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Professor Tong, Xiuli 佟秀麗
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Professor Tong, Xiuli 佟秀麗
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Research Interests:(click to check for cognate researchers)
- Auditory-visual speech perception of lexical tones in tone and non-tone speakers
- Bilingual-environment infants’ speech-specific pitch perception and early word learning
- Modelling of visual word recognition
- Dyslexics and poor comprehenders across languages
- Semantic continuity and orthographic learning
- Lexical and sublexical representation in children and adults
- Bilinguals’ biliteracy acquisition
Also Cited As:
Tong, SX
Professional Qualifications
| Year | Awarding Institution | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Ph.D. in Psychology |
Biography
Dr. Shelley Xiuli Tong is an assistant professor in the division of speech and hearing sciences. She earned her Ph.D. degree in psychology Department from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology of Dalhousie University in Canada (2008-2010) and MARCS Institute of the University of Western Sydney in Australia (2010-2011).
Honours, Awards & Prizes
| Awardees | Award Date | Honours / Awards / Prizes | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-05-01 | Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award (Team Award): Faculty of Education | Teaching Accomplishment | |
| 2019-06-01 | Fulbright-RGC Hong Kong Senior Research Scholar Award: Research Grants Council-U.S. Consulate-General in Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2020-07-01 | RGC Research Fellow: Hong Kong Research Council (RGC) | Research Achievement | |
| 2019-09-01 | Visiting Scholar, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco: School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco | Research Achievement | |
| 2019-06-01 | J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship: Research Grants Council-U.S. Consulate-General in Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2019-01-01 | Young Research Talent of HKU’s Strategically Oriented Research Themes (SORT) (2019): The University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2006-09-01 | Dr. Lion Francis K. Pan Scholarship: The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2005-10-01 | Outstanding Graduate Research Scholarship: South China Normal University | Research Achievement | |
| 2011-08-01 | Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship: The U.S.A National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation | Research Achievement | |
| 2002-07-01 | The First Psychology Major Recipient of The Chancellor's Medal for The Student With Highest Grade Point Average In Four Consecutive Years: Northeast Normal University | Research Achievement | |
| 2002-07-01 | Undergraduate Dissertation Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis: Northeast Normal University | Research Achievement | |
| 2008-07-01 | The first recipient of the Rebecca L.Sandak Young Investigator Award: Society for Scientific Studies of Reading | Research Achievement | |
| 2009-04-01 | The U.S. Jacobs Foundation International Travel Award for International researchers: The Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development | Research Achievement | |
| 2015-05-01 | HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards: The University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2015-07-01 | Visiting Scholar, Harvard Graduate School of Education: Harvard University | Research Achievement | |
| 2018-04-01 | Visiting Scientist: Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan | Research Achievement | |
| 2016-07-01 | Early Career Research Output Award: Faculty of Education | Research Achievement | |
| 2016-06-01 | Outstanding Young Researcher: Faculty of Education | Research Achievement | |
| 2017-08-01 | Research Output Prize: Faculty of Education | Research Achievement |
Professional Societies
| Term Period | Position | Professional Societies |
|---|---|---|
| 05/2020-Present | Elected Board Member | Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA) |
| 03/2019-Present | Membership Committee | Scientific Study of Reading |
| 08/2011-08/2018 | Voting member | Society of Scientific Studies of Reading |
| 12/2013-12/2017 | Editorial Board Member | Annals of Dyslexia |
| 02/2018-present | Editorial Board Member | Scientific Study of Reading |
| 01/2017-07/2020 | Associate Editor | Applied Psycholinguistics |
| 10/2016-present | Review Editor | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Area of Expertise:
| Area of Expertise (EN) | Area of Expertise (ZH) |
|---|---|
| Reading comprehension difficulties across English and Chinese | 中英文閱讀理解障礙 |
| Computational modeling of Chinese character processing | 中文漢字的計算加工處理模型 |
| Bilingual infants’ speech perception and production | 雙語嬰兒言語理解及產生 |
Spoken Languages:
| Spoken Language(s) (EN) | Spoken Language(s) (ZH) |
|---|---|
| English, Putonghua | 英語、普通話 |
Written Languages:
| Written Language(s) (EN) | Written Language(s) (ZH) |
|---|---|
| Chinese, English | 中文、英文 |
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