Dean's commendation on all 4 courses taught last year

Module 4 of the Professional Development Programme for Macao begins this Saturday

Professional Development programme for members of the Core Teachers Scheme of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, Macao SAR
Module 4: Planning the school-based English Language curriculum

Presentation with Prof Icy Lee at the ESF Professional Development Day

'Digital Storytelling: What's in it for students? And teachers?'
Presented at the Professional Development Day of the English Schools Foundation (ESF).
Attended by 70+ English teachers from ESF secondary schools.

Principal writer of the Teacher's Book

Book 1 of a new coursebook series in China published

First book of a new coursebook series in China, of which I am a member of the writing team, has been published. The writing team is based at the Guangzhou Education Bureau. This new coursebook series is in support of the 2011 National English Curriulum for Schools. The sample coursebooks have been approved by the Ministry of Education in Beijing. The first book (for Primary 3, first term) has been published and is currently being used by 140,000 P3 children in GZ (this is the official coursebook). When the whole series is completed, it will be used by over 1 million schoolchildren in China!

Attended PGDE graduation ceremony

Sept 1: Started a consultancy for Sacred Heart Canossian School

on the teaching of Speaking at P4 and P5 levels; funded by Education Bureau's English Enhancement Grant

May 31, 2012: Attended Graduation Ceremony, BA(English)+B.Ed.

May 31, 2012: Completed a school-based consultancy on synthetic phonics

Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School, a two-year project funded by Education Bureau's English Enhancement Grant.

Second co-authored book 中英大不同2 on sale at Hong Kong Book Fair 2012

 《中英大不同2: 錯了就爆的語法問題》
歐陽偉豪, 施敏文
青桐社; 2012.7

Talk for Hong Kong Book Fair 2012

With Dr Benjamin Au Yeung
At Harbour City
July 14, 2012; 1600-1645
"Is this Cantonese or English: Features of Hong Kong language"
A talk for Hong Kong Book Fair 2012

Guest of honour, Graduation Ceremony, Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School

Reviewed a manuscript on CALL for the Asian Journal of English for Specific Purposes

Presentation: 'What has DST got to do with creative writing?"

at the seminar on "Creative Writing and Digital Storytelling" for secondary school English Language teachers. Other speakers: Icy Lee, Judy Keung, and teachers from Methodist College and United Christian College.

Gave a talk on synthetic phonics at a seminar for primary English Language teachers

.. seminar organised by the Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, CUHK.

Other speakers:
Ms Adeline Cheung, OUP China

From Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School
- Ms Charlotte Lee
- Ms Betty Lee
- Mr Timothy King

From Alliance Primary School, Kowloon Tong
- Ms Charlotte Lo
- Ms Karin Zhoc
- Ms Shona Reid
- Ms Beverly Yeung

Visited Nan Gang Primary School in Foshan and gave a presentation

Visited Nan Gang Primary School in Foshan, met with the principal and members of the English Department, and observed a P.3 lesson. Gave a presentation on computer-assisted reading comprehension.

Gave a talk on reading and writing at a seminar for parents ...

... for parents with children in primary school; seminar organised by OUP(China). (June 25, 2012)

Paper presentation at the 2nd International Conference on the Future of Education

 Sze, P. (2012). Renewing vocation for English Language teaching through podcasting and digital storytelling. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on The Future of Education (Florence, Italy, June 7-8, 2012).

Presented a paper at LIROD 2012 in Bangkok

Sze, Paul. (2012) An emerging orthography for mixed code in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 4th Language in the Realm of Social Dynamics International Conference (May 3-4, 2012; The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand).

April 28: Presented a paper at the 2nd Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom

conference held in Osaka, Japan.