John Blake Research Lecturer
Institute of General Education

■Degrees

BA(Hons), MBA, MEd(App Ling), AdvDipEd(lang & lit), RSA Cert TEFLA, RSA Dip TEFLA

■Professional Career

Lecturer at Dundee College (1993-1999), Tutor at City University of Hong Kong (1999-2000), Instructor at ELC The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2000-2008), Visiting Lecturer at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(2000-2008), Academic director at Excel Learning (2008-2012), Research Lecturer at JAIST (2012 - present)

■Specialties

Discourse analysis (forensic, corpus and systemic functional linguistics).

■Publications

◇Books

Daily Life in Hong Kong.，Lai, V., Blake, J. and Cheung, M.，Hong Kong: Ming Pao Publishing.，2004
Get a Job and Succeed.，Lai, V., Blake, J. and Cheung, M.，Ming Pao Publishing.，2004

◇Published Papers

Understanding samurai dramas: Scaffolding students through the cultural and linguistic entry barriers，Blake, J.，Working papers of 4th North East Asian Region Language Education Conference，(under consideration)
English Everywhere.，Lai, V., Blake, J. and Cheung, M.，Ming Pao Daily.，20 articles，2004
English Everywhere，Lai, V., Blake, J. and Cheung, M.，Sing Tao Daily，20 articles

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◇Lectures and Presentations

Understanding samurai dramas: An investigation into scaffolding students of Japanese through the cultural and linguistic entry barriers.，Blake, J.，Poster presentation at the 4th North East Asian Region Language Education Conference，Niigata, Japan，2012, May 25
The murky waters of copying and citing.，Blake, J.，Regional Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists，Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.，2012, July 5-7
One class, one improvement: A case study of systematic incremental improvement.，Blake, J.，11th Seminar for English Education - Effective language teaching: The never-ending challenge.，Kansai University of International Studies, Amagasaki, Japan.，2012, July 21