Research Seminars
- ENGL staff & invited speakers

ENGL staff & invited speakers

Date / Time
Speakers
Title of Seminar
Venue
4 November 2008 /
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM		 Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard

The Mis-representation of Women in News as Narrative

 AG434
4 November 2008 /
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM		 Professor Malcolm Coulthard
Professor of Forensic Linguistics

The Linguist as Detective and Expert Witness

AG434
15th July 2008 /
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM		 Prof Alan Davies

Should we listen to (all) stakeholders?

AG434
8th July 2008 /
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Francis Low

 Reading an ad message through an unknown dimension: Is that ad meant for me to read? AG434
23th June 2008 /
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lucy MacGregor

 Disfluencies in speech affect language comprehension: evidence from event-related potentials and recognition memory AG434

4th June 2008 /
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

12th June 2008 /
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

 Professor Anna-Brita Stenstrom Fil. Dr. Professor Em.

Corpus-based Contrastive Pragmatics: Perspectives from Youth Language

From Slang to Slanguage

 AG434
2nd June 2008 /
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM		 Beatrice Lok Motivation to Learn English in Classrooms with Native English-Speaking Teachers in Hong Kong AG434
3 April 2008 /
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM 		Professor Shi-xu Reconstructing Eastern Paradigms of Discourse Studies AG434
31 March 2008 / 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Richard Cauldwell Defining fluency - beyond 'ums and ahs'
 AG434

25th March 2008 /
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

26th March2008 /
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

 Prof Catherine Nickerson

1) Publishing in international journals:
How to market your work to an editor.

2) The use of English in international advertising: Is it really effective?

 AG434
6 March 2008 / 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Jill Brown Qualitative research in the English language classroom AG434
26 November 2007 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM 		Constant Leung Communicative Competence: Moving Beyond Reification
 AG434
12 July 2007 /
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM 		Prof. Kathy Sylva Training parents to support their children's reading at home: an RCT fieldstudy AG434
6 December 2006 /
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM		 Prof. John Flowerdew Writing for publication in English: plagiarism,
some notes from the underground,
and some reflections on stigma		 AG434
28 November 2006 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM		 Vijay K Bhatia INterdiscursivity in Professional Communication AG434
14 November 2006 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM		 Prof. Andy Kirkpatrick English as an ASEAN lingua franca: linguistic features and communicative strategies AG434
31 October 2006 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM		 Dr Li Lan An Internet Approach to the Study of Neologisms in English and Chinese AG434
10 October 2006 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM		 Dr Tom McArthur
(Editor of The Oxford Guide to World English)		 Whose English? AG434
29 March 2006 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM		 Prof Fan Yang
(Tshingua University) 		A Study on Topical Theme in Chinese -- A SFL Perspective AG434
7 March 2006 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM		 Dr Gail Forey Communication, Concerns and Current Research in The Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) Industry AG434
22 February 2006 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Dr John McAndrew

Aspects of ideology, intertextuality and language AG434
20 February 2006 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM		 An na Kristina Hultgren

‘Communication Skills': dissecting the notion

AG434
14 February 2006 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM		 Dr Li Lan Business Metaphors in Chinese and English: a corpus approach AG434
17 January 2006 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM		 Dr Lynne Flowerdew
(Language Centre
University of Science and Technology) 		A corpus-based analysis of apprentice and professional reports AG434
6 December 2005/
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM 		Prof Winnie Cheng
Prof Martin Warren 		so I don't know that she will:
How do speakers disagree and give an opinion in Hong Kong English? 		AG434
15 November 2005 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM		 Prof Chris Candlin
Professional Communication as a Matter of Deploying Strategic Resource AG710
1 November 2005 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM		 Dr Stephen Evans
The introduction and spread of English-language education in early colonial Hong Kong AG434
4 October 2005 /
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM		 Cherry Wong
(TWGHs. Mr. & Mrs. Kwong Sik Kwan College)
Dr Svetlana Chigaeva
(ELC, PolyU) 		Researching and Supporting the Literacy Learning of Low Proficiency Students in a Hong Kong Secondary School AG434

Research Seminars for ENGL Research students