Speaking Engagements

May 2024

Teaching English for young learners in China: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference. Carleton University, Ottawa. 

May 2024

"You make them feel like you are comrades- working fighting together": Chinese EFL teachers' roles perceptions in an English medium school. Voices from the Plurilingual Lab Symposium. Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Conference. McGill University, Montréal. 

March 2024

Museums, artefacts, and adult language learning: Insights from a multiliteracy-oriented pedagogy. Session: Critical Language Awareness in Adult Immigrant and Refugee Transitional Programs. TESOL 2024. Florida (In-person)

March 2024

Implementing peer podcasting in an EFL literature course. TESOL 2024. Florida. (In-person)

Feb 2024

Languaging beliefs translate to classroom language policy: Stories from local English teachers. Journal of Language & Literacy Education Winter Conference. (Virtual)

Nov 2023

Insights from reading and teaching queer themed literary text in a conservative context. Georgia Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (GATESOL) Conference. (Virtual)

Nov 2023   

Practitioner's and students' insights from reading queer-themed text. TESL Ontario Virtual Conference. (Virtual)

Sept 2023

[Poster] Museums as spaces for multiliteracies pedagogy in an ESL immersion course. Pre-conference student symposium. Conference on Language and Intercultural Learning. University of Aveiro. Portugal. (Virtual)

Aug 2023   

Chinese high school boys’ sense making of LGBTQ+ themes in an English literary

text: Pedagogical implications for queering language and literacy education. 21st Asia TEFL International Conference. Daejeon, South Korea. (Pre-recorded)

May 2023  

Queer urban youth’s living literacies: Conceptual proposition for research. Outloud The Queer Voices in Research Symposium. McGill University, Montréal, Canada. (In-person)

Dec 2022   

Teaching plurilingual students during school transition period: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of Chinese EFL teachers’ experiences.  International Congress on English Language Education and Applied Linguistics. The Education University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong. (Virtual)

June 2021  

Intentional vocabulary learning using theme-based subtitled video clips in an English preparatory programme course. 1st Desheng School Education Conference. China. (In-person)

Dec 2017   

Keywords, word combinations, and semantic categories in the advertising genre of higher education institutions. International Conference on ESP, New Technologies and Digital Learning. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. (In-person)

Nov 2017  

Rhetorical moves in higher education institutions’ promotional materials. International Conference on English for Specific Purposes. Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan. (In-person)

Dec 2009

Topical structure analysis: The case of the essays written by Cebuano multilingual students. 15th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes. Cebu City, The Philippines. (In-person)

April 2024

Moderator, Mosaïque Dialogues. Aesthetics and Semiotics of Resistance: Cultural Production as Expression of Resilience. McGill University (Virtual). 

April 2024

Presenter (with John Wayne dela Cruz and Lana Zeaiter). Demystifying academic publishing: Insights for graduate scholars. Mosaique Network and Plurilingual Lab. Virtual (Zoom).

January 2024

Co-facilitator, Mosaïque Dialogues. Critical literacy and the algorithmic imagination on #booktok (Bronwen Low & Anita Hagh). McGill University. 

March 2023

Queer pedagogy and the writing classroom. EDSL 332 Literacy 2: Teaching Writing in ESL. McGill University. Canada. [Professor: Dr. Amir Kalan]

June 2022     

Providing whole school ELL support through content and language integrated

learning. RIPE Research Journal Webinar Conference and Asia International School Limited. Hong Kong.

May 2022 

Challenging hetero/cisnormativity: Towards integrating queer pedagogy in English language and literature classrooms. Graduate ELT Materials Development Course. Cebu Normal University. The Philippines.

I conducted these workshops during my tenure as Head of English Department, Extended Essay Coordinator, and Assistant Director at Desheng School (International), Foshan City, Guangdong, China.

2022 Introduction to Content and Language Integrated Learning

2022 Strategies and Techniques in Vocabulary Learning in Content Areas, China

2021 Developing Oracy Skills in Content Areas: Focus on Middle School Teaching

2021 Interdisciplinary Teaching: Theory of Knowledge and Language Arts 

2021 Lesson Planning Using Bloom’s and Fink’s Taxonomies

2020 Supervising High School Students’ Extended Essay Writing

2020 Bloom’s Taxonomy and Assessment for Learning

2019 Some Techniques in Teaching Literature for High School Students

2017 Using Turnitin as a Teaching and Learning Tool