With the implementation of the new Language Policy in 2012, all students will take an expanded English language enhancement package of 138 hours (currently 120 hours) plus 60 hours of optional IELTS preparation workshops. As a service unit, it is important for CLE to align with host programmes/departments to identify the discipline-specific language needs ofContinue reading “Providing EMI Support for Non-English Major Students within an ESP Framework: A Pilot Study”

本計畫配合學校發展目標，評估不同語言背景在校生兩文三語 (粵話、普通話和英話 ) 之口語的即時傳意能力，認定層級、範疇包括口語運用的有效程度、規範程度、熟練程度和自然程度；據此形成報告，為學校語言發展調適提供參考依據；同時以兩文三語的500個口語句為基礎，初步建設學習資源樣板，有針對性地全面提升學生兩交三語能力，為日後旳全面推廣奠定基礎。 本計畫旨在建設新型學習資源，引導學習者善用資訊科技，發展自主學習，全面有效提升兩文三語能力。同時藉由對族群語言和其他語言、文化的體認，擴展國際視野，發展多元文化價值觀，激發人文關懷，引導創新思維，培養跨文化溝通能力和團隊協作精神。

The Centre for Language in Education (CLE) was granted to expand its battery of items for the Tertiary English Language Test (TELT) in 2008 for screening and recruitment of non-JUPAS/non-local students. It was also used as placement test to identify students’ appropriate proficiency levels. The test comprised a reading, listening and vocabulary test for Non-EnglishContinue reading “Further TELT Development for Recruitment and Placement Assessment (TELT Phase 2)”

CLE had developed a valid and reliable placement test, Tertiary English Language Test (TELT), that sorts students into the right proficiency pathways for English language enhancement purposes in the past years. This test had also been used to ascertain the level of English language competency of our postgraduate cohorts of students on entry into HKIEd.Continue reading “TELT Item Bank Development for Tracking Student English Language Proficiency on An Annual Basis”

This project aims to develop a corpus-based, online pronunciation learning system to help HKIEd’s teachers, learners and researchers have a better understanding of the major problems in learning pronunciation by Hong Kong and Mainland English learners. A learners’ pronunciation corpus was established and analysed in order to (a) identify learners’ recurrent difficulties in using EnglishContinue reading “A Corpus-based Online Pronunciation Learning System: the Pedagogical Applications of Spoken Corpus in Improving Hong Kong / Mainland University Students’ English Pronunciation”

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”