Profile Name: Ms YANG Chi Cheung Ruby Qualifications: -- Certificate in Secondary Education (English), HKIEd - Bachelor of Education (with First Class Honours), HKU - Master of Education (Specialism: English Language Education and English Language Studies), HKU - Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics, HKU - Professional Development Course for Teachers (Catering for Diverse Learning Needs), HKIEd - Certificate in Assessment & Counselling for Children with Specific Learning Difficulties, American Institute of Applied Psychology

Email:	rccyang@ied.edu.hk
Office:	B4-1/F-07 Department of English Hong Kong Institute of Education 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, Hong Kong
Tel:	2948 8180

	Integrating Information and Communication Technology in the ESL Classroom
	Lexis, Morphology and Semantics
	Language in Society and in Education
	Sociolinguistics and English as an International Language
	Dyslexia and its impact upon language learning

Research Interests

	Vocabulary teaching and learning
	Classroom Discourse Analysis
	IT in ELT

Guest Speaker

• Seminar on The characteristics of autism and strategies of teaching autistic children at Y. C. H. Chan Iu Seng Primary School (28 August 2008).
• Workshop on Catering for Learner Difficulties in English Language Learning: The characteristics of learning difficulties at Chiu Chow Association Secondary School (27 August 2008).
• New Senior Secondary (NSS) Curriculum Workshop at Man Kiu College (22 May 2008).
• Phonics Workshop run by the English Society, The Hong Kong Institute of Education (18 January 2007).
• Effective use of Multi Media Learning Centre (MMLC) to improve secondary students' listening and speaking competence in English (jointly run by the EMB and Pui Ching Education Centre) (December 2005 - August 2006).

Community Services and Other Duties

• Voluntary referee for System (November 2008 - Present).
• Consultant of the Leo Living English Project (co-organized by The Salvation Army, Centre for Language in Education and Department of English, The Hong Kong Institute of Education) (October 2008 - December 2009).
• Coordinator of the Revive My Dreams Project English Day Camp (co-organized by The Boys’ & Girls’ Clubs Association of Hong Kong and the Department of English, The Hong Kong Institute of Education) (11 October 2008).
• Invited referee for The International Journal of Learning (October 2008).
• Member of the Interview Panel for the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarships for Undergraduate, Diploma and Certificate Students 2008/2009, The Hong Kong Institute of Education (26 September 2008).
• Coordinator of the visit of the "Junior Chief Executive" ( 香港小特首) (co-organized by The Boys’ & Girls’ Clubs Association of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Institute of Education) (10 May 2008).
• Consultant and Coordinator of the Revive my Dreams Project English Course (童夢再生計劃英語課程) (co-organized by The Boys’ & Girls’ Clubs Association of Hong Kong and the Department of English, The Hong Kong Institute of Education) (May 2008 - Dec 2008).
• Consultant and Coordinator of the Revive My Dreams Project (童夢再生計劃) (co-organized by The Boys’ & Girls’ Clubs Association of Hong Kong and the Department of English, The Hong Kong Institute of Education) (May 2007 - Jan 2008) .
• Assessor of The Hong Kong Institute of Education Internal LPAT Speaking Paper (27 May 2007 & 1 June 2008).
• Adjudicator of the Senior English Debates Final (organized by the English Debating Society, St. Paul’s Convent School) (18 April 2007).
• Adjudicator of the preliminary rounds of the Standard Chartered Hong Kong English Public Speaking Contest 2007 (Senior division) (24 & 27 February 2007).
• Teacher-in-charge of the Inter-school Mini-Oscar Project run by the EMB (September 2005).
• Member of the Review Panel for the Bachelor of Education programmes at The University of Hong Kong (September 2003).
  

External Appointments

• Accredited Rater of the GSLPA (English) Spoken Test (administered by the English Language Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) (8 June - 23 June 2008).
• Rater of the GSLPA (English) Written Test (administered by the English Language Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) (14 April - 10 May 2008).
• Invigilator of International and Professional Examinations (administrated by the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority) (March - June 2008).
• Marker of the Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers of English (LPATE) Paper 2 Writing (Part 1) (March 2008).
• Oral Assessor of the Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers of English (LPATE) (3 & 4 March 2008).
• Centre Supervisor for the Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers of English (LPATE) written papers (17 Feb 2008).
• Marker of AS Use of English, Section E (Practical Skills for Work & Study) (April & May 2007).

Award

• Award of the most devoted service volunteer - Revive My Dreams Project (awarded by The Boys’ & Girls’ Clubs Association of Hong Kong) (15 December 2007).

Selected Publications

• Yang, C. C. R. (2010, forthcoming). Teacher questions in second language classrooms: An investigation of three case studies. Asian EFL Journal.
• Yang, C. C. R. (2008, forthcoming). A case study of the use of short stories in a junior secondary ESL classroom in Hong Kong. The International Journal of Learning, 16.

Paper Presentation at Conferences

• Yang, C. C. R. (2008). Teacher questions in second language classrooms: An investigation of three case studies. Conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences. Gottenheim, Germany, 1 - 4 December, 2008.

Research project