By Anson Sinn (LED Year 2, 2007-2008) & Chloe Liu (LED Year 3, 2007-2008) In an interview with our LED programme coordinator, Prof. Cecilia Chun shared her views on teaching and learning with us. Prof. Chun is currently an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, CUHK. With no preconceived plan towards teaching …
By Sarah Ng (LED 2005 graduate) “Life without passion is no different from death.” This was roughly the way I answered people’s questions on my change of major from Medicine to Education some years back. It was indeed an abrupt decision, yet a mature one. So far I have had no regrets. My years in the education field have …
By Alex Shung (LED Year 4, 2007- 2008) I believe that raising students’ awareness of the sound system is very important in their language learning, and should be done at an earlier stage. Young kids acquire a language mainly through listening. If they are more aware of the sound system, they will be more sensitive …
By Jesper Mok (LED Year 2, 2006-2007) Are you amazed by the hip-hop artists in the MTV? Do you think their rapping skills are tremendous? And that their rapping skills gifted? Actually, rapping is not as difficult as everyone imagines. Through practices as well as exposure, you can become the next rap star! Rap, moreover, …
By Angel Fan (LED Year 4, 2006-2007) I love teaching English through radio drama for it is the first time when I realised that students speak (sometimes they just do not reply you at all!). Most of them are shy and they don’t want to be in the spotlight. Using radio drama, they have no …
By Anita Ma (LED Year 3, 2006-2007) We learn to communicate since we were born. We cried, we smiled and we babbled to seek others’ attention and to convey messages when we were babies. When we get older, we speak, we write and we have no difficulties in expressing ourselves in our mother tongue, Cantonese. …
By Anson Sinn (LED Year 2, 2007-2008) In Hong Kong, most teachers and students seem to have psychological aversions to Literature in English. Some of them associate literature to the ‘Shakespearean’ icon, while others relate it to the ‘classical’ icons of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin. In the past, literature is confined to drama, …
By Vincent Li (LED Year 4, 2006-2007) More than 170 pre-service and in-service teachers attended a well-received seminar on 13 January 2007, which was co-organized by English Teacher Education on the Net (ETENet) and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction of the Faculty of Education. Aimed to introduce innovative ideas on the ways to implement …
By KaLok Ng (LED Year 4, 2007-2008) On 14 July, 2007, I attended a 3-hour workshop conducted by Miss Noorlinah Mohamed, President of Singapore Drama Educators’ Association. The workshop was well-received as all the participants found the workshop very enjoyable.