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D-Index
50
Citations
10593
World Ranking
2753
National Ranking
34

Overview

Icy Lee is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China and has an extensive body of research focused on second language acquisition, particularly within the fields of language education and assessment. Their work primarily intersects the areas of Arts and Humanities as well as Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Education and Language and Linguistics subfields.

Their research topics cover areas such as:

  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Student Assessment and Feedback
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Reflective Practices in Education
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments

Icy Lee has contributed to the academic community through publications in several well-regarded venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Second Language Writing
  • RELC Journal
  • Assessing Writing
  • The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
  • The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching

Their recent papers reflect an engagement with topics such as written corrective feedback and teacher feedback literacy. Notable recent publications include:

  • Utility of focused/comprehensive written corrective feedback research for authentic L2 writing classrooms, 2020, Journal of Second Language Writing
  • The Development of Feedback Literacy for Writing Teachers, 2021, TESOL Quarterly
  • Research trends in L2 written corrective feedback: A bibliometric analysis of three decades of Scopus-indexed research on L2 WCF, 2022, Journal of Second Language Writing

They have collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Zhicheng Mao, Rui Yuan, Shulin Yu, Pauline Mak, and Xiaoli Su. This network of co-authors has supported research that advances understanding in areas related to language teaching and written feedback.

Their scholarly contributions navigate complex intersections between assessment practices and language pedagogy, emphasizing practical implications for teaching contexts, especially in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) settings in China.

Best Publications

  • Error correction in L2 secondary writing classrooms: The case of Hong Kong

    Icy Lee

  • Understanding teachers’ written feedback practices in Hong Kong secondary classrooms

    Icy Lee

  • Ten mismatches between teachers' beliefs and written feedback practice

    Icy Lee

  • STUDENT REACTIONS TO TEACHER FEEDBACK IN TWO HONG KONG SECONDARY CLASSROOMS

    Icy Lee

  • ESL learners' performance in error correction in writing: Some implications for teaching

    Icy Lee

  • Classroom Writing Assessment and Feedback in L2 School Contexts

    Icy Lee

  • Preparing pre-service English teachers for reflective practice

    Icy Lee

  • Peer Feedback in Second Language Writing (2005-2014).

    Shulin Yu;Icy Lee

  • L2 writing teachers' perspectives, practices and problems regarding error feedback

    Icy Lee

  • Error Correction in the L2 Writing Classroom: What Do Students Think?

    Icy Lee

  • ‘I need to be strong and competent’: A narrative inquiry of a student-teacher’s emotions and identities in teaching practicum

    Rui Yuan;Icy Lee

  • Teaching coherence to ESL students: a classroom inquiry

    Icy Lee

  • Pre-service teachers' changing beliefs in the teaching practicum: Three cases in an EFL context

    Rui Eric Yuan;Icy Lee

  • Becoming a writing teacher: Using “identity” as an analytic lens to understand EFL writing teachers’ development

    Icy Lee

  • Introducing assessment for learning for EFL writing in an assessment of learning examination-driven system in Hong Kong

    Icy Lee;David 龔大胃 Coniam

  • Writing teacher education and teacher learning: Testimonies of four EFL teachers

    Icy Lee

  • Supporting Greater Autonomy in Language Learning.

    Icy Lee

  • Feedback in Hong Kong secondary writing classrooms: Assessment for learning or assessment of learning?

    Icy Lee

  • Revisiting Teacher Feedback in EFL Writing from Sociocultural Perspectives

    Icy Lee

  • Fostering Preservice Reflection through Response Journals

    Icy Lee

  • The native speaker: myth and reality: Alan Davies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2003, 237 pp. ISBN no 1-85359-623-X

    Icy Lee

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