Degree: Ph.D., Chinese University of Hong Kong, (2002)

Email: xltong@hku.hk

Phone: +852 2241 5982

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Correspondence Address:

Room 804C, Meng Wah Complex,

The University of Hong Kong,
Pokfulam, Hong Kong.

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Recent Honors and Awards:

• HKU Faculty of Education Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2016)

• HKU Faculty of Education Early Research Output Award (2016)

• HKU Overseas Fellowship Award (2015)

• National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011)

• Travel Award for a Canadian Conference on Developmental Psychology (2010)      

• Dalhousie University Postdoctoral Fellow Conference Travel Grant (2010)

 

Profile

Dr. Shelley Tong is an expert on language and literacy development in bilingual children. Her areas of expertise include: Reading development and difficulties in bilingual children; Prosodic reading; Statistical learning of Chinese orthography; Cross-language perception of suprasegmental speech; Morphological awareness in Chinese; Learning Chinese as a foreign language; Chinese writing error analysis. She has published over 25 peer-reviewed journal articles, and is regarded as a rising scholar in the field of biliteracy acquisition. She is currently a visiting scientist at Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan.

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