Faculty Newsletter

Teacher Workshop on “From Appreciation of Poetry to Education of Morality and Affection”

Teacher Workshop on “From Appreciation of Poetry to Education of Morality and Affection” was organised by the Department of Chinese Language Studies (CHL), co-organised by the School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong and International Classics Culture Association, and funded by the Quality Education Fund. The workshop was held on 10 October 2020 via Zoom and chaired by Professor Si Chung Mou, the Head of CHL. Themed on poetry teaching, two talks were delivered at the workshop, i.e. “Cultivating Emotions and Vocations through Poetry” by Dr Jin Meng Yao (Lecturer of CHL) and “Recitation and Poetry Teaching” by Dr Dung Chau Hung (Professor of the Department of Chinese Literature of Chu Hai College of Higher Education). More than 130 participants attended the workshop via Zoom.

Department of Chinese Language Studies

Zoom Workshop Series on “Suspending Classes without Suspending Learning”

In view of the current needs of pandemic prevention, the Department of Chinese Language Studies (CHL) has organised a series of Zoom workshops on “Suspending Classes without Suspending Learning” to support online teaching of primary and secondary teachers. The workshop series invited senior frontline teachers to share their practical experiences in “Suspending Classes without Suspending Learning”. These workshops have been incorporated into the “Academic Activity Award Scheme of the Bachelor of Education (Honours) (Chinese Language)” to encourage pre-service teachers to equip themselves with practical knowledge and skills in online teaching settings.

Department of Chinese Language Studies

Responds to Teachers Professional Development Needs in the Online Teaching Era

An online training platform called eTEACHERS.online developed by the Department of English Language Education (ELE) has offered English teachers support in adapting to the “new normal” of online teaching during the pandemic. The training and experience-sharing platform offers a modular online training course for English teachers to develop their knowledge and skills of teaching apps that have a proven record of effectiveness in the local context. Teachers choose the course topics that best fit their immediate training needs, taking between 5 – 12 hours of online training. In this way, teachers can ramp up their practical skills for online teaching as soon as possible. In addition, the eTEACHERS.online platform hosts exemplar video and resources of practicing “eTeachers” who have developed creative approaches to blended learning, often using technology integration to take lessons beyond the possibilities of the traditional classroom. In June 2020, the eTEACHERS.online platform served as the host of ELE’s third roundtable sharing event on e-Learning in the English language classroom “Navigating the New Normal”. Many local teachers and e-learning experts shared their experience via the webinar hosted on the platform, and recordings of their sessions remain online for local teachers’ continued reference benefit. In September 2020, a sharing session was held about the eTEACHERS.online platform and the organic development of a technology-enhanced language learning and teaching community. The department plans to continue offering timely and relevant resources for local English teachers, including a second generation of the Entry-level e-resources training course, as well as a new Intermediate-level course scheduled to be launched in 2021. The department will also host the fourth e-Learning roundtable sharing event on eTEACHERS.online in June 2021.

Department of English Language Education

Application of Web-Based Learning and Teaching in Language Education

Anastasia Lam Tsz Yu, Year 1 Student of BA(Lang Studies) (2020/21) - My first year at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) has been full of ups and downs. I have made many good friends, but we cannot have face-to-face lessons because of COVID-19. We have been using Zoom to conduct lessons for the whole semester. I have to admit that it is not easy for both students and teachers. But I am still very grateful that I can study at the EdUHK.

Faculty of Humanities

New Experience of Online Learning

Lam Chak Lun, Year 4 Student of BA(TCSL) (2020/21) - Due to social distancing measures under the coronavirus pandemic, schools have switched to online teaching in 2020/21. At first, I thought there would not be any internship opportunity in my university life. However, thanks to the special arrangement arranged by the teachers of the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, I would be able to participate in the online field experience of Beijing Language and Culture University.

Faculty of Humanities