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John Knox
Professional outreach
John has reviewed for the following journals:
- Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
- Linguistics and the Human Sciences
- Prospect
- Visual Communication
Professional work in language assessment
2000 – 2006
University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
- IELTS Item Writer
1997 – 2006
University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate,
and IDP Education Australia
- IELTS Examiner
2003 - 2006
Adult Migrant English Program,
National Assessment Task Bank Project
- Consultant (Task and Item Moderation and Writing)
December 2005 - January 2006
Adult Migrant English Program,
Citizenship Course Project
- Consultant (Assessment Task Developer)
November 1999 – June 2000
University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
- Oral Examiner Trainer / Co-ordinator
November 1995 – November 1999
University of Cambridge Local examinations Syndicate
- Oral Examiner
Invited presentations
May 2008
Multimodality in the newspaper: How and what do photographs mean?
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
- Guest lecture (with Helen Caple)
April 2008
Language in new media: Images, words, and meaning in an online newspaper
Department of Linguistics
University of Sydney
- Guest lecture
October 2007
The Language of Media
Department of Languages and Social Science
King Mongkut Institute of Technology, Ladkrabang, Thailand
- Invited Seminar (with Pattama Patpong)
October 2007
Teaching grammar and the four skills
Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development
Mahidol University, Thailand
- Guest Lecture
December 2005
Workshop on ESP Teaching and Testing
Department of Applied Foreign Languages
National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
- Invited Course (with David Hall)
December 2005
Systemic Functional Linguistics: A brief look at the theory and its applications to language education
Department of Applied Foreign Languages
Tong-Fang Institute, Taiwan
- Invited Seminar
September 2005
Writing and Moderating Assessment Tasks: Professional Development Workshop
AMES Assessment Task Bank Project
National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, Macquarie University
- Invited Workshop (with Stephen Moore and Helen Slatyer)
August, 2005
Summer Teacher Training Program: Professional Development for English Teachers at Technological Colleges and Universities
National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- Invited Course
July 2003
Professional Development Research Workshop
National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, Macquarie University
- Invited Workshop (with Nicholas Cope)
October 2002
Grammar Workshop
NSW Adult Migrant English Service
- Invited Workshop (with Anne Burns)