Meeting with Audit Panel, Quality Assurance Council

Meeting with Audit Panel from the Quality Assurance Council, on their visit to CUHK for the CUHK QAC Audit; meeting the Panel in capacity of one of eight recipients of teh Vice Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Awards.

Workshop on Phonics for Ying Wa Primary School

"A for Apple, and for Bad Man"; staff development workshop for the English Department, Ying Wa Primary School.

Judge, ELT Rap Lyrics Competition, ELT Rap Community, CUHK

Completed review of a manuscript for TESL Canada Journal

Conducted a phonics workshop for the English Department, Caritas Chong Yuet Ming Secondary School

This workshop is organised by the SMILE Project of the Faculty of Education, CUHK.

Reading of Venus Transiens by Amy Lowell collected in Librivox

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"Not just an English lesson": new episode of my podcast

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Paper proposal accepted for presentation at WorldCall 2008

WorldCALL 2008, CALL Bridges the World, Fukuoka, Japan, 5-8 August 2008

Paper presentation proposal submitted to AsiaTEFL conference 2008

Paper presented at the CamTESOL Conference, Feb 23, 2008

Sze, Paul. (2008). Teaching phonics through awareness raising activities. Paper presented at the 4th CamTESOL Conference on English Language Teaching "Building Bridges to the World", Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 23-24 February 2008

Completed review of a manuscript for TESL Canada Journal

"Smile": my first video on Youtube

(I am grateful to Cheng Suet Wing, who provided me with the materials (photos and audio narration) after her voluntary teaching visit to a rural area of China.)

New publication: Online collaborative writing using wikis

Sze, Paul. (2008). Online collaborative writing using wikis. The Internal TESL Journal, Vol. XIV. No.1, January 2008. http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Sze-Wikis.html/

Conducted a workshop for the Govt Primary School Section, EDB

A whole-day workshop on lesson observation for English panel chairs and APSMs at Government Primary schools. Attended by 94 teachers and 10 school heads.Organised by Govt Primary School Section, EdB

PGDP class visited and observed by Professor Miki Shibata

Professor Miki Shibata, Dept of Language and Law, Okinawa University

Dean's commendation for outstanding teaching in second term, 2006/07

Courses commended:
DEP5102A SCT English (PGDE PRIMARY FULLTIME)
DEP5102G SCT English (PGDE PRIMARY PART-TIME)
ETM6804 Listening and Speaking: Teaching and learning (MA ELT)

Manuscript for Internet TESL Journal accepted for publication

Completed review of a manuscript for Educational Research Journal

New Episode, Teachers Stories: Don't laugh at me.

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Completed review of a manuscript for Journal of Basic Education