This annual award amounting to HK$2,500 is made in Fawzia's memory to a novice scholar (postgraduate student or a recent graduate) of a university in Hong Kong for a journal article published in an international refereed journal in applied linguistics.
Ten entries were received this year, from students at five Hong Kong universities.
The winner is Feng Teng of Hong Kong Baptist University for an article titled "Immediate and delayed effects of embedded metacognitive instruction on Chinese EFL students’ English writing and regulation of cognition" in the journal Thinking Skills and Creativity.
