School of Cantonese Studies 2021

Issue August 2021 | News Updates

The Second International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning 2021

Following the success of the 2019 Inaugural International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning, the Department of English Language Education held “The 2nd International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning” from 19 to 20 June 2021 online. The theme this year was “language-in-education policy and practice in the digital era”, aiming to explore how technology impacted policy, curriculum, and pedagogy in language education and how it would impact the future of language policy and practice and our society. The conference featured prominent leading scholars in the fields, including Professor Judith Green (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA), Professor Angel Lin (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Professor Li Wei (University College London, UK), Professor Ernesto Macaro (University of Oxford, UK) and Professor Hayo Reinders (Anaheim University, USA). Lively discussions then continued across five parallel sessions and 90 paper presentations contributed by 102 researchers and teachers from Asia, Australia, Europe and North America.

Issue August 2021 | News Updates

Public Lecture Series 2021

The Department of English Language Education organised the Public Lecture Series, including 10 lecture topics to a wide audience of teachers and the general public whose interest spanned both English language learning and the general topic of language. The series was held virtually on five Saturday mornings in January and February 2021 on Zoom and streamed live via YouTube. More than 1,000 people joined these five mornings to discuss topics including Chinglish, CLIL, and Language policy.

Issue August 2021 | News Updates

Departmental Webinars

Throughout the academic year, the Department of English Language Education had maintained the knowledge exchange between scholars in different parts of the world, discussing a variety of topics. In 2021, ELE organised three webinars, inviting speakers from local universities to universities in other countries such as Canada and USA, with a wide range of topics from research paradigm to Task Anxiety to Language Policy. Since adapting the online format of Zoom, ELE has seen an increase of participants who might otherwise be unable to attend the seminar due to geographical challenges in previous years, with a few in particular that attracted audience of more than 100.