Joyce graduated with first class honours from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a degree in language studies, specialising in English, Chinese, linguistics and corporate communication. She earned her Master of Philosophy degree in education from University of Cambridge. Her MPhil thesis, which was presented in the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Annual Research Forum, looks at the L2 politeness strategies in requestive discourses adopted by Hong Kong Cantonese ESL learners studying at tertiary level; a number of pedagogical implications have been drawn from the findings.
Her research interests include applied linguistics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, phonology, contrastive analysis of Chinese and English, intercultural communication, computer-mediated communication, and second language acquisition and education, especially in ESL and EFL contexts. She currently teaches a number of communication, applied linguistics and English language subjects at PolyU SPEED.
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