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</div> </div> <div class="personbottom"> <div class="view-box addressbox"><div class="rendering rendering_person rendering_personorganisationsclassifiedaddressportal rendering_person_personorganisationsclassifiedaddressportal"><div class="subheader">Visiting address</div><div class="address"><div class="rendering rendering_classifiedaddress rendering_compactwithoutaddresstype rendering_classifiedaddress_compactwithoutaddresstype"><div class="building">CMC-M8074</div></div></div></div><div class="rendering rendering_person rendering_personorganisationscontactportal rendering_person_personorganisationscontactportal"><ul class="relations email"><li><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6d0e43050c0b03081f2d0e0419141843080918430506" class="link"><span><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8be8a5e3eaede5eef9cbe8e2fff2fea5eeeffea5e3e0">[email protected]</span></span></a></li></ul><div class="phonenumbers"><span class="property person_contact_phone"><strong>Phone: </strong>+852 34428734</span></div></div> </div> <div class="view-box author-id-box"> <h2>Author IDs</h2> <ul class="ids-list persontop-list"> <li> <span class="id_name">ORCID iD:</span> <a target="_blank" href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9592-8092"> <span class="id_value">0000-0002-9592-8092</span> </a> </li> <li> <span class="id_name">Scopus Author ID:</span> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36445006300"><span class="id_value">36445006300</span></a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="person-options"> <strong>Willing to take PhD students:</strong> yes </div> <div class="addthis_inline_share_toolbox"></div> </div> </div> <div class="col-1-1 content"> <div class="tabs-container"> <ul class="clear"> <li class="selected"><a class="portal_link" href="https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/christoph-hafner(3112dd1d-dcb1-4ddf-b74d-3a9b6d5ea60d).html"><span>Overview</span></a> </li> <li><a class="portal_link" href="https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/christoph-hafner(3112dd1d-dcb1-4ddf-b74d-3a9b6d5ea60d)/publications.html"><span>Research Output</span></a> </li> <li><a class="portal_link" href="https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/christoph-hafner(3112dd1d-dcb1-4ddf-b74d-3a9b6d5ea60d)/projects.html"><span>Projects</span></a> </li> <li><a class="portal_link" href="https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/christoph-hafner(3112dd1d-dcb1-4ddf-b74d-3a9b6d5ea60d)/activities.html"><span>Activities</span></a> </li> <li><a class="portal_link" href="https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/christoph-hafner(3112dd1d-dcb1-4ddf-b74d-3a9b6d5ea60d)/prizes.html"><span>Prizes/Honours</span></a> </li> <li><a class="portal_link" href="https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/christoph-hafner(3112dd1d-dcb1-4ddf-b74d-3a9b6d5ea60d)/theses.html"><span>Student Theses</span></a> </li> <li><a class="portal_link" href="https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/christoph-hafner(3112dd1d-dcb1-4ddf-b74d-3a9b6d5ea60d)/clippings.html"><span>Press/Media </span></a> </li> <li><a class="portal_link" href="https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/christoph-hafner(3112dd1d-dcb1-4ddf-b74d-3a9b6d5ea60d)/supervision.html"><span> Supervision </span></a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="view-box"><div class="rendering rendering_person rendering_profileinformationportalcustom rendering_person_profileinformationportalcustom"><h2 class="subheader">Biography</h2><div class="textblock"><p><span>Christoph Hafner's principal research interests include English language teaching and learning, legal English and digital literacies. In particular, he is interested in studying how new technologies can be utilised to support the development of both ‘traditional’ domain-specific literacies (e.g. English for Law), and the ‘digital literacies’ which are necessary to exploit the potential of digital media. He has co-authored a book (with Rodney H. Jones) entitled Understanding Digital Literacies: A practical introduction (Routledge, 2012). He is principal investigator in an ongoing action research project, which investigates academic literacy in the Hong Kong context (<a href="http://www1.english.cityu.edu.hk/acadlit">project website here</a>). Most recently, this project has examined university students' use of digital video to create multimedia scientific documentaries in the context of a course in English for Science. He currently teaches courses in English for Specific Purposes, Writing for New Media and Language in Law and Crime.</span></p></div><h2 class="subheader">Prizes/Honours</h2><div class="textblock"><ul><li>2013 <strong>“Teaching Excellence Award”</strong> <em>City University of Hong Kong</em>.</li></ul></div><h2 class="subheader">URLs/Links</h2><div class="textblock"><ul><li><a href="http://www1.english.cityu.edu.hk/acadlit"><span class="wordwrap Fieldlink">Academic Literacy Project</span></a></li></ul></div><h2 class="subheader">Research Interests/Areas</h2><div class="textblock"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">English for specific purposes, Language and law, Digital literacies, Multimodality, Language learning and technology</span></p></div></div> </div><script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="/resources/style/js/concept_tooltip.js?stamp=1731905518316"></script> <div class="relationlist for_person_fingerprints"> <h2 class="section for_person_fingerprints subheader"> Fingerprint </h2> <p class="portal_inline_help">Below displays the top Fingerprint concepts, per subject area for this Expert. 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