We are excited to announce the upcoming lecture Motivating School Students to Write in English with Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) Strategies, delivered by Assoc. Prof. Barry Bai from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The lecture offers participants the opportunity to:
- Explore how motivational beliefs influence SRL strategy use in writing.
- Engage in practical classroom activities designed to boost motivation and SRL strategy use, such as Stretch a Sentence, Show! Don’t Tell, ARMS, CUPS, and 3-2-1 Self-Reflection.
- Gain actionable techniques to nurture motivated, self-regulated writers by integrating choice, autonomy, and structured strategies throughout the writing process.
The lecture is scheduled as follows.
Date: 26 August 2025
Time: 14:00 – 15:00
Venue: Room F1-608, HCMCUTE
All FFL students are welcome to participate in the lecture. Please register by 19 August 2025 at here.
Barry Bai is an associate professor at the Department of Curriculum and the director of Centre for Language Education and Multiliteracies Research at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2023 and 2024, he was recognized as a top 2% most cited researcher in languages and linguistics worldwide by Stanford University. Additionally, he was named a Highly Ranked Scholar (Lifetime - top 0.05%, #20 and Prior 5 Years – top 0.05%, #3) in the specialty of primary school in 2024 by ScholarGPS. Currently, he serves as the president of Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics (HAAL) and is an associate editor of European Journal of Education and Asia Pacific Journal of Education. He is a recipient of 2014/2015 Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award and has secured highly competitive research funds, Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Competitive Research Funding Schemes (GRF/ECS) for 2018/2019 and 2022/2023. He has conducted multiple projects on English teachers’ continuing professional development funded by Quality Education Fund (QEF) and Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) of the Hong Kong Education Bureau and the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a total funding amount of over HK$ 35 million. Professor Barry has provided training and professional development support to approximately 646 primary and secondary schools, 4,300 English teachers and 50,000 students (alongside 12,880 parents). Through his projects (e.g., GRF, QEF, and SCOLAR), the participants developed and adopted school-based teaching and learning materials. His work appears in leading education journals, including Computers & Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Social Psychology of Education, Research Papers in Education, Cambridge Journal of Education, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Studies in Educational Evaluation, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Language Teaching Research, Applied Linguistics Review, TESOL Quarterly and System.
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