Attachment Programme
Unlocking Voices: The Science and Secrets of Speech
Discover how speech and accents reveal more than just words! This talk introduces the basics of speech production, the diversity of English accents, and how forensic phonetics helps solve crimes— featuring real cases. Learn how experts use voices to uncover clues and support investigations.
AI Superpowers for Smarter Learning: A Fun Introduction for Future PolyU Students
Can I Earn Money just by Talking? Online Markets for Language Teaching
This talk will discuss how digital platforms are creating opportunities to earn money by teaching languages online. Using interactive exercises, the talk will provide practical insights into digital markets for English, Mandarin, and Cantonese teaching.
What can you Learn in our European Studies and Spanish Minors?
Currently, we offer a Minor in European Studies and another one in Spanish. The Spanish one will allow you to learn the language and provide you with opportunities to experience culture and language, both in Hong Kong and abroad. The European Studies Minor will allow you to study French, Spanish or German and to learn more about Europe in general, its history, linguistics, culture, art, etc. Come to learn more about the Minors!
The Significance of History in Chinese Culture
Discovering the History and Lives of Women in Ancient China through Pictorial and Video Materials and Historical Texts
Applying a gender perspective to further review Chinese History has become more and more evident in recent scholarship. This lecture provides important perspective about re-evaluation of social status of women from Chinese history to contemporary lives. Participants will be able to study different aspects concerning the lifestyle of traditional Chinese women and how women in Imperial China showcase their agency in everyday life. This lecture will be aided by presentation of pictorial and video materials, and historical texts.
Speech and Language Sciences Lab visit
Have you ever wondered how language works and how scientists study it? Join us in the Speech and Language Sciences Lab for a behind-the-scenes look at cutting-edge linguistic research! You can record your voice in a sound-proof booth, visualize its sound waves and measure data like frequency and duration. You can learn about eye-tracking technology which records eye movements during language tasks and reveals how we process words, sentence, and meaning. You can also see an electroencephalograph which captures the electrical signals produced by brain activity and learn what such data can inform us about language production and comprehension.
Speech Therapy Unit Tour Fun with Communication Sciences and Disorders
Can we use our linguistic knowledge to help people – especially children and adults who have problems with understanding or producing a language? Yes! Speech therapists are language and allied health professionals who work with clients of all ages with speech, language, or swallowing disorders. STU’s professional team does not only provides clinical services to the community, but also trains speech therapy students. In this visit to the STU, students will see what a speech therapy clinic is like and learn more about what speech therapists do.
Who wants to Trick the Chatbot? Finding the Weak Points of ChatGPT and Friends
The organizing team will show the students some examples on how to prompt a Large Language Model (ChatGPT, LLaMA-2, Qwen etc.) in either English and Chinese to tackle simple Natural Language Processing tasks, such as grammatical error correction or sentiment analysis. Then, they will be invited to think about possible weak points of modern AI in handling human language, and challenged to find examples of phenomena in language that are difficult for them to handle (examples might be metaphors, irony, idioms and other cases of figurative speech, or context-sensitive language).
Learning Korean Numbers through Korean Folk Games
Students will learn two types of Korean number systems and how to count items in Korean through two Korean folk games: “Moving Beans with Chopsticks” and “Gonggi Play”. In the bean moving game, students transfer beans using Korean metal chopsticks. The Gonggi play is making various combination of throwing five jackstones called Gonggi. Participants will be able to learn the Korean number systems in an engaging and amusing way.
