Professor Kathleen Ahrens, Director of RCPCE, launched a new tool recently to assist teachers in Hong Kong to teach the English language to Primary One to Primary Six students. This resource is designed to teach English with ten selected children’s picture books that incorporate the context of Hong Kong daily life.
This resource is part of the project titled “Children’s Literature in English Language Teaching for Primary Students in Hong Kong” with Professor Kathleen Ahrens from the Department of English at PolyU as Principal Investigator, Dr Jackie Fung King Lee from The Education University of Hong Kong as Co-Investigator, and Dr Marija Todorova as Postdoctoral Fellow.
The project was funded by the Language Fund under Research and Development Projects 2018-19 of the Standing Committee on Language Education and Research, Hong Kong SAR.
The research team has developed a Teacher’s Resources pack for the ten children’s books with (i) a Unit Lesson Plan with ten lessons; (ii) ten separate 30-minute lessons for each book; and (iii) a video interview with the author. The activities in the Teacher’s Resources pack are based on a communicative approach to teaching English as a second language and cover all four language skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
For more information about the project, please visit the CLELT website.
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