One of the objectives of the General Education programme is to develop students’ critical thinking abilities. In this workshop, ELC Senior Instructor, Averil Bolster presented the importance of asking questions to generate students’ critical thinking. It is also important to train students to be able to ask good questions. Thought-provoking […]
A group of students joined the ELC semester event of taking photos around the campus on November 13, 2013. Students enjoyed walking around to take pictures of the UM campus and discovered spots with spectacular views of Macau. Despite the gloomy weather, the pictures display the beauty of the campus […]
Last week, the ELC has hosted its 9th English Language Festival. The Festival took place over 3 days from Wednesday, November 6 to Friday, November 8 and showcased academic and extra-curricular activities with the aim of promoting English skills awareness and usage around campus. Two guest speakers in the TESOL […]
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Last Wednesday the English Language Center celebrated Halloween on-campus by hosting a pumpkin carving event outside the S.T.D.M auditorium. 20 students from the UM community competed to win 3 prizes for their pumpkin carving skills. First prize winner, Joel, won the best overall pumpkin carving first prize award for his […]
The English Language Centre (ELC) organizes a number of semester events for students to explore English in different contexts, and one of them is the Bowling Night at the Macau Dome on October 22, 2013. Sponsored by the ELC, students not only enjoyed bowling but also learnt some technical bowling […]
Last Wednesday the first “Pacific Coffee Break and Study” met in the Pacific Coffee shop on campus. ELC teachers Marie Webb and Kerry Pusey, who are hosting some of the ELC Fall 2013 Semester Events, met with 13 students that attended the first meeting. Snacks and good stories were shared […]
For the second ELC Fall Event of the semester, English Teaching Fellows Marie Webb and Kerry Pusey led a Mexican cooking demonstration last Wednesday, October 9, 2013, which proved to be a fun-filled activity for all in attendance. The activity included several focal points, including background information about Mexico, California […]
On Tuesday, October 8th from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. ELC teacher Dan Burge (pictured above with UMAC students) hosted “Big Two Game Night” in ILG120 as part of the ELC Fall 2013 Events. During the event, participants were encouraged to use English in a natural setting while playing Big Two. […]
Dr. Antony Kunnan, language assessment expert, gave a talk on the ethics, standards, and practices of conducting second language assessment on Wednesday, October 16, 2013. Sponsored by the ELC, the event also drew interest from FED English Education students. During the lecture, Dr. Kunnan discussed the complexities involved in assessment […]
On September 24 and 25, 2013, the English Language Centre (ELC) joined hands with third and fourth-year English Education majors in the Faculty of Education to launch the first seminar on ‘Experiential Learning’ , or learning by doing. This semester 19 FED students will serve as Experiential Learners as part […]
Ryan Hunter, ELC Testing and Language Laboratory Supervisor and Technology Advisor, continues to conduct training sessions to familiarize the faculty with the new features and functions of Moodle 2.5 and to aid them in the transition from the old 1.9 version. On Wednesday, 15 September, Ryan covered the use of […]
