This project aims to develop a corpus-based online learning system to help English majors at HKIEd improve their academic writing by enhancing their ability to better understand the appropriate use of academic lexico-grammatical items. The project involved compiling three distinctive corpora: An English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Learner Corpus, An EAP Corpus (collected from professionalContinue reading “A Corpus-based Online Learning System: Improving Undergraduates’ Use of Lexico-grammatical Items in Academic Writing”

In the Strategic Areas of Transforming People – Our Students and Our Graduates in the Strategic Plan 2009-2012 and Beyond, the promotion of innovative curriculum design, the application of Information and Communication Technology, new pedagogies and assessment that facilitate learning is emphasized to assure quality education. With the implementation of the New Language Policy (NLP)Continue reading “Interactive Online Self-access Learning Package for ‘Chinese Writing Skills’”