The Executive Committee
Report for 2005-06
This Report covers the period from
Chair
Hon. Sec.
Treasurer Joanne Chuk (HKIED)
Members May Fan (HKPU)
Wang Lixun (HKIED) Webmaster
Ngar Fun Liu
The new committee was formed in late
September 2005, and soon commenced activities in early October. May Fan of HKPU
and
1. Seminars
The following seven seminars were conducted:
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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Dr. Arthur McNeil (CUHK) |
“Teacher language awareness: insights from vocabulary knowledge
profiles and individual teaching philosophies” |
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Prof. Merrill Swain, OISE/University of |
“Riddles and puns in the ESL classroom: Adults talk to learn” |
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Dr.
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“Feedback in the |
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13 Feb. 2006 |
Dr. Andrew Goatly ( |
“Metaphor and Ideology” |
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Dr. Angel Lin (CUHK) |
“Teaching
English(es) for Global Citizenship: Changing Roles of ESL/EFL Teachers in a
Globalizing World” |
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Dr. David Li ( |
“Lexical gap, semantic incongruence, and the ‘medium-of-learning effect’: Three neglected motivations of code-switching” |
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3 May 2006 |
Dr.
David Carless (HKU) |
“Task-based teaching with |
We were able to attract a large audience to the seminars by providing wide publicity.
The Sai Kung Junk Trip was organized for the second year. Due to another junk trip being scheduled on the same evening, the attendance was much less than in 2004.
2. Executive Committee Decisions
Two ExCo Meetings were held, at which a number of new initiatives were
approved by the Committee. They were to (1) migrate
the HAAL website to an independent site, (2) launch a Postgraduate Student
Grant for Overseas Conference Presentations, (3) cease the affiliation with
AILA and to affiliate with TESOL, Inc, (4) move the cruise from Sai Kung to
In the past, the HAAL website had moved from institution to institution.
Most recently, it had been at
The Postgraduate Student Travel Award was launched to promote the
academic activities of student members. Three applications were received, and $1,000
each was awarded to Li Dan Li (HKBU), Li Jie (CUHK) and Niu Ruiying (HKU).
The Committee reviewed the affiliation with AILA. The benefits of the
affiliation were discounted registration for HAAL members at the AILA Congress,
conducted every three years, and free copies of the annual AILA Review.
Over the past few years, only two or three HAAL members had attended the AILA
Congress and the members had shown little interest in the AILA Review.
The affiliation with AILA cost US$6 annually per HAAL member (equivalent to the
membership fee paid by each HAAL student member and half the membership fee
paid by other members), and had cost HK$14,585 from 2001-04. The affiliation
was not cost effective and the Committee unanimously agreed not to renew it.
The Committee discussed an affiliation with TESOL Inc. The benefits
from TESOL Inc. were grants for guest speakers, a consultant service, three
complimentary TESOL memberships, affiliate e-mail and e-lists, affiliate web
links, etc. The annual cost was only US$2 per HAAL member. The Committee
unanimously agreed to affiliate with TESOL Inc. HAAL became the 99th
affiliate of TESOL Inc. in September 2006, and joined a network of 42,000
applied linguists worldwide.
The Sai Kung junk trip, subsidized at $300 per member, had cost HAAL
about HK$9,000 in the past two years. The Committee agreed that this subsidy
was too costly and decided to move to a less expensive Victoria Harbor Cruise.
Only student members would receive a subsidy of $150.
The fifth initiative was to revive the Research Forum, conducted for
the first time in 2000. It was scheduled for June 2007 and would be held at the
HK Polytechnic University. More details will be announced in January 2007.
3. Financial
Situation
HAAL finances remain healthy. The Treasurer’s Report is given below.
4. Membership
HAAL saw an increase in membership from 60 to 73 this year. About 60% of the members are university academic staff, followed by students (16%), staff of language institutes (8%), NETs (7%), and secondary school principals, teachers, and EMB consultants (9%).
The Chairman wishes to thank the Committee Members for their hard work
and dedication during the year. A special “Thank you” is offered to May Fan for
arranging the seminar venue and refreshments, and to the English Department of
the
HAAL Financial Record 2005-06
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HAAL Income 05/06 |
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HK$ |
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HAAL Expenditure 05/06 |
HK$ |
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Balance
brought forward |
|
|
refreshments |
|
1140.8 |
|||
|
1.
savings a/c |
|
39,517.43 |
|
PG
Student Travel Award |
|
3000 |
||
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2.
current a/c |
|
2114.94 |
|
postage |
|
23.9 |
||
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3.
petty cash |
|
5499.6 |
|
website
registration fee |
50 |
|||
|
|
|
|
|
website
payment |
|
776 |
||
|
membership
fee |
|
6900 |
|
Richard
Pemberton farewell - card+dinner |
566.2 |
|||
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junk
trip income |
|
3850 |
|
meal
expenses |
905 |
|||
|
interest
on saving a/c |
|
51.27 |
|
junk
trip expenses |
7700 |
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Total |
14,161.9 |
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HAAL Capital as at |
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1.
savings a/c |
|
40,538.7 |
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2.
current a/c |
|
154.24 |
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3.
petty cash |
|
3078.5 |
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Total |
57,933.24 |
|
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Total |
43,771.44 |
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income
- expenditure |
|
43,771.34 |
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extra |
0.1 |