By David Barton

Date: 9 May 2012
Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Venue: KK605

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Professional Development Workshop: Creating Self-learning Tasks with Moodle

By CUE team, IT team & Peter Voller

Date: 2 May 2012
Time: 11:00a.m.-12:30p.m.
Venue: MMLC-A

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Research Seminar: Novices’ Textual Borrowing in Scientific Writing: What Supervisors Think and How They Eliminate It in Re-drafting

By Yongyan Li

Date: 18 April 2012
Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Venue: KK605

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Professional Development Workshop: Are We Working Smart?

Facilitated by Lillian Wong 

Date: 11 April 2012
Time: 11:00 a.m.-12:30p.m.
Venue: MMLC-A

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Research Seminar: Language and Globalization: Some Implications for Language Policy

By James Tollefson

Date: 21 March 2012
Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Venue: KK605

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Professional Development Workshop: Empowering Learners through Social Media: Facebook, Moodle, and Podcasts

By Ashley Hazell and Nicole Tavares

Date: 7 March 2012
Time: 11:00a.m.-12:30p.m.
Venue: RM 101 Runme Shaw Building

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Professional Development Workshop: An Introductory Workshop on Corpus and Concordancing in English Teaching and Learning

By Lisa Cheung and Polly Tse

Date: 5 March 2012
Time: 11:00a.m.-12:30p.m.
Venue: MMLC B

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Research Seminar: What Makes Out-of-class Learning Possible and Sustainable?

By Andy Gao

Date: 22 February 2012
Time: 12:00-1:00p.m.
Venue: KK605

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Professional Development Workshop: Developing relevant course level standards to support ‘English in the Disciplines’

By Gayle Morris

Date: 8 February 2012
Time: 11:00a.m.-12:30p.m.
Venue: KK605

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Professional Development Seminar: Application for Grants: Proposal Writing and Ethics Clearance

By David Gardner, Agnes Lam and Yvonne Loong

Date: 23 November 2011
Time: 12:00-1:00p.m.
Venue: KK605

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Professional Development Virtual Seminar: Action research: Paradigm, Process and Practice

By  Anne Burns

Date: 16 November 2011
Time: 12:00-1:30p.m.
Venue: KK605

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Professional Development Sharing Session: Technology-enhanced Learning in the New Curriculum: Out-of-class Activities and Ideas

By The CUE team (Miranda Legg, Louisa Chan, Sam Cole and Jane Stoke), Lillian Wong, Ken Lau and Ashley Hazell
Date: 2  November 2011
Time: 12:00-1:00p.m.
Venue: KK605

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Professional Development Seminar: Building Engagement:The Path to Highly Productive Online Discussions in Asia

By Brant Knutzen

Date: 26  October 2011
Time: 12:00-1:00p.m.
Venue: KK605

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Professional Development Seminar: Moodle in CAES: A Primer

By Patrick Desloge, Wilson Chow, Charlie Leung and Lowana Phillips

Date: 12 October 2011
Time: 12:00-1:30p.m.
Venue: KK605

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Research Seminar: Writing Across the Curriculum, Critical Thinking, and the Idea of Meta Outcomes

by Bill Condon

Date: 7th October 2011
Time: 12:30-1:30p.m.
Venue: KK1121

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Research Seminar: Exploiting A Business Corpus

by Michael Handford

Date: 7th September 2011
Time: 12-1:00p.m.
Venue: KK605

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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by Phil Benson

Date: 4th May 2011
Time: 12-1:00pm
Venue: KK605

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Research Seminar: Profiling the Language/Communication Expert in Professional Education Settings

by Srikant Sarangi

Date: 20 April 2011
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Venue: KK605

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Professional Development  Workshop: Using a Genre-Based Approach for Teaching Productive Skills

by Ashley Hazell-Yildirim, Phil Smyth, Jane Stokes

Date: 13th April 2011
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Venue: KK605

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Professional Development Virtual Seminar: Principles and Procedures for Developing Materials for EAP

by Brian Tomlinson

Date: 2nd March 2011
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Venue: KK605
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Research Seminar: Exploring University Student Writing through the BAWE Corpus

by Sheena Gardner

Date: 16th February 2011
Time: 12-1pm
Venue: KK605
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Professional Development Sharing session: Course Design and Development

By Panels of Arts (Max Hui-Bon-Hoa , Karissa Muse, Matthew Sung, Martin Tang,
Laura Wakeland), Architecture (Liz Samson & Peter Voller), Medicine (Tse
Lai Kun and Tsang Wai Lan) and English in the Discipline teams

Date: 9th February 2011
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Venue: KK605

Professional Development Sharing Session: “Classroom Visit – Peer Observation” for Formative Assessment

By Mike Prosser, David Kember, Max Hui-Bon-Hoa, Tse Lai Kun and Phil Smyth

Date: 8th December 2010
Time: 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Venue: KKLG104

Research Seminar: Using Corpus in Teaching and Research

by Wolfgang Teubert

Date: 24th November 2010
Time: 12-1pm
Venue: KK605
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Research Seminar: Assessment for Learning

by Rick Glocheski

Date: 3rd November 2010
Time: 12-1pm
Venue: KK605
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Research Seminar: Becoming Poets: Stories from Asia

by Agnes Lam and Kelly Tse

Date: 27th October 2010
Time: 12-1pm
Venue: KK605
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Professional Development Virtual Seminar: Online Web-Conferencing and Managing Email Overload

by Patrick Desloge & Wilson Chow

Date: 13th October 2010
Time: 12-1pm
Venue: On-line
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Research Seminar: Disciplinary Differences in Who Gets to Know What

by Sue Hood

Date: 6th October 2010
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Venue: KK605
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Themes:1. Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Language Learning and Teaching
Proposals regarding the use of approaches from other disciplines in the
teaching and/or learning of languages. Theoretical models, their application
to teaching/learning, cross-disciplinary collaboration.

2. Integrating Regional and Social Variation into the Language Classroom
Papers on all aspects of the integration of dialectal and register variation
into the language classroom: instruction levels, specific proposals, textbook
issues.

3. The Assessment of Culture in Language Programs
Papers on all aspects of the assessment of culture in language programs:
Rubrics, guidelines, case studies, relationship to MLA curricular reform
documents, textbook issues.

Proposal Submission by 15 March, 2011

Dates: 6-9 Jan, 2011

Venue: Los Angeles, CA, USA