Autonomy has now become a key idea in language education policy internationally and in Hong Kong. Although quite a number of studies have been conducted to investigate the development of teacher autonomy by engaging in-service language teachers in action research and reflective practice, there is a dearth of work exploring issues of autonomy in pre-serviceContinue reading “Promoting Autonomy by Employing Pedagogical Strategies in a Language Teacher Education Programme”

The six Common Core courses (18 credits) in the newly approved BA (Lang Studies) programme were designed to facilitate the development of bilingual academic competence. This is achieved by teaching content courses in Chinese (Cantonese/ Putonghua) or English to both Chinese majors and English majors. Two of the six Common Core courses were taught inContinue reading “Promoting Collaborative Team-teaching in BA (Lang Studies) Common Core courses: An Action Research Project”