Ryan Ka Yau Lai (黎嘉祐, he/him)
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Ryan Ka Yau Lai (黎嘉祐, he/him)
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Asst prof @universityofga.bsky.social, PhD grad @ucsbling.bsky.social. I study how we use grammar in everyday life. Made in 🇭🇰
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June 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
US states by whether I know the Chinese transliteration of the name, inspired by a conversation with @sidneygjwong.bsky.social
A map of the US colour-coded by whether I know the name of the state/territory in Chinese: I know the name organically (WA, OR, NV, CA, UT, AZ, AK, CO, NM, TX, LA, MN, WI, IL, IN, MI, OH, PA, NY, NJ, MD, DC, VA, NC, GA, FL, Guam), I know the name because I looked it up at some point (WY, KS, AL, PR), I know the name because of an associated entity (like MIT, KFC, North Carolina, etc.) (KY, WV, MA, MS, SC), and I don't know the name at all (MT, ID, ND, SD, NE, IA, MO, OK, AR, TN, ME, VT, CT, NH, RI, Virgin Islands, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands)
February 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A problem with combining gateway classes is the reusability paradox: The more contexts educational materials can be used for, the less effective it is. There is an efficiency-effectiveness tradeoff that can't be ignored; the boost in efficiency must be weighted against the loss in effectiveness.
“A lot of great ideas have been brought forward about ways to create efficiencies by doing things like combining some gateway classes, leveraging our amazing Early College Experience program, reaching out to high schools, creating summer programs, and increasing that pipeline of students into different degrees,” Anne D’Alleva, UConn’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, told the University Senate on Monday.
December 7, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Journals after you publish something on Construction Grammar:
An email message: Dear Dr. Lai, We are pleased to inform you that Construction Materials has officially been indexed in Scopus! And the journal's real-time CiteScore has risen to 2.9 (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101240286). Previously, we invited you to submit a paper to Construction Materials. We understand that you may have been busy and might not have received our previous email. Could you please let us know if you have any plans for submission? We would be pleased to offer you a 100% discount to support your publication. You may find more details about Construction Materials at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/constrmater
November 21, 2024 at 9:08 AM
UK academia:
Four doors in a corridor, the first three say humanities, social sciences and mathematics with a stream of blood coming out of them, the Grim Reaper is knocking on the fourth and final door labelled Natural Sciences
November 18, 2024 at 8:08 PM
I don't know the legal stuff, but from a ling angle, Pennycook (1998) contains a great section on how the plagiarim rule enforcement is inseparable from deficit views of Chinese learners. I graduated from the faculty in question in the '10s; instructions along those same lines remained in place.
I have written at some length elsewhere (1996a) about the relationship between Western understandings of Chinese learning and problematically uncompromizing accusations of plagiarism. From within such colonial constructs of our memorizing students, it is easy to see alternative learning practices and relationships to text as little more than backward, outmoded learning strategies. Once the students’ authorial creativity is questioned and once they are positioned within these discourses of cultural derogation, students are treated as potential or actual criminals, with large warning signs posted around their assignments to make clear what the law is. ‘If you copy other writers’ words,’ teaching materials for first year Arts Faculty students at Hong Kong University warn, ‘pretending they are your own, you are engaging in what is known as plagiarism. If you plagiarise in this way, you are guilty of intellectual dishonesty. You will be penalised heavily for this. Take care to avoid it, the
January 3, 2024 at 12:42 AM