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.