April 21, 2004

Consultation service to the Board of National College English Test on Bands 4 and 6 Tests.

August 1-30, 2005; September 1-30, 2006; September 1-30, 2007; May 1-30,2008

Sino-France intercultural training respectively for PPR Co., Banque Populaire , France LELECOM, and EDF Co.

July 24-31, 2006

Workshops in Pragmatics for teachers and postgraduate students across China . Topics include: “lexical pragmatics”, “semantic/pragmatic distinction”, “explicit/implicit distinction”, and “acquisition of pragmatics” (by Professor Deirdre Wilson); “pragmatics as a sub-discipline of linguistics vs. pragmatics as a way of doing linguistics”, “pragmatics and the diversity of languages”, “pragmatics and translation” and “the pragmatics of frozen discourse: text and pragmatics” (by Professor Hartmut Haberland); “the methodology of conversation analysis” and “grammar and discourse” (by Professor K. K. Luke); “pragmatics inference: from principles to models” and “understanding the intentionality of utterances” (by Professor XU Shenghuan); “Application of RT & Beyond”, “Development of Pragmatics & Beyond”, “Research in Pragmatics”, etc.

March 7-9, 2007

Workshops on language testing and course evaluation for high school English teachers in Guangdong Province .

November 26-30, 2007

In-service training for high school English teachers in Guangdong Province .

From November 2006 to November 2008

English training for policemen in the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Public Security.

December 11-14, 2010

Demonstration classes of English Intermediate Writing for English college teachers across China

November 2-4, 2012

In-service training for teaching the course “English Intermediate Writing”