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I am Head of the English Language Centre at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
I have been working in Hong Kong at the PolyU for twelve years and have been living in Asia for about twenty years - in China, South Korea and Malaysia. Before that I worked in Egypt, Spain, Italy and England.
My experience has been as an English language teacher, teacher-trainer, university lecturer and language centre director .
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learner independence - learner and teacher perceptions |
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teacher development |
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self-access in language learning |
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programme evaluation |
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the use of the World Wide Web and multi-media in a self-access environment |
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educational administration |
Bruce Morrison, Green, C. & Motteram, G. (Eds.) (2003). Directions in CALL: Experience, experiments & evaluation. Hong Kong: English Language Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Bruce Morrison, Gardner, D., Keobke, K. & Spratt, M. (Eds.) (2001). ELT Perspectives on IT & Multimedia. Hong Kong: English Language Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Book chapters & papers in selected proceedings
A Framework for the Evaluation of a Self-Access Language Learning Centre. In Reinders, H. , Anderson, H. , Hobbs, M., and Jones- Parry, J. (eds.) Supporting Independent English Language Learning in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the Independent Learning Association Conference ?2005. Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. September 10 & 11, 2005. pp. 1-17.
The troubling process of mapping and evaluating a self-access language learning centre. In Benson, P. & Toogood, S. (eds.) Learner Autonomy 7: Challenges to Research and Practice. Dublin: Authentik, 2002, pp.71-85.
Evaluating learning gain in a self-access language learning centre. In Language Teaching Research. July 2005, 9/3, pp. 267-293(27).
Recent conference/seminar presentations
Teaching in English: Learning in a second language at the Education Development Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, November 24, 2005.
Evaluating learning gain in a self-access language learning centre at English Language Education and Assessment Centre Seminar. Lingnan University, Hong Kong, October 24, 2005.
A Framework for the Evaluation of a Self-Access Language Learning Centre at Independent Learning Association Conference. Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. September 10 & 11, 2005
Role of the teacher in a self-access language learning centre at Thai TESOL 2005. Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. January 20 ?22, 2005.
Role of the learner in a self-access language learning centre at 38th International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language Conference. Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool,UK. April 13 ?17. 2004
Evaluating learning gain in an independent language learning context at Independent Language Learning: New Research Directions, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, December 4 & 5, 2003.
What is a self-access language learning centre? at The Independent Learning Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, September 13 & 14, 2003.
Funded research & scholarly activity projects
Current projects as Principal Investigator
Meeting the challenges of studying at an English-medium university in Hong Kong - funding from Learning & Teaching Committee (HK$73,000)
An investigation into the academic vocabulary knowledge of PolyU students?- funding from Learning & Teaching Committee (HK$110,100)