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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...