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The Department of English cordially invites you to join our departmental seminar, Robot-Assisted Language Learning: A Meta-Analysis, to be organized on 26 September 2024 (Thursday). Date: 26 September 2024 (Thursday) Time: 1:45pm – 2:45pm Venue: Room A315, S H Ho Academic Building Speaker: Professor Timothy Teo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Registration: Complete the online registration form to reserve a seat. Available on a first-come-first-served basis….

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Funded by the Department of English, the Pitch Perfect! Competition is a new initiative targeted at all students enrolled in ENG3002 English for Professional Communication in academic year 2023-24. It is a pitch presentation competition that aims at showcasing students’ ability to deliver a persuasive and memorable business pitch as a group. Derived from a group assessment from the…

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Funded by the HSU Strategic Development Grant, we have conducted the Q and A session for the Finalists of the Edutainer Competition: UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2024 on 6 July (Saturday) at the Creative Humanities Hub for deciding the Champions! The Q and A session is followed immediately by the Award Presentation Ceremony and lunch catering, where the…

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The School of Humanities and Social Science held the Creative Humanities Fest on 1 June 2024. The First Folio, arguably the greatest work of English literature, contains 36 Shakespearean plays & 1,233 dramatic characters in 900 pages published 400 years ago. To join the worldwide celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, the Department of English at The Hang Seng…

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The Undergraduate and Postgraduate Conference 2024: On Language, Linguistics and Literature was held on 27 May 2024. Reading and communication, Virginia Woolf notes in The Common Reader, is less about knowledge acquisition than the delights and intimacy one finds in “extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province”. Our first UG-PG conference on Literature and Language accomplished this goal by…

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The English Department cordially invites you to join our departmental seminar, Using Teacher-supported Peer Feedback for Writing Improvement, to be organized on 18 April 2024 (Thursday). Date: 18 April 2024 (Thursday) Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm Venue: Room A315, S H Ho Academic Building Speaker: Dr Maggie Ma, Associate Professor of Department of English Registration: Complete this online form to reserve a seat. Available on a first-come-first-served basis….

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The English Department cordially invites you to join our departmental seminar, Generative artificial intelligence and language teaching and learning: What teachers and students need to know to use GenAI tools productively and ethically, to be organized on 11 April 2024 (Thursday). Date: 11 April 2024 (Thursday) Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm Venue: Lecture Hall CR002, Creative Humanities Hub Guest Speaker: Dr Benjamin Luke Moorhouse, Assistant…

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The English Department cordially invites you to join our departmental seminar, Happy people make people happy: Being honest or being positive? That is the online question, to be organized on 7 March 2024 (Thursday). Date: 7 March 2024 (Thursday) Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm Venue: Room A315, S H Ho Academic Building Registration: Complete this online form to reserve a seat. Available on a first-come-first-served basis. Remarks: 1…

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Dr Anna Tso, Head and Associate Professor of the Department of English, recently published an edited volume called Critical Reflections on ICT and Education with Wendy CHAN, Steven NG, Tiffany BAI, and Noble LO. Book description The book reflects on the transformative power of modern technology in education, examines how teachers are leveraging digital tools to improve student outcomes, and investigates…

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