COVID-19 has significantly impacted education in recent years, serving as a real test of creativity and adaptability in language education. This project highlights the importance of developing language teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) and enhancing students’ language learning in Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). The project aims to establish a Professional Learning Community (PLC) onContinue reading “Developing language teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge and enhancing students’ language learning in virtual learning environments”

Following a thorough investigation, a Community of Practice (CoP) on technology-enhanced language learning and teaching will be established, consolidated, and sustained in EdUHK and extended to other Hong Kong higher education institutions. The community members include students, academic/teaching staff, and experts inside and outside EdUHK who engage in active exchanges of the use of technologiesContinue reading “Language enhancement at EdUHK and beyond: Fostering a Community of Practice on technology-enhanced language learning and teaching”

In keeping with the intense shift toward adopting blended learning, especially online teaching pedagogies, at universities worldwide, this project provided a platform for developing online teaching effectiveness among the academic and teaching staff of FHM. In this project, staff members will try blended and online teaching approaches developed on the TPACK and TIM frameworks (Herring,Continue reading “Promoting blended and online teaching in FHM to enhance students’ learning: Increasing readiness, resources, innovation and effectiveness”

Despite the emerging importance of corpus linguistics and its great potential in facilitating language teaching and learning, a corpus-based linguistic approach still remains largely unknown to the majority of the professional teaching community. This project is based on a differentiation between corpus linguistic research and language pedagogy, where solutions are developed and implemented to facilitateContinue reading “Enhancement of Student Learning Outcomes: Developing Pre-service and In-service English Teachers’ Corpus Literacy Using Flipped Learning Enhanced by Mobile Technologies”

In recent years, the fast development of mobile technologies has greatly enriched and assisted students’ subject learning in higher education, and more and more lecturers have started using mobile technologies (smart phone, tablet, pocket pc, notebook, etc.) to assist their teaching. This project aims to showcase the vitality and creativity of tertiary students of differentContinue reading “Promoting Mobile Learning in the EdUHK and Beyond through Further Development of a Mobile Learning Community”

As English is the major medium of instruction in Hong Kong tertiary education, this project links mobile technologies with subject learning through English and showcases the vitality and creativity of tertiary students of different levels (undergraduates, masters, doctorates) and from different disciplines (Science, Social Science, Education, Arts and Humanities, etc.) in mobile learning. Following aContinue reading “Fostering a Mobile Learning Community: the Use of Mobile Technologies in Studying Subject Knowledge through English in Tertiary Education in Hong Kong”