PhD Macquarie University, Australia, 2006
Personal Home Page: http://sbprabooks.com/susannaho/
Susanna Ho has a BA from University of Manitoba majoring in English literature,
an MA (Teaching English as a Second Language) from City University of Hong
Kong, a Postgraduate Certificate of Education from the University of Hong Kong,
and a PhD from Macquarie University, Sydney. She had taught ESL and English
literature in pre-university courses before joining the Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology.
She teaches English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes
at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. In 2006, she completed her PhD
studies at Macquarie University with the thesis entitled “Exploring writing
strategies employed by accounting/finance majors in the university and the
workplace”. Her research interests are second language writing, interdisciplinary
discourse, qualitative research methodology and autonomy in language learning.
In the process of exploring her subjects’ writing practices and writing experiences,
it was found that each of them has a story to tell. It was through recounting their
stories that her passion for writing was rekindled, which was a strong feeling she
had since the age of five but was somehow not consciously nurtured.
Susanna is both a teacher of writing and a writer herself. Her first novel Mother’s
Tongue: A Story of Forgiving and Forgetting was published in 2013 in the U.S.
Now writing her next novel and two more in the pipeline, she has made a new
world for herself—a whole new world of literary creation.
Publications
Book
Mother’s Tongue: A Story of Forgiving and Forgetting, Houston: Strategic Book
Publishing and Rights.
(Book launch at HKUST, February 2014. A section of the book was read at
Singapore/the Asia Pacific Writers’ and Translators’ 7th Annual Gathering:
Bridging Cultures: Creative Writing and Literary Translation.)
Research report:
Susanna Ho (2007). Exploring writing strategies used by Accounting/Finance
majors at university and in the workplace. Research report Vol. 7. Gregory
James (Ed.). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Chapter in a book:
Susanna Ho (1997). Exploring the validity of ESL reading test items by means of
judgemental procedures. In S. Ho & S. Carmichael (Eds.) Exploring Language
(pp. 3-21). Language Center: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Conference paper published in proceedings:
Susanna Ho (1996). How do Hong Kong students demystify a written text? In C.
Zaher (Ed.), Proceedings of the Second EFL Skills Conference: New Directions
in Reading (pp. 155-162). Cairo: Dar El Kutub.
Editorial work:
Susanna Ho, & Sarah Carmichael (1997). (Eds.) Exploring Language. Hong
Kong: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Other publications:
Susanna Ho (2002). A response to the talk “How do you evaluate an SAC?”
Hong Kong Association for Self Access Language Development Newsletter 5 p.
12.
Susanna Ho (1996). Helping students become autonomous language learners.
Intensive English Programs Newsletter, TESOL 14, 1 pp. 6-7.
Conference and Seminar Presentations
Susanna Ho gave a reading of her book Mother’s Tongue: A Story of Forgiving
and Forgetting at the Asia Pacific Writers’ and Translators’ 7th Annual Gathering:
Bridging Cultures: Creative Writing and Literary Translation in Singapore on 18
July 2014.
Susanna Ho presented a paper entitled “Exploring written communication by
Accounting/Finance professionals: Implications for curriculum design” at Second
Conference of the Asia-Pacific Rim LSP and Professional Communication
Association, Languages for Specific Purposes and Professional Communication:
Collaboration and engagement, at University of Malaya, KL, Malaysia on 16 July
2010.
Susanna Ho, Eleanor Kwan and Martin Tang gave a paper entitled “The Writing
and Speaking through the Curriculum Programme: How students and faculty
members respond to it” at 5th CamTESOL Conference – The globalisation of ELT:
Emerging directions, at National Institute of Education, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
on 21 February 2009.
Susanna Ho gave a paper entitled “How well can university students write for
workplace situation?” at APacLSP 08 – Partnerships in Action: Research,
Practice and Training, at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and City University of
Hong Kong on 9 December 2008.
Susanna Ho gave a paper entitled “Adopting an interactive model of teaching
writing to postgraduate engineering students” at the Conference Responding to
change: Flexibility in the delivery of language programmes, at Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology on 8 January 2008.
Susanna Ho gave a paper entitled “Exploring writing strategies employed by
Accounting/Finance majors in the university and the workplace” at the
Conference Diversity and Community in Applied Linguistics: Interface,
Interpretation, Interdisciplinary, at Macquarie University, Sydney on 21
September 2006.