Dr TAM, Wing Yu Hugo    譚詠瑜 博士
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese Language Studies
Contact
ORCiD
0000-0003-4491-0324
Phone
(852) 2948 7554
Email
twingyu@eduhk.hk
Address
10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong
Website
https://pappl.eduhk.hk/rich/web/person.xhtml?pid=205818&name=TAM, Wing Yu Hugo
Personal Profile

Hugo Wing-Yu TAM

Education

• Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• M.A. in Chinese Linguistics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• B.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, National Taiwan Normal University

Non-Degree Education

• Visiting Research Program in Thai Studies (Southeast Asian Linguistics), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

• Intensive Korean Program (Online), Seoul National University, South Korea

Research Interests

• Teaching Cantonese and Mandarin as Second Languages

• Home, Heritage and Community Language Education

• Classroom Discourse and Interaction

• Multilingualism and Glocalised Powers

Teaching Interests

• L2 Chinese Pedagogy and Curriculum (GCSE/IGCSE & GCE A-Level)

• Teaching Chinese Language in International School Contexts

• Materials Development in Language Learning

• Sociolinguistics of Multilingualism

• Languages and Cultures of Hong Kong and Singapore

Research Outputs
Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2021). 漢語作為菁英的外語：國際學校漢語系列教材《中文真棒》的發展歷程. 輯於謝家浩、張連航編, 《國際漢語教材設計與遠程電子教學》 (132-148). 香港：學術專業圖書中心.

Journal Publications
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2025). The sequential and embodied organisation of learner initiatives for peer support in multilingual classrooms: a conversation-analytic perspective. The Language Learning Journal, Epub ahead of Print, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2024.2305647
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2025). Sour soup, Tom Yum, or Dongyin? What can a menu tell us about linguistic capital and multilingual development in contemporary Thailand?. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 46(9), 2730-2744. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2024.2305647
Hugo Wing-Yu Tam (2025). Co-constructing orthographic mediated space through Sinographic visualization in Hong Kong Chinese-as-an-additional-language classroom interactions. Applied Linguistics, Epub ahead of Print, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amaf031
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. & Liu, Jinghan. (2024). 到底先教「了1」還是「了2」？從英語為母語者「了」字句的習得看教學排序之爭. 華語文教學研究, 21(4), 1-29.
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. & Tsang, Samuel. C. S. (2024). Cantonese culinary lexical interaction between Hong Kong and Singapore English: How can Sinograph shape translingual words with English today? English Today, 40(2), 85-96. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078423000366
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. & Kim, Sun-A. (2024). Strategies used in learning Chinese vocabulary by adolescent Mandarin-Korean bilinguals in Korea. International Journal of Multilingualism, 21(1), 36-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2021.2004152
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. & Tsang, Samuel. C. S. (2023). Towards a reconceptualisation of the Cantonese lexicon in contemporary Hong Kong: Classificatory possibilities and their implications for the local Chinese-as-an-additional-language curriculum. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 26(4), 428-456. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2022.2116267
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2021)。 「是」字句和「是……的」句的教學語法：以九套國際學校中文教材為例。 全球華語，7(2)，143-157。 https://doi.org/10.1515/glochi-2021-2007
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2021)。 「粵語語法學習概覽」的建構：廣東話第二語言語法學甚麽？何時教？漢語教學研究：美國中文教師學會學報，56(3)，209-228。https://doi.org/10.1075/csl.21009.tam
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2021)。 香港粵語利益性接收標記「多謝」的話語功能及其語法浮現。 清華學報，51(3)，539-585。 https://doi.org/10.6503/THJCS.202109_51(3).0004
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2019)。 印尼華裔中學生繼承語學習動機及其影響因素。 漢語教學研究：美國中文教師學會學報，54(2)，145-182。 https://doi.org/10.1075/csl.18013.tam


All Other Outputs
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2024). Review of Djenar & Sidnell (2023): Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self-Other Relations across Southeast Asian Speech Communities. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 55(1), 185-186.
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2024). 評Errington (2022)：《其他印尼話：非母語中的民族主義》. 臺灣人類學刊, 22(1), 211-215.
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2023). 評梁慧敏、李楚成 (2020)：《兩文三語：香港語文教育政策研究》. Hong Kong Studies, 3(2), 1-6.
Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu. (2022). Review of Kiaer (2021): Delicious words: East Asian food words in English. International Journal of Language and Culture, 9(2), 322-324.

Projects
A Multimodal Conversation Analytic Study of Language and Social Interaction in Dining Conversations
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Project Start Year: 2024, Principal Investigator(s): TAM, Wing Yu, Hugo