Try out the new Fashion and Textiles Materials

Do you know the names of different types of clothing? Yes, you know shirt, trousers and shoes, but how about a safari suit, a sailor collar and loafers? Do you know what they look like? Find the answers to these and much, much more in our newly designed website for vocabulary related to Fashion and Textiles. Equip yourself for new challenges by expanding your vocabulary! 

ELC Reading Club Book Exchange

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Supporting students to use AI ethically and effectively in academic writing

Join us for a talk by Dr Ursula Wingate, Professor of Language Education at King’s College London. In the talk, Dr Wingate will cover how students are currently using machine translation tools, including ChatGPT to improve their writing skills. She will then consider students' perspectives on the use of AI before covering ethical use of AI.  Registration Link Supporting students to use AI ethically and effectively in academic writing Drawing on the concept of translanguaging and research evidence from the Chinese higher education context, I will begin by discussing the affordances of machine translation for facilitating the various stages of text composition. My talk will then focus on an ongoing pedagogical intervention funded by the King’s College Teaching Fund. For this project, we recruited student collaborators from two BA and two MA programmes to support us with the project management, the delivery and analysis of focus group discussions, as well as the design, delivery and evaluation of programme-specific workshops on the use of AI in academic writing. The four focus group discussions revealed that most students regularly use ChatGPT in addition to an extensive range of other freely available tools such as machine translation, citation generators, automated paraphrasers, and digital writing assistants. However, whilst many participants acknowledged the helpfulness of these tools in assisting with the planning and revision of their texts, there was a considerable presence of negative perceptions. These ranged from uncertainty about academic conduct policies, ethical concerns as well as the fear of compromising autonomy and losing one’s authorial voice.  On the basis of these findings, the workshops address ethical issues and pitfalls of using AI tools. In addition, they aim at improving social justice by levelling the linguistic playing field for non-native speakers of English as well as enabling digitally less experienced students to use the most effective tools for the enhancement of their texts. The content of one of these workshops will be presented in this talk.

ELC Drama Club - 2024 Performance - 2:22 A Ghost Story!

ELC Drama Club - 2024 performance - 2:22 A Ghost Story! Dates: 15 March 2024 (Fri) and 16 March 2024 (Sat) Time: 6:00pm – 7:30 pm Venue: CHIANG CHEN STUDIO THEATRE (Ground Floor Core A) Trailer: https://youtu.be/AeW4U1rbk58 Tickets: FREE for staff! (please register your attendance via the link) https://form.everestwebdeals.co/?form=c25b3b67bc6bfd7ab4574bb61d8caa4d

Have you tried the ELC's VR Space yet?

Explore the ELC's VR Space in Room A305a! Go to Room A305 and find the VR Space on the left between the entrance and the counter. We have a range of different experiences for you to try out including: - Virtual Becomes Reality: A Stanford VR Experience This will give you a good overview of how to use the equipment. - Mona Lisa Beyond the Glass Go to the Louvre Museum in Paris and experience Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting. - Becoming Homeless: A Human Experience Interact with your environment to attempt to save your home and to protect yourself and your belongings as you walk in another’s shoes - The Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience A virtual underwater ecosystem to allow you to observe firsthand what rocky reefs are expected to look like. - COLOSSE A real-time virtual reality storytelling experience And many more!

Join the ELC IELTS Workshops

Join the ELC IELTS Workshops. Make sure you know what to do to score high! Every Wednesday at 2:30pm in CILL, Room A305. Register here: https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/booking/main.php

English Language Centre's 25th Anniversary Showcase!!!

Make a date in your diary!!! Don’t miss this unique event and kick off the new semester with a celebration of what makes the ELC so special! Click here for more information.

Watch the ELC's new video!

What has the ELC ever done for us? New video from the ELC - Watch here!

Writing Café@PolyU - Join Us as a Mentee

Do not miss out on this unique opportunity. Join the Writing Café@PolyU TODAY and empower your writing skills! Click here for more information.

Join ELC CILL Workshops!

Join the ELC CILL Workshops and improve your language skills! AI for University Language Support Getting a Job with AI Improve your Grammar! Find out more here. Register here.