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  • Professor CHAN Shui Duen (Ph.D., M.A.,Dip.Ed. M.Phil., B.A.)

    • Daily Used Post Title

      Associate Dean(COM), Professor and Head, CBS

    • Areas of Scholarship

      Chinese lexicology & lexicography, Chinese register study, Chinese language education

    • Education

      2000 Ph.D.(Chinese Register Study)
      The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
      1991 M.A. in Special Applications of Linguistics
      University of Birmingham, UK
      1986 Diploma in Education, School of Education
      The Chinese University of Hong Kong
      1983 M.Phil.(Chinese linguistics)
      The Chinese University of Hong Kong
      1980 B.A. (Chinese Language and Literature)
      The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Honour: 1st class)

    • Work Experience

      2005 - Date Professor, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
      2004 - Date Head, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
      1998 - 2005 Principal Lecturer & Head, Chinese Language Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
      1988 - 1998 Lecturer, then Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese & Bilingual Studies (then Department of Chinese, Translation & Interpretation), Hong Kong Polytechnic
      1982 - 1988 Graduate Mistress, then Senior Graduate Mistress, also Chairman of Chinese Panel, The Yuen Yuen Institute No.1 Secondary School
      1980 - 1982 Teaching Assistant, Department of Chinese Language & Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

    • Teaching

      • Applied Lexicology and Lexicography
      • Languages in Society
      • Applied Chinese Language Studies I
      • Chinese Language Education

    • Administrative Duties

      Mar 2006 - Date Associate Dean, Faculty of Communication
      Jul 2004 - Date Head, Department of Chinese & Bilingual Studies
      Nov 1998 - Feb 2006 Head, Chinese Language Centre
      Nov 1998 - Date Member, Senate
      Nov 1998 - Date Ex-officio Member, Faculty Board (COM)
      Sept 2006 - Date Member, Working Group on the 4-Year Undergraduate Degree Structure
      Mar 2006 - Date Chairman, Culture Promotion Committee
      Dec 2002 - Feb 2006 Deputy Chairman, Culture Promotion Committee
      Jan 2001 - Jun 2004 Appointed Member, Ethics Committee
      Jul 2002 - Date Appointed Member, Appointments Committee of Non-academic Staff (I)

    • Research Output (Selected)

      • CHAN, S.D., & Chinese Education Section of Curriculum Development Institute, Character and Word List for Hong Kong Primary Education (香港小學學習字詞表) Education Bureau, Hong Kong SAR. July 2007
      • CHAN, S.D., YUENG, C.C., Tse, M.W. et al.,
        Business Putonghua (商貿普通話) (Book 1-2）
        Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Company, 2005.
      • CHAN, S.D. & Chinese Section of Education Department, Reference Materials for Chinese Practical Writings for Primary and Secondary Schools (中小學中文實用寫作參考資料)
        Chinese Section of Education Department, HKSAR, 2001
      • CHAN, S.D., Manual on Practical Writings for Accountants (會計實務寫作手冊)
        Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Company. January 2003
      • CHAN, S.D. and TANG, Z.X., "A Quantitative Analysis of Lexical Distribution in Different Chinese Communities in the 1990’s" (九十年代漢語詞匯地域分佈的定量研究)
        Applied Linguistics, No.3 1999. pp10-18. (Awarded the 3rd prize of the First "Outstanding Articles of Young Scholars in Applied Linguistics" by the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Ministry of Education, PRC, February 2003.)
      • CHAN, S.D., "The Training and Assessment of Pragmatic Skills in Putonghua Teaching" (普通話教學中語用能力的培養和考核). In Lee, H.M.(ed.)
        Language Testing: Theory & Practice (語文測試的理論和實踐). Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 2001, pp38-49.
      • CHAN, S.D., Common Faulty Wordings of Everyday Language (生活病語). Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Company. June 2000.
      • CHAN, S.D., "Comparing the Linguistic Features of Three Written Chinese Registers" (三種書面漢語語體的語言特色比較). In T.G. Wu (Ed.) Rhetoric and Culture (修辭與文化). Wulumuqi: Xinjiang University Press, June 2000, pp147-161.
      • WANG, D.C. & CHAN, S.D., Register Study (語體學). Guangxi: GuangXi Education Press. December 2000.
      • CHAN, S.D., Common Mistakes in Writing Everyday Characters (生活錯別字), Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Company, July 1997.
      • CHAN, S.D., "A Survey of Wrongly-Written Characters Found in Compositions of Hong Kong Students" (香港學生的錯別字調查). Education Journal, Vol.24, No.2, pp.97-120.
      • CHAN, S.D., "Literacy and wrongly-written characters of Hong Kong Students" (香港學生錯別字研究與識字教學). In "Selected Papers of the Fifth International Conference on Chinese Language Teaching (第五屆國際漢語教學討論會論文選)", Beijing: Peking University Press, October 1997, pp 493-499.
      • CHAN, S.D., "Pragmatic component in the teaching of Putonghua" (普通話教學中的語用成分). In Pool the Wisdom of the Masses--Striding Forward to the Putonghua Curricula of the 21st Centry (集思廣益—邁向二十一世紀的普通話科課程), Chinese Unit, Curriculum Development Institute, Education Department, 1997, pp203-210
      • YU, C.K., LI, K.Y., ZHANG, R.Q., CHAN, S.D. et al., Modern Practical Writing. (現代應用文). Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 1996, [revised] 2006.

    • Consultancy Work

      Oct 1999 - Feb 2001 To compile a manual on effective Chinese business communication for accountants for Hong Kong Society of Accountants
      Mar 1999 - Jul 2000 To act as consultant for the compilation of a teacher’s reference on Chinese practical writings for the Curriculum Development Council of the Education Department
      Oct - Dec 2001 To act as project leader for the design and development of a web-based learning course on “Identifying and Correcting Wrongly-written Chinese Characters” ("知錯能改 - 認識錯別字" 網上課程設計及製作) for The Civil Services Training & Development Institute, HKSAR Government
      Jan - Mar 2002 To act as project leader for the design and development of a web-based learning course on "Word Usage" ("詞必達意 - 詞語運用" 網上課程設計及製作) for The Civil Services Training & Development Institute, HKSAR Government
      Mar - May 2002 To compile a Glossary for Chinese Practical Writing for the Curriculum Development Institute, Education Department, HKSAR
      May - Jul 2002 To act as project leader for the design and development of a web-based learning kit on "Refined word usage of government documents" ("公文典雅用語" 網上學習資源設計及製作) for The Civil Services Training & Development Institute, HKSAR Government
      May 2002 - Feb 2003 To act as project leader for the design and development of a web-based learning course on "Reading and writing of Chinese government documents" ("讀公文，學寫作" 網上學習資源設計及製作) for The Civil Services Training & Development Institute, HKSAR Government
      2005 - 2006 To act as project leader for the Development Project on Recommended list of Chinese lexical items for students with special educational needs for Curriculum Development Institute of Education and Manpower Bureau, HKSAR
      2005 - 2007 To act as project leader for the Development Project on Recommended list of Chinese Characters and Recommended List of Chinese Lexical Items for Students' Learning at Primary Levels, commissioned by Curriculum Development Institute of Education and Manpower Bureau, HKSAR

    • Hobbies and Interests

      Traveling, painting, music appreciation