Fawzia Braine Memorial Award - Third Year

The Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics (HAAL) is pleased to announce that this year (2014-15), Mr. Kevin Yung Wai Ho, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong, received the Fawzia Braine Memorial Award. It was unanimously decided by the selection panel that Mr Yung’s paper, entitled “Learning English in the shadows: Understanding Chinese learners’ experiences of private tutoring” (2014, TESOL Quarterly), touches on an intriguing topic and contributes new knowledge to English language education especially in Hong Kong.

With Prof. Carmen Lee, President of HAAL, at the award ceremony on 28 May, 2015

Financial Aid - In Fawzia's Memory

Fathima Shaziya

Miss Shaziya, a Malay student from Hambantota, in Sri Lanka's deep south, has been selected to enter the University in Jaffna, in the far north, for a degree in Physical Science. At school, she studied in the Tamil medium, hence Jaffna.

She appealed for financial assistance to the Rupee Fund, which supports Malay students. In her appeal, she stated that her father was struggling to support her her because he only did "odd labor jobs". At the request of the Malay Fund, Rs. 25,000 was awarded in Fawzia's memory to Miss Shaziya to support her studies.

For a female student from a modest background in Hambantota to enter university in the sciences is a rare accomplishment. Miss Shaziya plans to major in Mathematics and follow an Honors degree. We wish her all the best.