Dr YU Kam Wan Anora
Senior Lecturer
Director, Common Core English Programme
Director, English Language Centre
MA in Education, University of Hull, UK
BA(Hons) in Linguistics and Educational Studies, University of Lancaster, UK
Courses Taught
English Usage
English Writing
Research Interests
Narrative Inquiry
Leadership in Higher Education
L2 English Teaching and Learning
Publications
Yu, A. (2021). A narrative inquiry into washback of high-stakes and low-stakes testing on second language English writing in Hong Kong higher education. In B. Reynolds, & M. Teng (Eds.). Innovative Approaches in Teaching English Writing to Chinese Speakers (pp. 176-206). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512643-008
Yu, A. (2019). Becoming a leader? A narrative inquiry into the leadership practice of an English language centre administrator of a higher education institution in Hong Kong. Cambridge Open-Review Educational Research e-Journal, 6 (1), 195-210. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.46565
Yu. A. (2017). Being, becoming and belonging - Identity ambiguity or identity demystification?: A narrative inquiry into the professional identities of an associate department head of a higher education insititution in Hong Kong. University of Bristol, UK.
Conference Presentations
Multiple truths and multiple realities: Fictionalisation as re-presentation in narrative inquiry, paper presented at Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain on 30 May 2019
A narrative inquiry into washback of high-stakes and low-stakes testing for L2 English writing in Hong Kong higher education, paper presented at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Campus de la Ciutadella, Barcelona, Spain on 27 August 2018
With or without borders? Perceptions of an associate department head of a higher education institution in Hong Kong, paper presented at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK on 1 June 2017