Educational Qualifications

BA in Translation and German (HKU), CertTESOL (Trinity College London), Postgraduate Diploma in Education — Major in English (CUHK), MSc in TESOL (Edinburgh)

Ivy Chau is an English Teaching Associate and curriculum developer at the Centre for Language Education, HKUST, with experience across secondary, post-secondary and university-level contexts in Hong Kong. Her professional interests include technology-enhanced language learning, translanguaging pedagogy and educational programme development.

Before joining CLE, Ivy taught English at an international school in Hong Kong for three years, working with junior high school students across different proficiency levels, and delivered business English at the Vocational Training Council.

In addition to her teaching duties, Ivy serves as QEF Project Curriculum Team Lead and Project Manager at CLE, leading the development of an AI-VR English speaking application for local secondary school students. Her responsibilities span curriculum design, project operations, school outreach and cross-team coordination among the AI, VR and app development teams. Her MSc dissertation, awarded Distinction, examined translanguaging and teacher perspectives towards this pedagogy.