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Dr. Franziska O. Y. Cheng | 鄭安儀博士

Lecturer, Early Childhood and Elementary Education Division

Programme Coordination

Programme Director, Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Early Childhood Education (Full-time) (2023-Present)
Programme Director, Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Early Childhood Education (Part-time) (2023-Present)
Associate Programme Director, Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Early Childhood Education (Full-time) (2022-2023)
Associate Programme Director, Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Early Childhood Education (Part-time) (2022-2023)
Person-in-Charge, SCOLAR English Language Enhancement Programmes for Kindergarten Teachers (Level One) and (Level Two) (2022-Present)
Person-in-Charge, SCOLAR Chinese Language Enhancement Programmes for Kindergarten Teachers (Foundation Course) and (Extended Course – NCS) (2023-Present)

Course(s) taught

BECE3510 Appreciation and Writing of Children’s Literature
BECE4320 Early English Learning II
BECE4451 Honours Project
CECE7308 Language and Literacy Development in the Early Years
EECE3590 Young Children’s Literature and Literacy Development
EECE4530 English Linguistics for Early Childhood Educators
HECE1630 English for University Studies I
HECE2140 Language Development in Early Childhood Education
HECE2140 Language and Literacy Development in Early Childhood (since 2020)
English Language Enhancement Courses for Nursery School Teachers of Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children (HKSPC)

Journal Paper (peer-reviewed)

Cheng, O. Y. F. (2014) Jacques Lacan and the Intrinsic (Un)translatability of Names: ‘Name’ in the English-Chinese Translation of Winterson’s Art & Lies. New Voices in Translation Studies, vol. 11:96-119.

Article

Cheng, O. Y. F. (2020) 幼兒文學益處多 (The Benefits of Children’s Literature) in eCampus Today《今日校園》, Issue 258, June 2022, also online at http://www.ecampustoday.com.hk/book-detail.php?id=3743

Theses

Cheng, O. Y. F. (2017) Shakespeare and Gender Ambiguity. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. https://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1587295
Cheng, O. Y. F. (2012) A Lacanian perspective on literature, translation and the reader’s (inter-)subjectivity: read my text and tell me who you are. Lingnan University. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=eng_etd

Conference Presentations (recent 3 years)

Cheng, O. Y. F. (2022, Aug). The Interconnectedness of Ecology, Environment and Human Psyche in Children’s Literature: Identity Crisis and Anxiety in Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. Paper presented at the International Conference on Environment and Human Health: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century, Hong Kong SAR.
Cheng, O. Y. F. (2022, Aug). A Lacanian Perspective to Punishment in Children’s Stories in the Chinese Culture: Symbolic Suicide as Retribution and Redemption. Paper presented at The Narratives of Criminality, Punishment and Social Justice in Children’s & Young Adults Literature Conference, Jadavpur University, Department of English in collaboration with The Association for Children’s Literature in South Asia [online conference].

Principal Investigator, Hong Kong Baptist University, Seed Grant Funding Scheme 2021/22. Embracing New Pedagogy in Early English Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Hong Kong Kindergarten Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Cognitive Linguistics in Teaching Count Nouns and Mass Nouns to ESL Learners as PI, (July 2022 – June 2024: HKD$97,915)