Staff Publications and Conference Presentations in 2015

Conference Presentations

• Ahrens, Kathleen (2015). Co-presented a paper entitled “Changes on the Use of JOURNEY Metaphors in American Presidential Speeches” with Chan Wing-shan. Presentation at the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13) held from 20-25 July 2015 in Northumbria University, Newcastle, England.
• Ahrens, Kathleen (2015). Presented a paper entitled “Crafting the Perfect Pitch” at Writers and Illustrators Conference held from 3-5 June 2015 in Asian Festival of Children’s Content, Singapore.
• Ahrens, Kathleen (2015). Presented a paper entitled “Writing Bilingual Picture Books” at Writers and Illustrators Conference held from 3-5 June 2015 in Asian Festival of Children’s Content, Singapore.
• Ahrens, Kathleen (2015). Co-presented a paper entitled “A Lexical Frequency and Collocational Approach to Conceptual Metaphor Modeling” with Paul Yu-Jun Chang. Presentation at The CKIP Anniversary Workshop on Chinese Lexicon held on 2 April 2015 in Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei.
• Bankowski, Elizabeth (2015). Presented a paper entitled “Using e-Learning Materials to Enhance Students’ Discipline Specific English” at the 22nd International Conference on Learning held from 9-11 July 2015 at Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid, Spain.
• Bankowski, Elizabeth (2015). Presented a paper entitled “Developing Students English Literacy Skills for Their Study in Academic Disciplines” at the European Conference on Language Learning held from 1-2 July 2015 in Thistle Brighton, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom.
• Bankowski, Elizabeth (2015). Presented a paper entitled “Supporting and Developing Students’ English Literacy Practices in the Disciplines” at the Faces of English: Theory, Practice and Pedagogy Conference held on 11 June 2015 at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• Bankowski, Elizabeth (2015). Presented a paper entitled “English Literacy in Disciplines” at the 4th International Conference on Education held on 27 June 2015 at St. Petersburg Christian University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 朱少璋 (Chu C.S.) (2015)。 〈因情定體：談詩歌創作情與體的配合〉公開演說發表於香港浸會大學璞社詩藝所舉辦的座談會上，2015年1月25日。
• 朱少璋 (Chu C.S.) (2015)。 〈散文的可能〉公開演說發表於尖沙咀商務印書館，2015年1月18日。
• Ng, Angela (2015). Presented a paper entitled “Let the Language Teachers Deal with It” at the International Conference on the Development of English Across the Curriculum held from 14-15 December 2015 at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
• Ng, Angela (2015). Co-presented a paper entitled “The Impact of Peer-tutoring in a University Language Classroom” with Lau, P. at the Lilly International Spring Conference on Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning held from 28-31 May 2015 at Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
• Singh, Rita (2015). Co-presented a paper entitled “Developing a Thematic Categorization System for Corporate Leaders’ Web-based Communication in Greater China” with Ngai Sing Bik, Cindy. Presentation at the CCI Conference on Corporate Communication held from 2-5 June 2015 in Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, USA.
• Singh, Rita (2015). Received the Best Theoretical Paper Award at the CCI Conference on Corporate Communication 2015.
• 鄭蕾 (Zheng Lei) (2015)。Presented a paper entitled “五零、六零年代香港報刊中的存在主義 —– 一種「大眾文化」的解讀” at The 10th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, Asia and Alternative Modernities, ASAHK held on 15 March 2015 at Chu Hai College of Higher Education, Hong Kong.
• 鄭蕾 (Zheng Lei) (2015)。論文〈「現代主義」或是「先鋒派」？——以溫健騮為例〉發表於香港教育學院人文學院、文學及文化學系、流行文化與人文學研究中心及香港樹仁大學歷史系聯合籌辦的 「香港史」國際學術研討會」，2015年4月11日。
• Chan, M. (2015, September). Persuasive writing at workplace: A corpus linguistic approach. Paper presented at 2015 ALAK International Conference, Seoul, South Korea.
• Chan, M. (2015, June). L2 acquisition of tense and aspect by Cantonese and Mandarin ESL learners of different proficiency. Paper presented at Changing English: Integrating cognitive, social & typological perspectives, Helsinki, Finland.
• Chan, M. (2015, January). Processing instruction and learning of tense [Conference session]. 13th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education (HICAH), Honolulu, Hawaii.