Dr MA Qing (Angel) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies and currently holds the position of Associate Dean (Research & Postgraduate Studies) in the Faculty of Humanities at The Education University of Hong Kong. Her research primarily focuses on second language vocabulary acquisition, computer-assisted language learning (CALL), mobile-assisted language learning (MALL), corpus linguistics, corpus-based literature studies, corpus-based language pedagogy (CBLP) and AI in language education.

She has developed the Parallel EAP Corpora (http://corpus.eduhk.hk/eap/) for research purposes, as well as the Corpus-Aided Platform for Language Teachers (CAP) (http://corpus.eduhk.hk/cap/) and the Corpus-Based Language Pedagogy for English Teachers (https://pressbooks.pub/cmtry1/) for teaching applications. She is an experimenter of corpus technology in teaching, and passionate English teacher trainer. She has established a new corpus-based language pedagogy by theorising and empirically testing it that has positively impacted many pre-service and in-service English teachers. She is the associate editor for four journals: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL); International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT); The Journal of China Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ChinaCALL); Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning.

• Second language vocabulary acquisition
• Corpus linguistics, corpus-based language pedagogy (CBLP), corpus-based literature studies
• Computer assisted language learning (CALL)
• Mobile assisted language learning (MALL)
• AI in language education

Journal editor

• Associate Editor of Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (RPTEL)
• Associate Editor of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
• Associate Editor of Journal of China Computer Assisted Language Learning
• Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT)

Editorial Board 

• Applied Corpus Linguistics
• International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Teaching and Learning (IJAITL)
• Educational Psychology
• Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
• International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT)
• Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning
• International Education Research

Professional Membership

• Member of the Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics (HAAL), Hong Kong
• Member of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), USA
• Member of International TESOL Association (TESOL), USA
• Member of Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE), Belgium 
• Member of the European Association of Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), Europe

Lexis, Morphology and Semantics

Second Language Research Methods