Faculty Profiles - WU Kam Yin | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Kam Yin WU
胡錦賢

PhD in English Language Education
The University of Hong Kong, 2007

Lecturer I
Center for Language Education

(852) 2358 7890
lckywu@ust.hk
Room 3358
Personal Web

ORCID

0000-0003-2419-2759

Research Interest Publications Teaching Assignment Space used

Research Interest

English for academic and specific purposes
Corpus-based methods
English language materials writing
Genre analysis

Publications

All Years 13 2024 0 2023 1 2022 3 2021 3 2020 0 2019 1 2018 5

2023 1

Cross-faculty cooperation in an ESP course: issues arising in the COVID pandemic

Scholarship of Teaching in Language Education (STiLE), v. 1, (1), June 2023, article number 12
Carmichael, Sarah; Wu, Kam Yin; Au, Chui Han Anita
Article

2022 3

Syntactic complexity and writing quality in students' technical writing

ThaiTESOL Journal, v. 35, (2), October 2022, p. 22-35
Lee, Yuen Yee; Wu, Kam Yin; Lee, Ping Chung Eric
Article

Grammar: A Linguist’s Guide for Language Teachers [Book Review]

JALT Journal, v. 44, (1), May 2022, p. 198-201
Wu, Kam Yin
Book review

Syntactic complexity and writing quality in students’ technical writing

Lee, Joyce Yuen Yee; Wu, Kam Yin
Conference paper

2021 3

Exploring the effect of task-based language teaching on students’ analytical writing

International Journal of English for Specific Purposes, v. 1, (1), November 2021, p. 93-110
Wu, Kam Yin
Article

Developing materials for learning STEM vocabulary

Wu, Kam Yin
Conference paper

Remote teaching during the pandemic: The case of an ESP course for engineering students

Au, Anita C.H.; Wu, Kam Yin; Carmichael, Sarah
Conference paper

2019 1

Developing Digital Resources to Support the Learning and Use of Technical Vocabulary

Wu, Kam Yin; Ng, Irene Wai Yee
Conference paper

2018 1

Impacts of Discipline-specific Language Instruction on the Academic Writing of Civil Engineering Students

Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics, v. 5, (1), 2018, p. 19-35
Wu, Kam Yin; Carmichael, Sarah
Article

2017 1

Teaching Analytical Writing: A Scaffolded Approach

International House Journal, v. 43, November 2017, p. 28-30
Wu, Kam Yin
Article

2015 1

Language curriculum design for engineering students: How specific can it be?

Carmichael, Sarah; Wu, Kam Yin; Lee, Yuen Yee
Conference paper

2013 2

Designing and Evaluating a Genre-based Technical Communication Course Incorporating a Task-based Model of Instruction

Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, v. 14, (2), March 2013, p. 20-44
Carmichael, Sarah; Wu, Kam Yin; Lee, Yuen Yee Joyce
Article

hJam: Attachment Transmission in WLANs

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, v. 12, (12), 2013, article number 6302135, p. 2334-2345
Wu, Kaishun; Li, Haochao; Wang, Lu; Yi, Youwen; Liu, Yunhuai; Chen, Dihu; Luo, Xiaonan; Zhang, Qian; Ni, Lionel Ming-Shuan
Article

Article 1

Cross-faculty cooperation in an ESP course: issues arising in the COVID pandemic

Scholarship of Teaching in Language Education (STiLE), v. 1, (1), June 2023, article number 12
Carmichael, Sarah; Wu, Kam Yin; Au, Chui Han Anita

Article 1

Syntactic complexity and writing quality in students' technical writing

ThaiTESOL Journal, v. 35, (2), October 2022, p. 22-35
Lee, Yuen Yee; Wu, Kam Yin; Lee, Ping Chung Eric

Book review 1

Grammar: A Linguist’s Guide for Language Teachers [Book Review]

JALT Journal, v. 44, (1), May 2022, p. 198-201
Wu, Kam Yin

Conference paper 1

Syntactic complexity and writing quality in students’ technical writing

Lee, Joyce Yuen Yee; Wu, Kam Yin

Article 1

Exploring the effect of task-based language teaching on students’ analytical writing

International Journal of English for Specific Purposes, v. 1, (1), November 2021, p. 93-110
Wu, Kam Yin

Conference paper 2

Developing materials for learning STEM vocabulary

Wu, Kam Yin

Remote teaching during the pandemic: The case of an ESP course for engineering students

Au, Anita C.H.; Wu, Kam Yin; Carmichael, Sarah

Conference paper 1

Developing Digital Resources to Support the Learning and Use of Technical Vocabulary

Wu, Kam Yin; Ng, Irene Wai Yee

Article 1

Impacts of Discipline-specific Language Instruction on the Academic Writing of Civil Engineering Students

Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics, v. 5, (1), 2018, p. 19-35
Wu, Kam Yin; Carmichael, Sarah

Article 1

Teaching Analytical Writing: A Scaffolded Approach

International House Journal, v. 43, November 2017, p. 28-30
Wu, Kam Yin

Conference paper 1

Language curriculum design for engineering students: How specific can it be?

Carmichael, Sarah; Wu, Kam Yin; Lee, Yuen Yee

Article 2

Designing and Evaluating a Genre-based Technical Communication Course Incorporating a Task-based Model of Instruction

Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, v. 14, (2), March 2013, p. 20-44
Carmichael, Sarah; Wu, Kam Yin; Lee, Yuen Yee Joyce

hJam: Attachment Transmission in WLANs

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, v. 12, (12), 2013, article number 6302135, p. 2334-2345
Wu, Kaishun; Li, Haochao; Wang, Lu; Yi, Youwen; Liu, Yunhuai; Chen, Dihu; Luo, Xiaonan; Zhang, Qian; Ni, Lionel Ming-Shuan

2018 1

Impacts of Discipline-specific Language Instruction on the Academic Writing of Civil Engineering Students

Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics, v. 5, (1), 2018, p. 19-35
Wu, Kam Yin; Carmichael, Sarah
Article

2017 1

Teaching Analytical Writing: A Scaffolded Approach

International House Journal, v. 43, November 2017, p. 28-30
Wu, Kam Yin
Article

2015 1

Language curriculum design for engineering students: How specific can it be?

Carmichael, Sarah; Wu, Kam Yin; Lee, Yuen Yee
Conference paper

2013 2

Designing and Evaluating a Genre-based Technical Communication Course Incorporating a Task-based Model of Instruction

Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, v. 14, (2), March 2013, p. 20-44
Carmichael, Sarah; Wu, Kam Yin; Lee, Yuen Yee Joyce
Article

hJam: Attachment Transmission in WLANs

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, v. 12, (12), 2013, article number 6302135, p. 2334-2345
Wu, Kaishun; Li, Haochao; Wang, Lu; Yi, Youwen; Liu, Yunhuai; Chen, Dihu; Luo, Xiaonan; Zhang, Qian; Ni, Lionel Ming-Shuan
Article

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Teaching Assignment

2024-25 Fall 2 2023-24 Summer 0 2023-24 Spring 1 2023-24 Winter 0 2023-24 Fall 2 2022-23 Summer 0

LANG4033	Technical Communication II for Civil and Environmental Engineering
LANG5005E	Communicating Research in English

LANG5005E

Communicating Research in English

LANG2030	Technical Communication I
LANG5005E	Communicating Research in English

No Teaching Assignments

Research Interest

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2022 3

2021 3

2019 1

2018 1

2017 1

2015 1

2013 2

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Book review 1

Conference paper 1

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Article 1

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2018 1

2017 1

2015 1

2013 2

Teaching Assignment

Projects

From January 2022 to December 2024

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