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Dr Sheng Tan

Dr Sheng Tan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Education and Academic Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Hong Kong
  • Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics (with Distinction), University College London (UCL)
  • Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature, Southwest Jiaotong University

Academic and Professional Experience

  • Postdoctoral Fellow (January 2025 - present), Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Project Associate (September 2023 - December 2024), English Language Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Research Interests

  • Bilingual education
  • Educational psychology
  • English-medium instruction
  • Second language acquisition
  • Second language writing
  • Technology-enhanced education
  • Translanguaging

Research Output

  1. Fan, Y., Tan, S., & Lim, G. Y. W*. (2024). EAP teacher feedback in the age of AI: Supporting first-year students in EFL disciplinary writing. Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics7(3), 1943. https://doi.org/10.29140/ajal.v7n3.1943
  2. Tan, S*. (2024). Translanguaging in second language writing processes. Linguistics and Education, 83, 101333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2024.101333
  3. Zhong, Y., Tan, S., Xu, X*., Shao, Z., & Liu, Q. (2024). Second language learners’ academic emotions in grammar learning with explicit attention to grammatical complexity. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2024.2407042
  4. Tan, S*. (2023). Second language students’ critical thinking performance in argumentative writing. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation6(10), 112-130. https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.10.15

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