Started a summer course on digital storytelling for gifted students

Conducted a workshop, with, Ms Olive Cheung, on digitalstorytelling for secondary school English teachers.

An event under the ELITE Knowledge Transfer Project headed by Professor Icy Lee.

中英大不同recommended by TVB Weekly for the Book Fair

Recent interview by Sing Tao published in Smart Parents, June 30

Recent interview by Sing Tao reported in Smart Parents published in June 30

Attended the Learning and Teaching Expo 2011

From top to bottom:
- With Serene Lam of ET English (former student)
- With Susanna Cheung of Broadlearning (former student)
- Lee Fong Lok on mobile learning
- Stephen Heppell on 'Learning and Teaching in the Third Millenium'

talk on the teaching of reading and writing to young learners

Gave a talk on the teaching of reading and writing to young learners at a workshop for parents; organised by OUP. Attendance: 350

日期﹕ 2011年6月25日（星期六）
時間﹕ 下午2:30 – 4:30
地點﹕ 九龍塘達之路72號創新中心2號禮堂（港鐵九龍塘站C2出口）
講者﹕ 施敏文博士（香港中文大學教育學院高級導師）
林沛理先生（專欄作家、電台節目主持及暢銷書《英文玩家》作者）
張子暉小姐（牛津大學出版社高級英語教學組主任）

Visited the English Day, Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School

中英大不同：語法觧密by Benjamin Au Yeung and Paul Sze published

New Issue of 中英對談：讀音也隨俗

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Speaker, Seminar on Reading and Writing for Secondary English Teachers

"Becoming an Excellent Teacher of Reading and Writing"
organised by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, CUHK
June 21, 2011

Visited Tsz Wan Shan St Bonaventure Catholic Primary School ...

for observation of an eLearning Reading lesson using the programme Power Lesson.

星島《親子王》訪問

grammar drilling at learning centres.

New issue in Ming Pao Column中英對談：嬲到冇朋友

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gave a talk titled "Phonics learning: What? Why? How?" at a parents workshop organised by OUP(China); YMCA Tsimshatsui, June 11, 2011

中英對談：hope與wish: New issue in Ming Pao Column

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20110609/language03/a01.txthttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

中英對談：新詞新語在文化

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20110602/language03/a01.txt

Workshop on Reading Aloud for English Department, Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School, June 1, 2011

Workshop on Word Stress for Phonics Instruction, for English Department, Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School, May 25, 2011

Presented a paper at Challenges 2011

Attended and presented a paper at the 7th International Conference on ICT in Education held at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, (May 12-13, 2011).

Adjudicated in the OUP RWI Ambassador Programme Final Competition, with Mr Ronny Tong and Dr Richard Wong.

Workshop on "English Phonemes for Phonics Instruction", for English Department, Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School, April 27, 2011

中英對談：否定問句

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20110414/language03/a01.txt

Invited Ms Susanna Cheung, a graduate from the B.Ed (Lang Ed) programme to give a workshop on PowerLesson

Date: April 21, 2011
Workshop for student teachers on ELED4980: Computer Assisted Language Learning

中英對談：禮貌提問

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20110407/language03/a01.txt

中英對談：名詞化

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20110331/language03/a01.txt

Presented at the 45th TESOL Convention in New Orleans, March 19, 2011

Pronunciation improvement as a by-product of synthetic phonics instruction

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New Issue of 中英對談 in Ming Pao：詞意理解與溝通

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20110310/language03/a01.txt

Taught a try-out lesson at Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School

Class: P.2A
Purpose: To try out a reading comprehension lesson that incorporates a phonics element.

New Issue of 中英對談 in Ming Pao：詞意理解與溝通

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20110303/language03/a01.txt

New issue of Ming Pao column: 中英對談：中英點菜

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20110224/language03/a01.txt

Completed review of a manuscript for e-FLT -- Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching

New Issue of 中英對談：快讀音變

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20110217/language03/a01.txt

New Issue in Ming Pao column: 中英對談：修飾詞過濫

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20110127/language03/a01.txt

New Issue in Ming Pao column: 中英對談：告示標語

http://life.mingpao.com/cfm/language3.cfm?File=20110120/language03/a01.txt

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

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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"