Survival Guide: How to adapt to life at PolyU

Join this joint EDC/ELC project and learn new skills! Create videos that answers first-year student questions on how to better adapt to life at PolyU. Student participants get to attend a 90-minute training workshop, create a short video highlighting one issue commonly encountered by first-year students, and showcase their video on campus.  Registration Link for workshop:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzme2Aw8lIG4XcAYU3LP2Fn9_8NvNdBzg8LkkfkK_wZeaRLQ/viewform

Big Mouth Corner Returns - Thursday 6 October

The ELC is pleased to announce the return of Big Mouth Corner. Staring from Thursday 6 October, there will be weekly sessions from 18:30-20:30 in CILL, Room A305 until Thursday 17 November. Students are encouraged to come to Big Mouth Corner to relax, practise, and improve their English!

ELC Team Wins 2022 UGC Teaching Award

Congratulations to the  English Across the Curriculum (EAC) Team for winning the 2022 UGC Teaching Award! More details are here: https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/ugc/about/press_speech_other/press/2022/pr20220926.html EAC is led by Julia Chen and Grace Lim. Current team members of EAC are Eric Ho, Mary Cheng, Frankie Har, Bonnie Wu and Jane Robbins with past members including Felicia Fang, Denise Cheung, Hannah Lai, Pinna Wong, Vickie Li, Mitchell Mak, Kay Chan and Jessica Xia.   EAC initiatives over the past few years include workshops for discipline teachers on students’ writing problems, briefings for students to guide them on writing and speaking assignments, organising and co-organising conferences, publishing papers with discipline teachers and the development of a mobile app (Capstone Ninja) with language/writing/ speaking resources for students.   Well done to the EAC team - past and present - for their continued hard work. Their recognition is well-deserved.

Inscribe Issue 8

Humanity meets technology in Issue 8 of Inscribe. Issues of identity, relationships, and transformation are explored in these engaging works. Visit https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/inscribe/ for more.

Stand-up Comedy Workshop

Curious about comedy? Do you like telling jokes and stories? Understand and experience stand-up comedy in this interactive and engaging workshop. Learn the theory and techniques and then practice in a friendly environment. Workshop leader Abdul Tahhan is an ELC instructor who has performed stand-up comedy to diverse audiences.

Drama Video Viewing

The English Drama Club is hosting a viewing of their dramatic performance videos and sharing behind-the-scenes stories. These impressive, high-quality productions were created by PolyU students and filmed on campus. Join us at 17:30 in Room A305 on Tuesday 20 September. You will have the chance to enjoy engaging videos created by students that were filmed on campus, meet cast members and drama club leader,  learn the inspiration for these plays and hear stories from behind the scenes.

Join eLanguage 易語學 and improve your language skills

Would you like to get better grades in your assessments? Are you planning to take IELTS or Chinese language tests? Will you be applying for internships or jobs in the coming months? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, then eLanguage 易語學 is for you! Watch these 6 students to find more reasons to join eLanguage 易語學 now. eLanguage 易語學 provides you with language input and practice in both English and Chinese. You can find materials on writing essays, workplace English and Chinese, and general vocabulary to help you in your studies, your future employment and language tests.  During semester 1 you can also win fabulous prizes including tablets, bluetooth earphones and book vouchers by completing the activities in eLanguage 易語學. For more information and joining details, please look here: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/fh/news-and-events/news/2022/launch-of-polyu-elanguage/ Good luck with your studies and enjoy eLanguage 易語學!

English Competition

The English Competition is an opportunity for students to express themselves using their communicative abilities to share their insights and stories to the PolyU community. The inauguration year will invite video submissions to tell your PolyU Story. Visit https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/EnglishCompetition/ to learn more.

Launch of PolyU’s eLanguage 易語學

Launch of PolyU’s eLanguage 易語學 A new language learning eplatform created by FH is ready for students this semester. The eplatform, called eLanguage 易語學, has been created by colleagues in the CLC and ELC. Students are encouraged to join eLanguage 易語學 to improve their language proficiency in Chinese and English self-enrol instructions.pdf. The platform includes learning modules on writing essays, general vocabulary and workplace English and Chinese as well as an introduction to pinyin. The best performing students on eLanguage 易語學 will have the chance to win great prizes including tablets, bluetooth earphones and book vouchers. Find out more details in this video: https://youtu.be/Lea6tPytOks