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BA (Hons) in Contemporary English Studies : Final Year Project

This series contains undergraduate dissertations of BA (Hons) in Contemporary English Studies as approved by Lingnan University. (Access restricted within Lingnan University (Hong Kong) campus only)

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FYP 2025 2025

I can resist everything except desire : revisiting l'écriture féminine with Oscar Wilde's Salomé

Investigating the relationship between the home environment and the spoken English of primary school students in Hong Kong

FYP 2024 2024

From compulsory motherhood to compulsory contraception : a comparative analysis on The Handmaid’s Tale and Brave New World

Race and power in colonial literature : Somerset Maugham’s The Force of Circumstance and The Yellow Streak

FYP 2023 2023

A comparative analysis of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Twelve Years a Slave : rebellion, feminine character, and Christianity

Free to be dominated : ideological dominion of the subject in dystopian fiction

Goddess, princess or witch : variation of Hua Mulan in Disney film adaptations

Multimodality in localized memes : online identity construction of Hong Kong university students

FYP 2022 2022

A comparison between the role of local ethnic minorities’ mother tongues and English in shaping their identity

Editing is an improvement and a detriment : a comparative analysis of "What we talk about when we talk about love" and "Beginners"

From outrage to outrage : matrimony and Irish nationalism in James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922)

Multimodality and humor in danmu

New possibilities brought by "Purple" : reintegrating womanism into contemporary feminist discourse

The impacts of the generalization of e-learning tools in Hong Kong ESL classrooms

FYP 2021 2021

A critical discourse analysis of Trump’s political speeches on immigration

Exploration of womanist issues in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks and Maya Angelou : a comparative analysis

Perceptions and experiences of local EMs regarding their English language ability

FYP 2020 2020

A post-postmodern director : new sincerity and Wes Anderson’s films

Decoding death in children’s literature through the Harry Potter series

Exploration of identity and border : the trajectory of hybridity in Margiad Evans’s Country dance (1932) and Raymond Williams’s Border country (1960)

The meaning of artifacts : a cross-cultural study of food, clothing and architecture

The metamorphosis : competing spaces of psychoanalytic criticism

FYP 2019 2019

Error correction in the acquisition of L2 writing : a causal-comparative text analysis of Hong Kong junior secondary school students' ESL writing

Exploration of womanhood through literature and television adaptations : extended metaphors in The handmaid's tale and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Unhappy the land that has no heroes? Heroes and role models for our times

FYP 2018 2018

An evaluation of the HKDSE Paper 4 (Speaking) assessment guidelines : English teachers’ views and other considerations

Does Edna succeed in attaining a solitary soul? The search for women’s autonomy and first-wave feminism in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899)

FYP 2017 2017

Eliminating "Blues on Yellow" : "Racial MeIancholia", "Chineseness", "Model Minority Myth and Intergenerational Relationship", and "Gender" in Eddie Huang's "Fresh off the Boat: A Memoir"(2013), Yang and Pham's "Level up" (2011) and Margaret Cho's "I'm the one that I want" (2000)

Exploring Female Agency and Female Consciousness in Popular Culture

FYP 2016 2016

Differences between the Principles and Practice of Task-based Language Teaching in Hong Kong's New Senior Secondary English Curriculum: Learning English through Poems and Songs

Forcing the Moment to its Crisis: "Rooms" and "Views" in T.S. Eliot’s "The Lovesong o f J, Alfred Prufrock" (1920), E.M. Forsters' "A Room With a View" (1908) and Kazuo Ishiguro's " "The Remains of the Day" (1989)

Multilingual text-making practices in Whatsapp messaging : A case study of three teenagers in Hong Kong

Untangling perception and reality : a quali-quantitative study of perception, linguistic judgements and identity functions of English accents in Hong Kong

FYP 2015 2015

Overcoming the genre bias against science fiction : the multi-layered Ender's Game and its allegorical implications

FYP 2014 2014

Historical wounds and hope : a study in how historical events and trauma impacts gender in four fictions : Memoirs of a Geisha, The World of Suzie Wong, Farewell my concubine & M. butterfly

Inspiration from my year of meats : Japanese housewife feminism and its reflection in manga

FYP 2013 2013

Bildung, its moral implication in The History Boys and Dead Poets Society and its relation to the present-day Hong Kong (and global) educational context

English learning anxiety In Lingnan University: an investigation of the pervasiveness and sources of anxiety in English learning

Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights in 1930s and 2011 beyond: a study of production values, approaches and creative ideas in Bronte film adaptations

FYP 2012 2012

The bond between nature and man: relevance of Wang Wei's and William Wordsworth's nature poetry as the remedy of man/nature dualism

FYP 2011 2011

The modern heroines : an analysis of the representation of Nora and Julie

FYP 2010 2010

A study of Hitchcockian adaptation : based on Daphine Du Maurier's fictions - Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, the Birds

A study of intra-speaker stylistic variation in Hong Kong English

Discrimination and elimination: transgression in Jeanette Winterson's novels

Melanie's grace : an epistolary understanding

Rarely pure and never simple: daemons and dust In Philip Pullman's his dark materials

FYP 2009 2009

A walk of meaning with Alice: aspects of philosophy of language in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and through the looking glass

Cantonese-English code-mixing and the Hong Kong English accent

Ha Jin's depiction of China : breaking the slicence

FYP 2008 2008

A study of language play in headlines in South China Morning Post

Defining Oscar Wilde from The Picture of Dorian Gray

From a sad beginning to a happy ending : transformation of the children in the secret garden

Language variation within a Yorkshire family

What makes a competent ESL learner? an exploration into the factors that lead local English teachers with a high level of English proficiency

FYP 2007 2007

A comparative analysis of gender representation in American advertisements in the 1960s and the last decade

Child of God: admonition to non-believers and fake believers in the short stories of Flannery O'connor

General stylistic analysis of the lemony snicket novels in relation to double readership

In defence of the wicked women in fairy tales : creative and analytical writing

Literary and dramatic adaptation study of Bohemianism

Marriage made in heaven? a television pilot script inspired by and based on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

FYP 2006 2006

A tragic play : Death of a Housewife

Distance : an example of the family drama sub-genre

Moral duty and earthly pleasure : Jane Eyre and the ambivalence of romance

The adventures of Ah Mou and others

The comic world of Charlie Chaplin

The corporate image of the Hong Kong society for rehabilitation

FYP 2005 2005

Ambiguity as a resource of jokes

Dyslexia in Hong Kong : problems and solutions

Hong Kong secondary school students' attitudes to and awareness of British and American accents

Students' awareness of using the past and present perfect tense

Subversion of Victorian values in Wilde's comedies

The subversive fantasies of Roald Dahl : The BFG, The Witches and Matilda

Waiting for godot in experimental theatre

FYP 2004 2004

Beyond the mind's eye : transforming a play-script on a page to a live performance on stage- a discussion on the Woman in Black and Richard III

Cultures of learning among Hong Kong tertiary students: how 'chinese' are they?

Essence of extended phenomenalistic metaphor in the imaginary world of literature

Hong Kong students' awareness of tense-time relationships: the present simple and future time

Newspapers coverage on SARS issues: case studies of media language

Rise and fall in the hierarchical worlds: a comparative study of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire

The factors that contribute to low English proficiency levels among tertiary school's students in Hong Kong: a case study in Lingnan University

FYP 2003 2003

An adaptation of the myth narcissus & echo

Code mixing is not the sole property for the bilinguals but it also applies to the monolingual speakers in Hong Kong

Earnest in Lingnan : a production portfolio

Folk transcription and the pronunciation of Hong Kong English

The value of using english songs in Hong Kong primary EFL classrooms

Treasures of mankind : the secret gardens of Hong Kong

FYP 2002 2002

Color collocations in English and Chinese idioms

Communication patterns in collective speech communities: a study of Hong Kong Chinese and Taiwanese

Phonemic awareness: its pedagogic significance in improving Hong Kong children's reading ability

Plain english, the Basic Law, and the Sino-British Joint Declaration

Stress and pitch of Hong Kong English

The differential use of signifying devices in a film, a play & a novel

The metamorphosis-a play directed by Au, Simon