Knowledge Transfer Workshops Series – How to help Hong Kong Students Discover English
The Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML) offered a series of Knowledge Transfer (KT) workshops entitled ‘How to Help Hong Kong Students Discover English’ from October to December 2017. In recent decades, how to help students learn and use real language patterns has posed a big challenge for English teachers. Traditional tools (e.g. textbooks, dictionaries, other published materials, etc.) and teachers’ intuition, are unable to fully address this issue. This is an area where corpus linguistics can fill the gap. Using corpus data allows students and teachers to study naturally occurring English language for grammatical patterns, word usage and textual discourse. In addition, corpus-based teaching allows teachers to develop their hands-on activities that cater for students at different levels. Students can also use corpora to explore authentic language data and answer their own queries about the English language, as well as to become more independent language learners.
語言學及現代語言學
