Qing Ma is Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies and currently serves as Associate Dean (Research & Postgraduate Studies) at Faculty of Humanities, The Education University of Hong Kong. Her main research interests include second language vocabulary acquisition, corpus linguistics, corpus-based literature studies, corpus-based language pedagogy (CBLP), computer assisted language learning (CALL), mobile assisted language learning (MALL), and AI in language education.

She has created the Parallel EAP Corpora (http://corpus.eduhk.hk/eap/) for research applications and the Corpus-Aided Platform for Language Teachers (CAP) (http://corpus.eduhk.hk/cap/) to innovate teaching methodologies. As an experimenter of corpus technology in language education, she is a passionate trainer for English teachers. She has conceptualised and empirically validated a new approach, Corpus-Based Language Pedagogy (CBLP), which has positively influenced numerous pre-service and in-service teachers.

She serves as an associate editor for five international journals: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Language Learning & Technology (LL&T), International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT), The Journal of China Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ChinaCALL), and Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (RPTEL).

Awards

• “Best Paper Article” at the 4th International Conference on Creative and Innovative Technology in Education 2025, July 1-2, 2025, University of Technology Malaysia, Malaysia
• President’s Award for Outstand Performance in Research, May 20, 2025, The Education University of Hong Kong
• 2025 TESOL Award for Excellence in Research, March 19, 2025, USA
• “Best Paper Award” at the International Conference on TeLLT & CoLLT 2024, July 05, Hong Kong
• Award for Excellent FE Supervision, EdUHK, June, 2024, Hong Kong
• Dean’s International Research Collaboration Award, 2023, Oct 16, FHM, EdUHK, Hong Kong
• “The Best Paper Presentation Award” at the 2^nd APSCE International Conference on Future Language Learning 2023, May 31, Beijing, China
• Finalist of University Grants Committee (UGC) Teaching Award, September 28, 2021, Hong Kong
• President’s Award for Outstand Performance in Teaching, May 27, 2021, The Education University of Hong Kong
• 2020 Esperanto "Access to Language Education” Award, June 2, 2020, USA
• Faculty Teaching Award 2019-2020, May, 2020, The Education University of Hong Kong
• Silver Medal of the 47^th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, April 12, 2019, Switzerland

• 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

Deputy Director of the Computer-Assisted Language Learning Association of China

External examiner of MA in English Language Teaching and Assessment program (Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

Member of TESOL Research Professional Council, TESOL International Association

Journal Editorship

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

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