People
Dr. Franziska O. Y. Cheng | 鄭安儀博士
Lecturer, Early Childhood and Elementary Education Division
Teaching Areas
Programme Coordination
- Programme Director, Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Early Childhood Education (Full-time) (2023-Present)
- Programme Director, Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Early Childhood Education (Part-time) (2023-Present)
- Associate Programme Director, Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Early Childhood Education (Full-time) (2022-2023)
- Associate Programme Director, Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Early Childhood Education (Part-time) (2022-2023)
- Person-in-Charge, SCOLAR English Language Enhancement Programmes for Kindergarten Teachers (Level One) and (Level Two) (2022-Present)
- Person-in-Charge, SCOLAR Chinese Language Enhancement Programmes for Kindergarten Teachers (Foundation Course) and (Extended Course – NCS) (2023-Present)
Course(s) taught
- BECE3510 Appreciation and Writing of Children’s Literature
- BECE4320 Early English Learning II
- BECE4451 Honours Project
- CECE7308 Language and Literacy Development in the Early Years
- EECE3590 Young Children’s Literature and Literacy Development
- EECE4530 English Linguistics for Early Childhood Educators
- HECE1630 English for University Studies I
- HECE2140 Language Development in Early Childhood Education: Play
- HECE2140 Language and Literacy Development in the Early Years (since 2020)
- English Language Enhancement Courses for Nursery School Teachers of Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children (HKSPC)
Research Interests
- Children’s Literature
- ESL teaching and learning
- Early English learning
Selected Publications
Journal Paper (peer-reviewed)
- 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.
Article
- 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
Theses
- 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. (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
Conference Presentations (recent 3 years)
- 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 Adults Literature Conference, Jadavpur University, Department of English in collaboration with The Association for Children’s Literature in South Asia [online conference].
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)