Stephen has been at CityU since January 2001, and has also taught in Seoul, Prague, London, Bath and Buenos Aires. His main areas of interest in English teaching are methodology, materials/syllabus development, pedagogical grammar, learner strategies and teacher training. He has led several series of teacher training workshops for his LC colleagues and Hong Kong secondary school teachers. He was a finalist for the CityU Teaching Excellence Award in 2010.

Publications

As primary author

Learning English through Drama Resource Pack (published by the HK Education Bureau for the Elective Part of the New Secondary School (NSS) English Language Curriculum

As co-author

• Longman Elect
  Learning English through Drama
• Longman Activate
  Learning English through Drama

Conference Papers

• 2011
  Summary writing skills for lower-level learners: The CityU experience (co-presenter). Hong Kong PolyU: LC Symposium.
• 2012
  How can genre-based pedagogies inform novice undergraduate English for Academic Purposes curriculum and assessment development? A Hong Kong case study (co-presenter). Carleton University, Ottawa: Genre 2012.
• 2013
  Making headway beyond Headway: An educational change management case study. University of Nottingham: BALEAP.
• 2013
  E-Learning in the new curriculum: Lessons and opportunities across institutions (co-presenter). CityU: LC Symposium
• 2014
  Secret agents: Teaching complex noun phrases & nominalisation to developing academic writers. Institute of technology, Phnom Penh: CamTESOL