Programme Schedule

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Time Y301 Y302 Y303 A302
08:45
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09:15
Registration      
09:15
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09:30
Welcome      
09:30
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10:00
Invited Speaker C. K. Wan - NSS English Language Education Curriculum and Assessment: Blind Men and An Elephant!      
10:00
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10:30
Invited Speaker Cameron Smart - HKDSE English Language Examination: Challenges and Opportunities      
10:30
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11:00

Coffee

11:00
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11:40
Eva Lui - A possible language profile of S6 school leavers in 2012 Miranda Legg - Conceptualizing a new English for General Academic Purposes Course   Juliana Chau, Peggy Lui - From here to the new curriculum through ePortfolio-mediated pedagogy
11:45
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12:25
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren - Curricular poetics: General education and viral writing Lai Kun TSE, Dora PAO, Wai Lan TSANG - How ESP can we get in the new curriculum? Nigel Huckstep, Eva Lui, Emma Bruce, Roxanne Wong - Investigating undergraduates' language needs - a comprehensive needs analysis  
12:25
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14:00

Lunch

Time Y301 Y302 Y303 A302
14:00
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14:40
Nigel Bruce - Developing English for academic literacies for the 4-year curriculum: Extending individualised support Natalie Fong - Building Connections Between Language Needs and Subject Knowledge: A Pilot of an English in the Discipline Course in the University of Hong Kong Linda Mak, Marshall Warren Yin - Catering for the Needs of International Students from 2010  
14:45
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15:25
Oliver CHAN, Hei Tao CHAN, Cissy LI - Evaluation of MyAccess for Hong Kong Tertiary Students Yvonne Loong, L K Tse, Lisa Cheung - English in Dentistry: Challenges in assessment of writing Alan Urmston, Felicia Fang, Carrie Tsang, Jane Lockwood, Michelle Raquel, Christine Shirley - Tracking Students' Progress in English under the Four-year Curriculum: The TELT Project  
15:25
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15:50

Tea

15:50
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16:30
Elaine Martyn, Ken Lau, Joanna Lee, Lillian Wong - English in the Discipline: Meeting Diverse Needs in Large Faculties Roxanne Wong, Nigel Huckstep, Eva Lui, Emma Bruce - A bottom-up approach in developing curriculum outcomes and assessment criteria Tess Hogue - Strategies for Confident Conversations and Presentations- An experiential learning approach  
16:30
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17:30
Round-table - The challenges of the 4-year curriculum for ELCs in Hong Kong