PLaTE

The 6-week Teaching Practice of Year 3 students from ELED and CLED has just completed. Students came back to campus on 5 May 2012 for mentorship meeting. The TP mentorship scheme is designed to provide support and professional advice to Language Education students during their Teaching Practice in an e-environment, available at http://plate.fed.cuhk.edu.hk.  Fifteen experienced frontline teachers have regular meetings with their group in the blog-based Teaching Practice platform during the teaching practice period. They read lesson plans, respond to comments, provide guidance on reflections, stimulate discussion, conduct collaborative analysis of recorded lesson, and offer pastoral caring.

Great thanks to all mentors!

Two Drama Workshops were held on 18 February 2012 and 25 February 2012. A total of 40 participants took part. Our LED graduate, Mr. Alex Shung, led the participants through the introduction of drama conventions, process drama, and drama in ELT. The workshops were very well-received by the participants.

Since 2008, NETTER has published 11 regular issues and 2 special issues. The latest Special Issue on Guangzhou 2011 documented the reflections from the Chairman of the Organising Committee and the participants who joined the Guangzhou Study Tour at the end of Decemeber 2011.  (Please go to: http://plate.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/netter.)  The  sharing session of the study tour was successfully held on 20 January 2012. We look forward to organising more similar educational activities and experiential learning for the pre-service English teachers in the future!

Seasons in the Sun: study tour 2011 has been successfully held from 27 December 2011 to 30 December 2011. A delegate of 27 students, graduates and faculty staff members went to the English School attached to Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), English Research Centre of GDUFS, and Teaching and Research Institute in Guangzhou to observe English teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools, and to attend talks by scholars and officials. Reflections were uploaded to http://plate.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/netter.

In this latest issue about summer, we have:

Reflections on teacher-student relationship:

        Passion of Teaching by Carly CHOW, ELED Year 4

Travel experience sharing:

        Spain – A Lesson on Love and Life by Heidi HO, ELED Year 5

       The Familiar in the Unfamiliar  by Jeff CHONG, ELED Year 4

       Rethinking Freedom by Angus LEUNG, ELED Year 2

Reflections on summer internship:

       When an Education Major works in CCTV by Ivy CHAN, ELED Year 4

       Stepping into one’s flat by Emily CHAN, ELED Year 2

Reflections on summer activities:

        A Night in the Orientation Camp by Karen CHAN, ELED Year 2

        Time to Get Ready – The Show Has Just Started by Cherry HUNG, ELED Year 2

Feel free to give your comments after reading. More importantly, your contributions to the next issue are most welcome! Please visit us http://plate.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/netter

Title:           Paraphrasing through Reading and Responding

Speaker:    Dr. Marshall Warren YIN (HKUST)

Date:           October 24, 2011 (Monday)

Time:          3:30– 5:00 pm

Venue:        OEM1018, 10/F, OEN Hall (Main), Ho Sin Hang Campus, HKBU

For details, please visit:

http://lc.hkbu.edu.hk/doc/promotion/20111024_lc_english_seminar.pdf

Campus map is available at the following link:

http://lc.hkbu.edu.hk/doc/seminar/hkbu_oem1018.pdf

Title:           Assessing Writing in Second Language: Trend in Research and Pedagogy

Speaker:    Professor Alister CUMMING

Date:           11 October 2011, Tuesday

Time:          4:30 – 6:00 pm

Venue:        Room BC201, Core B, Podium Level, PolyU campus

Details can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/hkpolyuengl

二零一一年博喻迎新日已在九月十四日晚上於信和樓618室舉行。當晚共有十位同學出席，編委安排了多個活動讓出席同學了解博喻編委的工作，大家都十分投入。另外，當晚招募了六位同學加入成為本學年的臨時編委，他們將參與新一期的刊號，嘗試體驗博喻編委的工作。博喻感謝顧問老師吳茂源博士、編委及同學的出席。

The 3rd Annual PLaTE Meeting was  held successfully on 29th August, 2011! Current members and ex-officio members from ETENet, CTENet, 博喻 and Netter attended the meeting. Progress and future plans of PLaTE were presented and discussed. The 3rd Annual PLaTE meeting ended with a happy dinner afterwards. Prof. Eunice Tang thanked all the PLaTE members, especially alumni, for their support! Check out the photos of the event below!

Speaker: Professor Michal Paradowski from University of Warsaw, Poland 

Topic: To Grammar or not

Date: September 21, 2011 (Wednesday)

Venue: OEM906, 9/F, OEN Hall (Main), Ho Sin Hang Campus, HKBU