hansen Edwards). New Ways of Analyzing Variation - Asia Pacific (NWAV-AP 9). The Chinese University of Hong Kong. August 2026. |
| July 2024 (upcoming) | Convener. Lannang Symposium 2024: Engage, Embrace, Empower: (Re-)discovering ‘Lannang’. Co-organized by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of English and the University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Linguistics. University of the Philippines, Diliman. July 12-13, 2024. |
| May 2023 | Coordinating Professor and Moderator. Hong Kong Postgraduate Roundtable in Applied Linguistics (HKPRAL 2023), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 5, 2023 |
| 2024 | Workshop organizer. Introduction to R for quantitative sociolinguistic analysis for my PhD advisees. Department of English. |
| 2024 | Research validator research inter-rater/evaluator. Linguistic Landscape in Elementary Schools: Analyses of Language Use, Multimodal Communicative Functions, and Pedagogical Benefits. Western Mindanao State University. Zamboanga City, Philippines. October 2023. (pending) |
| 2023-2024 | External Examiner for a taught postgraduate module on our Master of Arts in Global English Literary and Cultural Studies Programme: GELC6003 World Englishes and Cultures. Hang Seng University - Hong Kong. |
Grants
| Internal | |
| 2025 Mar | Direct Grant for Research (Principal Investigator), Examining the socio-indexical meaning of written language among individuals with neurodivergence 探討神經多樣性個體書面語言的社會索引意義 (Project code: 4051270). Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. March 2025- February 2026. HK$ 69,440. |
| 2024 Jan | International Conference Grant. United College. The Chinese University of Hong Kong HK$ 2,800. |
| 2023 Nov | Initial Funding in support of Development of Impact Cases. Top-up Funds (1st and 2nd installment). (Principal Investigator). Lannang Stories: Revitalizing Lánnang-uè through storytelling. Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. HK$ 100,000 (1st) + HK$ 173,000 (2nd) = HK$ 273,000. |
| 2023-2024 | Exploring Variation and Change in Chinese-related Multilingual Practices in East Asia, CUHK Direct Grant |
| External | |
| 2024 Aug | Collaborator (sub-project PI). Empowering pedagogies of English language learning in Beijing and Hong Kong universities: AI, decolonization, and international competence (PI: Prof. Zhang Yue Ellen). Beijing-Hong Kong University Alliance (BHUA Fund of the Mainland-Hong Kong University Alliances Fund 2023-24. Education Bureau (EDB) and the University Grants Committee (UGC). (1 Aug 2024 to 30 June 2025). HK$ 94,000 (HK$ 25,000 = CUHK portion). |
| 2024 Aug | Co-investigator (Principal investigator: Steven YEUNG). Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Engineering Research Writing with a Specialised Corpus and Corpus-informed Resources Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant (TDLEG) for the 2022-25 Triennium Language Enhancement Projects. UGC. Hong Kong SAR, China. HK$ 465,371 |
| 2024 Jan | Fund for Innovative Technology-in-Education (FITE). (Collaborator/Co-investigator, CUHK representative/coordinator, Budget holder). Beyond Reality: Unleashing Generative Metaverse Avatars in Education. UGC. Hong Kong SAR, China. (HK$ 148,920) January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025. |
| 2021 | The Deborah Keller-Cohen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Michigan, May 2021. [link] |
| 2018 | Graduate Students’ Teaching Award (GSTA), National University of Singapore, December 2018. http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/accolades-achievements.html |
| 2018 | The Braj B. Kachru Student Award, 23rd International Association of World Englishes (IAWE) Conference , International Association for World Englishes, June 2018. http://www.iaweworks.org/conferences.html |
| 2016 | Distinction Award (Rank 1 - English specialization, Rank 6 - overall, 53,090 exam takers), Licensure Examination for Teachers, Philippine Board Examination for Professional Teachers – Secondary Level, Professional Regulation Commission, Manila, the Philippines, Taken March 2016, Awarded June 2016. |
| 2016 | Eduardo Cojuanco, Jr. Award for Teaching Innovation, De La Salle University, Manila, the Philippines, February 2016. |
| 2016 | Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, De La Salle University, Manila, the Philippines, February 2016. |
| 2016 | Jose Rizal Award – Jose Rizal Honors Society, De La Salle University. Manila, the Philippines, February 2016. |