Winnie Wai Lan Shum

Winnie Shum is an English language instructor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is currently also doing her PhD in the department of Applied Linguistics at University of Warwick. Apart from teaching English for Academic Purpose courses, she has also been actively involved in designing and organising virtual exchange programmes to enhance students’ intercultural pragmatics skills and their use of English as a lingua franca. Her research interests include developing pedagogy for intercultural language teaching and learning, employing technology to enhance learning experience and quality, intercultural pragmatics, discourse and conversation analysis.