Biography
Emma Rao joined the Center for Language Education, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2012. Her teaching centers on Chinese language communication for both local students and non-Chinese language background students. Her research areas are second language acquisition, language study and cultural identity.
Areas of Expertise
Curriculum design and common core courses development
CORE1413 Advanced Putonghua for Non-Chinese Language Background Students
Teaching Chinese as second language
Putonghua learning and self-identity
Corpus-based synonym acquisition
Chinese teachers' agency
CORE1413 Advanced Putonghua for Non-Chinese Language Background Students
Teaching Chinese as second language
Putonghua learning and self-identity
Corpus-based synonym acquisition
Chinese teachers' agency
Teaching
CORE 1413 Advanced Putonghua for Non-Chinese Language Background Students
CORE 1416I Effective Chinese Communication
LANG 1113I Effective Chinese Communication
LANG 1113P Effective Chinese Communication
LANG 1120 Chinese for Non-Chinese Language Background Students I
LANG 1126 Chinese for Non-Chinese Language Background Students VII
LANG 1416I Effective Chinese Communication
LANG 1424P Chinese Writing in Cultural Contexts
Scholarship
Publications
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愫 袁; 隱 鍾; 樂怡 黃; 宇靖 饒. June 2025. Journal Article.
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Yu Jing 饒宇靖. February 2023. 文化共融：世界華語教學的策略與實踐. 紅出版 (青森文化). Book Chapter.
Conference Presentations
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Yin Zhong; Yujing Rao. 2024. Chinese Lexical Semantics - 24th Workshop, CLSW 2023, Revised Selected Papers. 24th Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics, CLSW 2023, Singapore. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Conference Paper published in a book. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0586-3_28