New Issue of 中英對談：「The Below Gifts」？

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20110113/language03/a01.txt

Organised a subject seminar on the teaching of reading and writing for primary school English teachers

"Achieving Excellence in the Teaching of Reading and Writing",

Awarded a Course Development Grant by the CUHK Academic IT Steering Committee

Awarded a Course Development Grant by the CUHK Academic IT Steering Committee for the project “Mastering the Subject Knowledge and Skills for Effective Synthetic Phonics Instruction”.

MA ELT Graduation Ceremony, December 18, 2010

Interviewed by Prof Birgitte Holm Sorensen and Prof Bente Meyer from Aarhus University, Denmark

on ICT in primary English language teaching in Hong Kong

Readaloud of "I have no enemies; My final statement" posted on Podomatic

Attended the Graduation Ceremony, Chung Chi College, CUHK

中英對談：中英相會在廣告: New Issue of Mingpao column

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20101216/language03/a01.txt

Participated in the Routledge Education Focus Group discussion

Paper presentation at the 4th CLS International Conference in Singapore

"Catering for Affect in Language Learning through Digital Storytelling"

Paper presented at the 4h CLS International Conference: Individual Characteristics and Subjective Variables in Language Learning, Singapore, 2-4 December 2010.

New Issue of Bilingual Facebook in Ming Pao published.

中英對談：再談of與
http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20101125/language03/a01.txt

Conducted a workshop for the English department, Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Primary School

Topic: "Correct pronunciation, accents, and intelligibility"

Appointed Academic Editor, Asian English for Specific Purposes Journal

New Issue in Ming Pao: 中英對談：Abbreviations

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20101118/language03/a01.txt

New issue of Ming Pao column: No 搞？

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20101111/language03/a01.txt

New issue of Ming Pao column: 語氣助詞及語調

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20101028/language03/a01.txt

Interviewed by iKid Magazine

Interviewed, together with the Principal, staff, and students at Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School, by parents' magazine iKid, on synthetic phonics and its implementation at the school.

Presentation at the CUHK Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo 2010

Joint presentation with Olive Cheung at the CUHK Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo 2010: Promoting creativity and reflection through digital storytelling.

Workshop for Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School

Workshop for the English Department, Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School: Phonics: What and Why? October 13, 2010.

New Issue in Ming Pao: 中英對談：兄弟姐妹

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20100916/language03/a01.txt

Dean's Commendation on Outstanding Teaching of All Courses Taught in the Second Term, 2009/2010

中英對談：從語言學角度看「撐粵語運動」

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20100909/language03/a01.txt

Press conference on RWI Ambassadors Scheme

Media briefing, together with Legislative Councillor Mr Ronny Tong, and Dr Richard Wong of HKIEd, on the RWI Ambassadors Scheme.

New episode on Teachers' Stories: From teaching to teacher development

Talk on "Synthetic Phonics: Why" for Parents Workshop organised by OUP

Completed review of a manuscript for Journal of Asian English for Specific Purposes

Completed an IPA course for gifted students

15-hour IPA course for gifted S1 and S2 students; the course was run by the Programme for the Gifted and Talented, CUHK.

Presenation: “eLearning Pedagogies for the English Language Curriculum”

Workshop: “eLearning Pedagogies for the English Language Curriculum”; Learning and Teaching Expo; HKEdCity; July 16, 2010.

Subject Seminar: Promoting Collaborative eLearning in the Primary English Curriculum

Subject seminar: “Promoting Collaborative eLearning in the Primary English curriculum through Web 2.0 activities” (with Ms Janet Law, Ms Clare Wong, Ms Peggy Yau, Ms Bess Wong); June 26, 2010; organised by the Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, CUHK.

Conference presentation in Aix-en-Provence, France

Sze, Paul. (2010). Digital storytelling for teachers' professional development. Paper presented at the 2010 Euro-American Conference for Academic Disciplines, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 8-11, 2010.

Conducted the last session for Learning Circle for English Language

Conducted the last session for Learning Circle for English Language teaching (2009-10), organised by the Tuen Mun Regional Educational Office.

Presented a paper at MICELT 2010 in Melaka, Malaysia.

Sze, Paul. (2010). Preparing ESL teachers for using digital storytelling in English Language teaching. Paper presented at the 8th Malaysia International Conference on English Language Teaching, May 11-13, 2010; Melaka, Malaysia.

panel discussion by former recipients of VC's exemplary teaching award

Presentation: Participation in a Video-recorded panel discussion by former recipients of VC’s Exemplary Teaching Award on teaching, organized by CLEAR for the production of an experience sharing DVD for distribution among CUHK’s teaching staff.

Presented two symposia at CITE 2010

Presented two symposia at CITE Research Symposium 2010, University of Hong Kong, March 3, 2010:

(1) Personalising English language teaching in secondary schools through technology (with Jenny Yeung and Armstrong Wong)
(2) Wikis and blogs for collaborative English language learning activities for primary school students (with Peggy Yau, Bess Wong, and Clare Wong)

Presented a paper at CamTESOL 2010

Sze, Paul. (2010). Synthetic phonics for EFL learners? Paper presented at the 6th Annual CamTESOL Conference on English Language Teaching , 27-28 February 2010, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Attended OUP's Launch of the Book "China's Thirty Years"

Conducted Workshop 2 for EDB's Tuen Mun Learning Circle

Conducted the first session of Learning Circle for EDB Tuen Mun Regional Office

The Learning Circle is convened by the EDB Tuen Mun Regional Office, for the professional development of primary school teachers of English in the district. Ten schools have taken part in the Learning Circle, with two teachers coming from each school. The Learning Circle involves peer lesson observation. The focus for the first round of observations is questioning techniques.

Ming Pao column (Bilingual Facebook): Issue 2

How to say unlike, unfriend, etc., in Chinese

Published the first episode of my Teachers' Stories podcast on the CUHK Podcasting platform.

http://podcast.cuhk.edu.hk/teacherstory/

Department lunchtime Seminar: Storytelling as Pedagogy?

My poster at CUHK Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo 2009 received "Commendation" from Organising Committee

Presented a poster, titled “Spice up your teaching with digital stories” at the CUHK Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo 2009.

Conducted a workshop on digital storytelling ...

for the English Department, Sacred Heart Canossian Primary School.

Dean's commendation on outstanding teaching

Second Term, 2008-09:

DEP5102A: Subject curriculum and teaching (English)
ETM6804: Listening and Speaking: Teaching and Learning

Uploaded "How I Taught Myself Phonics" to YouTube

Speaker: OUP Synthetic Phonics Workshop for Parents

(Aug 26) Conducted the second part of the workshop on digital storytelling

New episode posted on Teachers' Stories: Silent Gratitude

New episode posted on Teachers' Stories: Silent Gratitude

http://paulsze.podomatic.com/entry/2009-08-23T07_18_12-07_00

Conducted Part One of a workshop on digital storytelling

http://digitalstorytellerpaul.wikispaces.com

New episode posted on Teachers' Stories

Slidecast on Synthetic Phonics uploaded to Slideshare

Synthetic Phonics for ESL Children in Hong Kong

View more presentations from paulsze.

Interviewed by Hong Kong Daily News on learning of English by young children in HK

Presented a poster at ED-MEDIA 2009

Presented a poster at the 2009 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 22-26, 2009.

Submitted a paper proposal to GloCALL 2009

GloCALl 2009: The Globalisation and Localisation in Computer-assisted Language Learning Conference 2009

Presented at a media briefing the results of the first study in Asia of the effectiveness of synthetic phonics for ESL school children.

Reviewed a manuscript for New Horizons in Education

Interview with U Magazine published in issue of 5 June 2009

Paper presented at the European Conference for Academic Disciplines

European Conference for Academic Disciplines, June 1-4, Bad Hogastein, Salzburg. Paper: "Effectiveness of synthetic phonics for schoolchildren in Hong Kong: An exploratory study".

New episode on my podcast: Every lesson is a new lesson

http://paulsze.podomatic.com/entry/2009-05-13T21_49_40-07_00

Interviewed by U Magazine on phonics learning in Hong Kong

Adviser, Peer Lesson Observation Day (English) at Canossa Primary School (May 13)

Speaker, ELT Seminar for Primary and KG Principals and Teachers

Topic: The teaching and learning of phonics in Hong Kong, and the promises of Synthetics Phonics

Organised by Oxford University Press (China); Number of attendees: 230

Paper proposal accepted for presentation at the Conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences

Conference of the International Journal Arts and Sciences, June 1-4, Salzburg, Austria.
My paper: "Synthetic phonics for ESL children in Hong Kong: An explorative study"

Received the Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2007-08 ...

... at the Faculty Dean's Honours List cum Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2007-08 Award Presentation Ceremony, March 14, 2009.

Paper proposal accepted for presentation at ED-MEDIA 2009

ED-MEDIA 2009--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications to be held in Honolulu, HI, USA, June 22-26, 2009.

http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/

Faculty representative on work group on interactive classrooms

Faculty representative on a work group convened by Prof. Billy So, to explore establishing interactive classrooms in new teaching blocks on campus.

Appointed a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the University College of the Cayman Islands

Conducted a workshop for the English Dept., Caritas Fanling Chan Chun Ha Secondary School

topic of workshop: Phonics teaching: What's in it for me?

Honorary Curriculum Consultant, Programs for the Gifted and Talented, CUHK

(From Jan, 2009 to December 2010)

Presented a paper at the 13th International Conference on English in Southeast Asia; held in Singapore

Sze, Paul. (2008). Hong Kong students’ awareness of Cantonised pronunciation of English. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on English in Southeast Asia: Englishes and Literatures-in-English in a Globalised World; Singapore, December 4-6, 2008.

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), UK

The Royal Society of Arts

Appointed Consultant by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau of Macau SAR

Appointed by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau of the Government of Macau SAR as Consultant to an expert group for drafting a curriculum framework and the attainment targets for English Education for the Macau school system.

New book chapter published in Processes and Process-orientation in Foreign Language Teaching

Sze, Paul. (2008). An online peer lesson observation platform for English language teachers in Hong Kong. In W.M. Chan, K.N. Chin, M. Nagami, & T. Suthiwan (Eds.), Processes and process-orientation in foreign language teaching (pp. 193-209). Singapore: Centre for Language Studies, National University of Singapore.

The Third HKPISA Report published

Co-investigator in Third Hong Kong PISA Study (Principal investigator: Professor Esther Ho)

New book chapter published in "Developing Teachers and Developing Schools in Changing Contexts"

Sze, Paul. (2008). Nurturing teacher leadership qualities through computer conferencing: A study of teachers’ online interaction patterns. In J.C.K. Lee & L.P. Shiu (Eds.), Developing teachers and developing schools in changing contexts (pp. 419-436). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.

Attended a HAAL Seminar

Seminar "Our Words of their Words?", by John Milton, HKUST; seminar organised by the Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics.

Guided Gareth Chan to produce a digital story

Gareth Chan is a boy studying Grade 3. He recently had a trip to Tung Chung with his family, and two visitors from England. Gareth took some photos during the trip, and wrote it up in his blog. I guided him to produce a digital story based on the photos and the blog entry, using Windows Movie Maker. This experience confirmed for me that even a Primary 3 student may have enough I.T. competence to produce digital stories.

Poster for eLearning Expo 2008 published in Carnegie Commons

My poster titled "Wikis for Professional Sharing"
http://www.cfkeep.org/users/13298/wikis for professional sharing
Carnegie Commons:
http://commons.carnegiefoundation.org/

Poster presentation at eLearning EXPO: Excellence Online 2008:

Wikis for Professional Sharing”;
Expo Organised by CLEAR and ITSC of CUHK; 17/10/2008.
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/eLearning/expo/Abstracts.pdf

Book chapter to be included in "Accomplishment and Challenges of Hong Kong Basic Education"

Cecilia Ka Wai CHUN, Paul SZE, & Sui Chu HO. "Reading Habits, Reading Attitude and Reading Performance", chapter to be included in the book "Accomplishment and Challenges of Hong Kong Basic Education" to be published by CU Press.

Member (Institutional Representative), LPATE, Subject Committee, HKEAA

Poster proposal accepted for eLearning Expo 2008, CUHK

Poster title: Wikis for professional sharing
CUHK eLearning Expo, October 17, 2008.
Poster presentation: 12:30 to 2:00 pm

Member, EDB Focus Group (Primary English) 2008-09 for Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Attended the PGDE 2007-08 Graduation Ceremony

Conducted pre-test for Hong Kong synthetic phonics study at HKBCPS

Hong Kong Baptist Convention Primary School: 5 Primary One classes

Paper proposal accepted for presentation at ESEA Conference

ESEA, 2008: Englishes and Literatures-in-English in a Globalised World, 4-6 December 2008, National Institute of Education, Singapore. http://www.ell.nie.edu.sg/esea2008/ESEAhome.html

The magical power of encouragement: The latest story on my Teachers' Stories podcast

Completed review of a manuscript for TESL Canada

My CLaSIC 2006 paper to be published in the book "Process and Process-orientation in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning",

New episode on my podcast: Mandy has no rights to be loved

Two papers published in "Curriculum and Instruction: The Journey of Research and Practice"

Sze, Paul. (2008). Awareness raising activities for tackling individual differences in phonics learning at pre-intermediate level. In P.K, Fok et al. (Eds.), Curriculum and instruction: the Journey of research and practice (pp. 391-401). Chongqing, China: University of Chongqing Press. (2008.8)

Chun, K.W. & Sze, Paul. (2008). First language reading literacy assessment in PISA and second language reading curriculum and instruction in Hong Kong. In P.K, Fok et al. (Eds.), Curriculum and instruction: the Journey of research and practice (pp. 364-382). Chongqing, China: University of Chongqing Press. (2008.8)

My wiki on using wikis in ELT created

http://wikianPaul.wikispaces.com/

New episode on my podcast: The power of teachers' words

My podcast listed on Podcast Alley

My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-3f56b6e6cdcd1bb80de247008a5509e6}

New episode on my podcast: The Gift

The Gift

Completed review of a manuscript for Education Journal

Read-aloud of 'the Pulley' collected in Librivox

The Pulley, by George Herbert

Librivox Weekly Poetry.

To listen:
http://librivox.org/the-pulley-by-george-herbert/

Paper Proposal for ESEA Conference

Paper proposal submitted to the 13th International Conference on English in Southeast Asia, Singapore December 4-6, 2008:


http://www.ell.nie.edu.sg/esea2008/ESEAhome.html