Seminars & Workshops 2012-2013
Professional Development Seminar: Making feedback work: Issues in assessment and course design
By Phil Smyth
Date: 8 May 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Venue: Rm 6.66, 6/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
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Research Seminar: Scaffolding the Novice Academic Writer from both “Top-down” and “Bottom-up”
By Angel Lin & Luna Cai
Date: 17 April 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Venue: Rm 6.66, 6/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
Virtual Professional Development Seminar: Vocabulary for special purposes
By Paul Nation
Date: 27 March 2013
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Venue: Rm 6.66, 6/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
Research Seminar: Critical Genre Theory: Implications for discursive performance in ESP
By Vijay Bhatia
Date: 13 March 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Venue: Rm 6.66, 6/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
Research Seminar: Egg tarts and chocolate fish: Food and culture in workplace talk
By Meredith Marra
Date: 25 February 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Venue: Rm 6.66, 6/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
Research Seminar: Maneuvering the moat between language learning and subject matter study – bridges or boats?
By Theodore Rodgers
Date: 20 February 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Venue: Rm 6.66, 6/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
Professional Development Seminar: Enhancing the Use of English: What the ETAs do and how they can help your students
By David Gardner and the ETAs (Ken Li, Athena Loch, Paul Martin, Jason Petsch)
Date: 30 January 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Venue: Rm 6.66, 6/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
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Professional Development Seminar: Writing a Winning Teaching Development Grant Proposal
By David Gardner, Ken Lau and Miranda Legg
Date: 12 December 2012
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Venue: Rm 6.66, 6/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
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Professional Development Seminar: Moving towards Appropriate Writing Tasks and Rubrics for Academic English Assessment
By Jane Lockwood and Liz Hamp-Lyons, together with the DELTA Team
Date: 5 December 2012
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Venue: CPD 2.58
Research Seminar: Teaching Research Article Writing Collaboratively via Genre Analysis and Corpus Linguistics: Transferable Outcomes for Thesis Writing and Career Development
By Margart Cargill
Date: 3 December 2012
Time: 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Venue: Rm 6.66, 6/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
Research Seminar: Corpus-based Research and Pedagogy in ESP: From Lexis to Genre
By Lynne Flowerdew
Date: 28 November 2012
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Venue: Rm 6.66, 6/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
Professional Development Workshop: Moving Forward with Moodle
By Patrick Desloge, Steve Roberts and Rebecca Welland
Date: 21 November 2012
Time: 1:00-2:30p.m.
Venue: MMC-1 (Rm 6.31) & MMC-2 (Rm 6.32), 6/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
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Professional Development Sharing Session: Out-of-class Learning Materials (2)
By the OoCL Team, Jane Stokes & Rebecca Welland
Date: 14 November 2012
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Venue: MMLC-A & MMLC-B, 2/F, Main Library Old Wing
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Professional Development Sharing Session: Out-of-class Learning Materials (1)
By the OoCL Team (Ashley Hazell, Carly Ng, Gloria Wong, Kevin Yung)
Date: 31 October 2012
Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Venue: Rm 6.31 (MMC-1), 6/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
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Research Seminar: Being a Multilingual – A Blessing or a Curse?
By Wai Lan Tsang
Date: 24 October 2012
Time: 1:00-2:00p.m.
Venue: Rm 6.66, 6/F, Run Run Shaw Tower
