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The Learning English with Little Leaf (LELL) platform is an adaptive platform that enables students to learn English online, in classroom settings and even independently. The content is designed to be relevant, fun and flexible to meet primary learners changing needs....

In this presentation, Ms Fiona Yung would share how she adopted a school-wide approach to effective IT integration and enhancement during the pandemic. In the pre-pandemic period, Ms Yung was part of a school-wide committee to encourage more online teaching and...

Giving feedback on students’ work is definitely worthwhile, provided that students could act upon teachers’ suggestions and improve. In an online or mixed-mode teaching environment, however, a big question mark lingers: have our students really taken a good look at...

Flipgrid (now Flip) is a video-based discussion community that helps teachers engage every student in the classroom online with videos. To get started, teachers can create a topic as an assignment and model the assignment by recording a video. Students who are given...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced English language teachers worldwide to create synchronous and asynchronous student-centred learning environments. The recent change in the educational landscape and advances in technology have prompted the use of bite-sized chunks of...

It is believed that students learn best when they are motivated. This is especially true for English language learning in e-classrooms at the university. Therefore, elevating students’ learning motivation has been one of the most prioritized goals for language...

Social annotation has been proven to improve students’ critical thinking and reading comprehension abilities. Moreover, social annotation can increase students’ interest in reading and positive feelings towards texts. In this session, Dr Bidisha Banerjee would...

Virtual exchange allows students to interact with other students from around the world without leaving Hong Kong. During the pandemic, our knowledge of the benefits of virtual exchange programs expanded greatly. The biggest advantage of virtual exchange is its...

Creating a sense of community in the classroom is correlated to more active student participation, engagement, retention of learning (Stubb, J., Pyhalto, K., & Lonka K., 2011). Classroom community also creates affective advantages among students, such as...

Digital storytelling (DTS) has been shown to have several affective (e.g., L2 enjoyment), cognitive (e.g., reading comprehension), and linguistic benefits (e.g., vocabulary knowledge) for L2 learners. However, to design locally appropriate and pedagogically effective...

Despite studies on the design and development of argument reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) apps for learning are on the rise, the majority of studies have developed the apps for enhancing students’ learning motivation and engagement in higher education for...

Virtual Field Trips (VFTs) guide students to explore the world without leaving the classroom. The growing functions of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) add to the variety of digital sources that can be used in VFTs, and help to create more realistic...

In this talk, Dr Ting Sze Thou Fridolin would discuss what active learning is and how it improves student learning outcomes. Then, he would introduce the e-tools YoTeach!, Badaboom and the Cell game that would help enhance active learning in your face-to-face, online...