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Dr. Franziska O. Y. Cheng  |  鄭安儀博士

Programme Director, Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Early Childhood Education; Lecturer, Early Childhood and Elementary Education Division

 3411 1989

Teaching Areas

  • Academic English
  • English Linguistics
  • Literary Analysis
  • Creative Writing
  • Early English Learning
  • Language and Literacy Development
  • Teachers Training
  • Research Project Supervision

Research Interests

  • Children’s Literature
  • ESL Education
  • Early English Learning

Selected Publications

  • Cheng, O. Y. F. (2022, Aug). The Interconnectedness of Ecology, Environment and Human Psyche in Children’s Literature: Identity Crisis and Anxiety in Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. Paper presented at the International Conference on Environment and Human Health: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century, Hong Kong SAR.
  • Cheng, O. Y. F. (2022, Aug). A Lacanian Perspective to Punishment in Children’s Stories in the Chinese Culture: Symbolic Suicide as Retribution and Redemption. Paper presented at The Narratives of Criminality, Punishment and Social Justice in Children’s & Young Adult Literature Conference, Jadavpur University, Department of English in collaboration with the Association for Children’s Literature in South Asia [online conference].
  • Cheng, O. Y. F. (2020) 幼兒文學益處多 (The Benefits of Children’s Literature) in eCampus Today《今日校園》, Issue 258, June 2022, also online at http://www.ecampustoday.com.hk/book-detail.php?id=3743
  • Cheng, O. Y. F. (2017) Shakespeare and Gender Ambiguity. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. https://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1587295
  • Cheng, O. Y. F. (2014) Jacques Lacan and the Intrinsic (Un)translatability of Names: ‘Name’ in the English-Chinese Translation of Winterson’s Art & Lies. New Voices in Translation Studies, vol. 11:96-119.
  • Cheng, O. Y. F. (2012) A Lacanian Perspective on Literature, Translation and the Reader’s (Inter-)subjectivity: Read my Text and Tell me Who you are. Lingnan University. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=eng_etd

Grants

  • Principal Investigator, Hong Kong Baptist University, Seed Grant Funding Scheme 2021/22. Embracing New Pedagogy in Early English Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Hong Kong Kindergarten Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Cognitive Linguistics in Teaching Count Nouns and Mass Nouns to ESL Learners as PI (July 2022 – June 2024: HKD$97,915)