Doreen TAN Sarah Priya SOMARAJAN Amelyn Anne THOMPSON Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND The Writing and Communication Hub (WCH) by the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC) is created to help students from any discipline improve and increase their confidence in their […]
Month: October 2022
Video, Reflective Practice and Teacher Education, Steve Mann
This talk is aimed at teacher educators who are looking to increase their awareness of the way that digital video can be prioritized and exploited in language teacher education. It has recently been argued that we have reached a ‘tipping point’, where views and practices are changing as we innovate with and adapt to improved capabilities […]
A Note on ‘Teaching Philosophies’
Zhou Ziqian Jan is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication I received an MA (Philosophy and Politics) from the University of Edinburgh, an MPhil (Philosophy) and a PhD (Philosophy) from University College London. I serve on the General Education Committee (Provost’s Office), CELC’s Faculty Teaching Excellence Committee (FTEC), the Faculty of Arts […]
REFLEXIVITY AND SCHOLARSHIP: TO WHAT ENDS DO WE UNDERTAKE SCHOLARSHIP? Alex Ding
One of the major issues within EAP and similar fields is the purpose(s) of scholarship for and by practitioners. Not only is there resistance within the field to practitioner scholarship, but there are also conflicting discourses around the purposes of scholarship. One such view holds that scholarship must be directly related to student education, learning, […]