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Learning English with Little Leaf: Exploring an Online Interactive Platform for Primary English
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....
A New Generation of e-Resources Integration: A Schoolwide Approach
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...
More Than Just a Score: Feedback Practices Online and Offline
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 for Rapport Building, reflection and peer Assessment
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...
Microlearning Activities to Enhance Online and Blended Teaching and Learning
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...
Motivating Students in the Language Classroom Through e-Learning
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...
Using Perusall for Social Annotation in the Literature
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: Facilitating Development of Global Communication and Language Enhancement Skills
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...
“Writing Your Life”: Improving Storytelling and Classroom Community, F2F and/or Online
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...
Tracing the Development of EFL Teachers’ Intentions to Use Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
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...
Developing an App with AR and VR: Young Learners’ Vocabulary Learning in a Mobile Learning Environment
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...
Stepping into Virtual Endeavours: Designing Immersive and Engaging Virtual Field Trips with Online Resources
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...
YoTeach! What Are Some New e-Tools We Can Use to Enhance Active Learning in Our Classes?
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...
CARE BOOKS: Enhancing Interactive Reading with Innovative e-Books
Both traditional print books and online e-books have advantages and disadvantages for primary students' English learning. By combining the advantages of print books and online e-books, the CARE book concept supports young English learners with a new and rich reader...
Storytelling Online with Young English Learners
In this presentation, Ms Jessica Lee, a fellow EdUHK Dept of ELE lecturer, shares the experience of a Service Learning Course she taught via an Online Storytelling Program. Through the program, local primary students were expected to engage in online storytelling...
Integrating Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) into the Classroom
IDLE is Informal Digital Learning of English and is introduced in this talk by our EdUHK Dept of ELE colleague, Dr Ju Lee. In his sharing about his IDLE project, Dr Lee shares his experience of promoting self-guided learning of English via e-learning outside of the...
Learning Together: IT-enhanced Collaboration and Creative Reading Activities
In this experience-sharing presentation, Mr Timothy Lim and Mr Ashok Daswani, secondary English teachers from St Stephen’s College, introduce useful Microsoft apps as learning management systems, including SharePoint, OneNote and Teams. In addition, they explain how...
Ways of Motivating & Engaging Low Achievers in Junior Secondary in Online Lessons
In their joint presentation, Ms Suzanne Suen and Mr Frank Ip, English teachers from Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Kwok Yat Wai College will discuss their adoption of effective e-resources practices for low achieving students. They touch on topics such as: choice and use...