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Beyond Admission Scores: understanding academic English readiness in Hong Kong universities
Room AG311, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Friday, 27 March 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
This workshop will explore how diagnostic language assessment can provide clearer information about students’ academic language readiness and support programme-level decision making. It will feature contributions from the CEO of Password, academic experts involved in test development, and university partnership leaders.
Room AG311, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Friday, 27 March 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
This workshop will explore how diagnostic language assessment can provide clearer information about students’ academic language readiness and support programme-level decision making. It will feature contributions from the CEO of Password, academic experts involved in test development, and university partnership leaders.
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PROJECTS
Project funding start and end date: March 2021 - June 2023
STiLE is a UGC-funded Inter-Institutional Collaborative Activity (IICA) project, whose active development is overseen by 5 UGC funded language centres in Hong Kong. This multimedia platform was motivated by a desire to provide more peer-reviewed outlets for language education...
An initiative, led by the Center of Language Education at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, to compile a curated list of journals and other publications that welcome scholarship outputs from language teacher-practitioners.
In education, the dissemination of knowledge and best practices is pivotal to the growth and evolution of...
Project funding start and end date: Aug 2021 to Mar 2023
Email has been a common and important communication channel between students and instructors in higher education since the 21st century. However, the limited exposure to and proper instructions on email writing and a second language learning environment added hurdles for our students to...
Project funding start and end date: September 2017 – July 2021
Mastering the Technical Vocabulary of STEM is a UGC-funded project that helps students of science and technology to learn and correctly use technical vocabulary, in both written and spoken English. In university language courses, it is often assumed that students do not require...
Project funding start and end date: January 2012 – January 2016
The ICOSA project was a collaboration between the language centres of five tertiary institutions in Hong Kong, in which the institutions shared existing online interactive language learning materials and produced more materials that were shown to be needed by a collaborative...
Sounds introduces how to pronounce individual sounds in English in 10 short lessons. Learn about the vowels and the consonants through interactive exercises and short videos. By the end of the10 lessons learners should be able to, recognise the phonemic symbols of English, recognise the sounds of English, tell the difference between these...
The PolyU IELTS site provides tips and practice for the four papers of the IELTS exam. The materials have been specifically developed to provide support for students who are preparing to take the IELTS test. The site includes instructional videos, sample videos, interactive exercises, and sample papers so that students can have a complete...
The PolyU Referencing Guides include detailed information to the four most common referencing styles used in HK universities. They are written to help you become familiar with academic referencing conventions and to reference your work correctly. The four styles, including APA, Harvard, IEEE and Vancouver are regularly updated so that students...
Inscribe: A Journal of Undergraduate Writing in Asia is a refereed electronic journal which publishes writing by PolyU undergraduate students from all disciplines. By showcasing polished and professionally written work, the journal allows students to experience an academic publishing environment which provides a platform to develop their...
The Teachers’ Lift is a teacher-initiated and teacher-produced podcast designed to be a comfortable space to chat about teaching. This cross institutional initiative, run by colleagues from the language centres at PolyU, HKU and HKUST, has regular episodes throughout the teaching semester. Past episodes have come from instructional designers,...
The ELC’s PolyU YouTube channel has over three million views and 450 videos on all aspects of study at university. Find the video to match your needs on the ELC's YouTube channel. The channel features a variety of videos designed to help English language learners improve their skills. The channel includes lessons on grammar, vocabulary,...
Project funding start and end date: July 2017 – Mar 2019
Over the years, many scholars have conducted various studies on wrongly written characters. However, the discussion mostly starts from the traditional perspective of phonetics and meanings, and seldom discusses it in depth from the aspects of style and context. "Professional texts"...
Project funding start and end date: June 2020-Oct 2021
Cantonese is the most commonly spoken language in Hong Kong. By learning Cantonese and understanding its daily expressions, students from around the world coming to Hong Kong can cope with everyday communication situations and integrate into society more successfully. In view of this, we...
Project funding start and end date: July 2017 – Mar 2019
According to teachers' observations during classes, more and more students become less aware of their pronunciation. They often have some incorrect pronunciations or lazy pronunciations. For example, pronounce “講解”(explain) as“趕解” (not differentiating between /n/ and...
Project funding start and end date: March 2021 - June 2023
STiLE is a UGC-funded Inter-Institutional Collaborative Activity (IICA) project, whose active development is overseen by 5 UGC funded language centres in Hong Kong. This multimedia platform was motivated by a desire to provide more peer-reviewed outlets for language education...
An initiative, led by the Center of Language Education at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, to compile a curated list of journals and other publications that welcome scholarship outputs from language teacher-practitioners.
In education, the dissemination of knowledge and best practices is pivotal to the growth and evolution of...
Project funding start and end date: Aug 2021 to Mar 2023
Email has been a common and important communication channel between students and instructors in higher education since the 21st century. However, the limited exposure to and proper instructions on email writing and a second language learning environment added hurdles for our students to...
Project funding start and end date: September 2017 – July 2021
Mastering the Technical Vocabulary of STEM is a UGC-funded project that helps students of science and technology to learn and correctly use technical vocabulary, in both written and spoken English. In university language courses, it is often assumed that students do not require...
Project funding start and end date: January 2012 – January 2016
The ICOSA project was a collaboration between the language centres of five tertiary institutions in Hong Kong, in which the institutions shared existing online interactive language learning materials and produced more materials that were shown to be needed by a collaborative...
Sounds introduces how to pronounce individual sounds in English in 10 short lessons. Learn about the vowels and the consonants through interactive exercises and short videos. By the end of the10 lessons learners should be able to, recognise the phonemic symbols of English, recognise the sounds of English, tell the difference between these...
The PolyU IELTS site provides tips and practice for the four papers of the IELTS exam. The materials have been specifically developed to provide support for students who are preparing to take the IELTS test. The site includes instructional videos, sample videos, interactive exercises, and sample papers so that students can have a complete...
The PolyU Referencing Guides include detailed information to the four most common referencing styles used in HK universities. They are written to help you become familiar with academic referencing conventions and to reference your work correctly. The four styles, including APA, Harvard, IEEE and Vancouver are regularly updated so that students...
Inscribe: A Journal of Undergraduate Writing in Asia is a refereed electronic journal which publishes writing by PolyU undergraduate students from all disciplines. By showcasing polished and professionally written work, the journal allows students to experience an academic publishing environment which provides a platform to develop their...
The Teachers’ Lift is a teacher-initiated and teacher-produced podcast designed to be a comfortable space to chat about teaching. This cross institutional initiative, run by colleagues from the language centres at PolyU, HKU and HKUST, has regular episodes throughout the teaching semester. Past episodes have come from instructional designers,...
The ELC’s PolyU YouTube channel has over three million views and 450 videos on all aspects of study at university. Find the video to match your needs on the ELC's YouTube channel. The channel features a variety of videos designed to help English language learners improve their skills. The channel includes lessons on grammar, vocabulary,...
Project funding start and end date: July 2017 – Mar 2019
Over the years, many scholars have conducted various studies on wrongly written characters. However, the discussion mostly starts from the traditional perspective of phonetics and meanings, and seldom discusses it in depth from the aspects of style and context. "Professional texts"...
Project funding start and end date: June 2020-Oct 2021
Cantonese is the most commonly spoken language in Hong Kong. By learning Cantonese and understanding its daily expressions, students from around the world coming to Hong Kong can cope with everyday communication situations and integrate into society more successfully. In view of this, we...
Project funding start and end date: July 2017 – Mar 2019
According to teachers' observations during classes, more and more students become less aware of their pronunciation. They often have some incorrect pronunciations or lazy pronunciations. For example, pronounce “講解”(explain) as“趕解” (not differentiating between /n/ and...