Faculty Profiles - WHONG Melinda Karen | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2023 1

The importance of scholarship by language practitioners in higher education

Best Practices in English Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Lessons from Hong Kong for Global Practice / edited By Lillian L. C. Wong. UK : Routledge, 2023, p. 200-213, Ch. 13
Whong, Melinda K
Book chapter

2022 1

A blindspot in applied linguistics

Pedagogical Linguistics, v. 3, (2), July 2022, p. 181-186
Whong, Melinda Karen
Article

2020 5

The acquisition of english l2 lexical and phrasal plural marking

International Journal of Language Studies, v. 14, (3), 2020, p. 85-98
Burhansyah, Burhansyah; Whong, Melinda Karen
Article

Grammar: A Linguists' Guide for Language Teachers

Rankin, Tom; Whong, Melinda Karen
Book

What is Good Academic Writing? Insights into Discipline-Specific Student Writing

Whong, Melinda Karen; Godfrey, Jeanne
Book

A Collaborative Scholarship Model of EAP Research and Practice

What is Good Academic Writing: Insights into Discipline-Specific Student Writing / Melinda Whong and Jeanne Godfrey, editors. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, p. 9-31, Chapter 1
Godfrey, Jeanne; Whong, Melinda Karen
Book chapter

Grammatical Concepts for Pedagogical Grammar

Formal Linguistics and Language Education: New Empirical Perspectives / Editors, Andreas Trotzke, Tanja Kupisch. Switzerland : Springer Nature, 2020, p. 21-41, Book Series: Educational Linguistics, v. 43
Rankin, Tom; Whong, Melinda Karen
Book chapter

2019 2

The meaning of negation in the second language classroom: Evidence from ‘any’

Language Teaching Research, v. 23, (2), March 2019, p. 218-236
Gil, Kook-Hee; Marsden, Heather; Whong, Melinda Karen
Article

‘Dual Pracitioning’: A step beyond collaboration

Godfrey, Jeanne; Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

2018 1

What's in the textbook and what's in the mind: Polarity item "any" in learner English

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, v. 40, (1), March 2018, p. 91-118
Marsden, Heather; Whong, Melinda Karen; Gil, Kook-Hee
Article

2017 2

A combined offer: collaborative development through a content-based pre-sessional programme

Bond, B.; Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

Developing Co-curricular Language Learning Activities

Schneider, Carolin; Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

2015 1

The meaning of negation in classroom instruction

Marsden, Heather; Gil, Kook-Hee; Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

2014 3

Beyond paradigm: The ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of classroom research

Second Language Research, v. 30, (4), October 2014, p. 551-568
Whong, Melinda Karen; Gil, Kook-Hee; Marsden, Heather
Article

A role for generative SLA in classroom research

Gil, Kook-Hee; Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

Complexity in Language Learning: The Need for Linguistic Expertise

Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

2013 9

A linguistic perspective on communicative language teaching

Language Learning Journal, v. 41, (1), April 2013, p. 115-128
Whong, Melinda Karen
Article

Universal Grammar and the Second Language Classroom

Whong, Melinda Karen; Gil, Kook-Hee; Marsden, Heather
Book

Applied generative SLA: The need for an agenda and a methodology

Universal Grammar and the Second Language Classroom / Whong, Melinda, Gil, Kook-Hee, Marsden, Heather (Eds.). Dordrecht : Springer, 2013, p. 231-247, Book series: Educational Linguistics, v. 16.
Whong, Melinda Karen
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Can explicit grammar instruction serve as evidence for L2 grammar restructuring?

Advances in Language Acquisition / Edited by Stavroula Stavrakaki, Marina Lalioti, Polyxeni Konstantinopoulou. Cambridge : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, p. 328-336, Ch. 36. Book series: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference Proceedings
Gil, Kook-Hee; Marsden, Heather; Whong, Melinda Karen
Book chapter

Quantifiers: Form and meaning in second language development

Universal Grammar and the Second Language Classroom / Whong, Melinda, Gil, Kook-Hee, Marsden, Heather (Eds.). Dordrecht : Springer, 2013, p. 139-159, Book series: Educational Linguistics, v. 16.
Gil, Kook-Hee; Marsden, Heather; Whong, Melinda Karen
Book chapter

Scope and research methodologies

The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition / Edited by Julia Herschensohn, Martha Young-Scholten. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. 71-92, Pt. 1, Ch. 4. Book series: Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
Whong, Melinda Karen; Wright, Clare
Book chapter

Applying Generative SLA to the Language Classroom

Whong, Melinda Karen; Marsden, Heather; Gil, Kook-Hee
Conference paper

Can researching any tell us anything about teaching?

Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

How we can learn from acquisition: the acquisition-learning debate revisited

Proceedings of the 12th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2013) / edited by Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro, Tiffany Judy, and Diego Pascual y Cabo. Somerville, MA, USA : Cascadilla Press, 2013, p. 203-210
Whong, Melinda Karen; Marsden, Heather; Gil, Kook-Hee
Conference paper

2011 4

Language Teaching: Linguistic Theory in Practice

Whong, Melinda Karen
Book

Can explicit grammar instruction serve as evidence for L2 grammar restructuring?

Gil, Kook-Hee; Marsden, Heather; Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

Half a century on: What relevance does generative SLA have for language teaching?

Whong, Melinda Karen; Gil, Kook-Hee
Conference paper

L2 acquisition of any: negative evidence, negative implicature and negative L1 transfer

Selected Proceedings of the 2010 Second Language Research Forum : Reconsidering SLA Research, Dimensions, and Directions / edited by Gisela Granena, Joel Koeth, Sunyoung Lee-Ellis, Anna Lukyanchenko, Goretti Prieto Botana, and Elizabeth Rhoades. Somerville, MA, USA : Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2011, p. 29-39
Gil, Kook-Hee; Marsden, Heather; Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

2009 1

Proceedings of the 2007 BALEAP Conference: EAP in a Globalizing World: English as an Academic Lingua Franca

Whong, Melinda Karen
Book

2008 1

Towards a principled basis for language teaching

Smith, Mike Sharwood; Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

2007 2

Implications of MOGUL for the EAP classroom

Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

Reading for writing: Where reality and theory come together

Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

2006 2

What transfers?

Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz / Edited by Sharon Unsworth, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace, Martha Young-Scholten. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2006, p. 187-199, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, Bk. 39
Whong, Melinda Karen
Book chapter

Starting from Strength: Achieving Success in EAP

Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

2005 3

SLA Research: Implications for language teaching

Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

Transfer of argument structure and morphology

Proceedings of the 7th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2004) / edited by Laurent Dekydtspotter, Rex A. Sprouse, and Audrey Liljestrand. Somerville, MA, USA : Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2005, p. 269-282
Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

Why we should teach morphology?

Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

2003 1

The interaction of transfer and access: Explaining failure in adult second language acquisition

Interkulturelles und transkulturelles Lernen im Fremdsprachenunterricht / edited by Johannes Eckerth and Michael Wendt. Frankfurt/M. : Peter Lang, 2003, Book series: Kolloquium Fremdsprachenunterricht
Whong, Melinda Karen
Book chapter

2002 4

Morphological and syntactic transfer in child L2 acquisition of the English dative alternation

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, v. 24, (4), December 2002, p. 579-616
Whong, Melinda Karen; Schwartz, Bonnie D.
Article

Distinct developmental paths: a child L2 study of the English dative alternation

Whong, Melinda Karen; Schwartz, Bonnie
Conference paper

Small clauses are bigger

Proceedings of the 2002 LSK International Sumer Conference / The Linguistic society of Korea. Seoul, Korea : The Linguistic society of Korea, 2002, p. 159-170
Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

Valency-changing functional morphology and L2 acquisition

Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

2001 3

Telicity in the Second Language [Book review]

Linguist List, v. 12, 2001, article number 2795
Whong, Melinda Karen
Book review

Morphological transfer effects in child L2 acquisition of English double-object datives

BUCLD 25: Proceedings of the 25th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development / edited by Anna H.-J. Do, Laura Domínguez, and Aimee Johansen. Somerville, MA, USA : Cascadilla Press, 2001, p. 803-814
Whong, Melinda Karen; Schwartz, Bonnie D.
Conference paper

The alternative realization of agreement

Fender, Mary; Marsden, Heather; Van Espen, Lieve; Whong, Melinda Karen
Conference paper

2000 1

Japanese and Korean children's L2 acquisition of the English dative alternation

Proceedings of the First Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics / Edited by Yukio Otsu. Tokyo : Hituzi Syobo Publishing Company, 2000, p. 181-200
Whong, Melinda Karen; Schwartz, Bonnie D.
Conference paper

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