Barley Mak has been training primary and secondary English language teachers at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels in Hong Kong and New Zealand since 1990. She has served on many HKSAR teacher education committees (e.g., the ACTEQ Task Force on Language Benchmark Training Arrangement (English) and various committees for the Chief Executive’s Award for Teaching Excellence.) She has conducted various public-funded research projects (e.g. Quality Education Fund and the Hong Kong Education City.) on language and teacher education related areas, focusing on developing professional development support to and enhancing the knowledge sharing community networking of English language teachers. Dr Mak is the founding Director of the Writing for Integrated Teacher Education Project (WrITE) - the first Asian site of the National Writing Project (NWP) administered out of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California , Berkeley . The NWP in the United States is a network of 175 university-affiliated sites across the United States with select international partnerships. The WrITE Project aims at improving the teaching and learning of English at the school level in Hong Kong through the teaching of writing. It has thus far attracted more than HK$2.5 million of research grant. Dr Mak is currently collaborating with academics in the USA on projects related to the assessment for writing.

Second Language Learning Anxiety, Classroom Practices, Teacher Behaviour, Learner Autonomy, Psycholinguistics, Writing Strategies, Assessment for Writing, as well as Community Building and Professional Development of Teachers.

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1. Mak, Barley and Pun, Shuk-han (2005). Grooming a Teacher Community for Sustainable Professional Development : Possibility and Uncertainty . Manuscript submitted to review for publication.. Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong , pp.1-40.
   
   
2. Mak, Barley (2005) A Reflective Report to EMB on the Training Programme for English L anguage Proficiency Certificate. Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong, p.1-105.
   
   

3. Mak, Barley (2004). Report on the 2004 Writing for Integrated Teacher Education (WrITE) Project Summer Institute – A Report Submitted to Dr. Tien Cheng Lin Technology Innovation Foundation Ltd.
   
   
4. Mak, Barley (2003) A Reflective Report to EMB on the Training Programme for English L anguage Proficiency Certificate. Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong
   
   
5. Crew, Vernon , Davison, Chris and Mak, Barley (2002) (Ed). Reflecting on Language in Education, Hong Kong : Hong Kong Institute of Education
   
   
6. Mak, Barley and Turnbull, Michael (1999). “Piloting Structured Language Learning Support in a University Self-access Centre: Researching some Key Issues” Exploring Diversity in the Language Curriculum, Hong Kong : Hong Kong Institute of Education, (pp.217-226).
   
   
7. Mak, Barley, Li, Cissy and Yin, Marshall (1998). “Developing Worksheet Materials for Self-Access Language Learning Centre”, HKBU Occasional Papers in Applied Linguistics, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Baptist University , Vol. 3. (pp.39-46).
   
   
8. Mak, Barley and White, Cynthia (1997). “Communication Apprehension of Chinese ESL Students”, Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Vol. 2 #1, June, 1997. (pp 81-96).