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Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Applied Gerontology

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School of Arts and Humanities

Dr. Raphael HONG Yifeng (洪奕峰博士)

Lecturer (講師)
Office: 23/F, School of Arts and Humanities, Tung Wah College Cheung Kung Hai Memorial Building, 90A Shantung Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon
Telephone: (852) 3725 6158
Email: [email protected]

Biography
Dr. Yifeng Raphael HONG serves as a Lecturer in English at the School of Arts and Humanities, Tung Wah College. He is also the coordinator of the Language Buddy Programme at CAPLE. Prior to joining Tung Wah College, he taught at Rikkyo University as an English Lecturer and Waseda University as an Adjunct English Lecturer in Tokyo, Japan for five years. He also taught English as a Second Language (ESL) courses in Philadelphia, U.S. for three years before the relocation to Japan. Dr. HONG’s primary research interests include internationalization of higher education (IoHE) policies and practices in East Asia, the nexus of educational/academic mobility and migration, migrant transnationalism, critical studies of English and English pedagogy.

Academic and Professional Qualifications
B.A., M.S.Ed., Ph.D.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology of Education & Higher Education, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, HK SAR

Master of Science in Education (TESOL), Graduate School of Education, The University of Pennsylvania, USA

Teaching Areas

English Language Education

Courses taught at Tung Wah College (Spring 2025):

ENG2011 English for Healthcare Professionals

ENG0100 English Enhancement 1

Research Interests

Internationalization of Higher Education (IoHE) Policies and Practices

Mobility, Migration and Transnationalism

Qualitative Research Methods (Ethnography and Qualitative Social Network Analysis)

Critical Studies of English and Sociolinguistics of Mobility

English Language Education

Publications (Selected)

Hong, Y., & Horta, H. (2025). Transnational Academic Mobility to Japan: Capital, Habitus, Agency and Social Network Embeddedness. Springer.

Hong, Y. (2023). Transnational Academic Mobility in Japan. [Doctoral dissertation, The University of Hong Kong]. HKU Thesis Online.

Hong, Y. (2017). Effects of post-task form-focused instruction on target language development in communicative EFL classes. In J. Lesley, M. Livingston, T. Moroi, & M. Schafer. (Eds.), New Directions in Teaching and Learning English Discussion (Vols. 5). Tokyo: Rikkyo University.

Hong, Y. (2016). Teaching formulaic sequences as form-focused instructions in communicative discussion classes. In J. Lesly, M. Livingston, T. Moroi, & D. Young. (Eds.), New Directions in Teaching and Learning English Discussion (Vols. 4). Tokyo: Rikkyo University.

Conference Presentations (Selected)

Hong, Y. (2024). Transnational academic mobility to Japan, a critical framework [Paper Presentation]. Comparative and International Education Society Conference, Miami USA.

Hong, Y. (2023). Transnational academic mobility to Japan [Paper Presentation]. Higher Education Research Association Conference, Hiroshima Japan.

Hong, Y. (2019). A methodology review of transnational academic mobility literature [Paper Presentation]. British Education Research Association Conference, Manchester UK.

Hong, Y. (2018). Asian student mobility to Japan [Paper Presentation]. Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong Conference, Hong Kong.

Hong, Y. (2015). A Chinese teaching English discussion skills in Japan? An action research [Paper Presentation]. Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) Conference, Leuven, Belgium.

Community/Professional Contributions

Reviewer for Higher Education, Higher Education Quarterly

Alumni Admission Interviewer for the University of Pennsylvania

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