The Centre for English Language Communication (CELC) held its sixth Symposium online, from 30-31 May 2022. Symposium 2022 gathered 144 researchers and educators from 14 countries in the pursuit of scholarly dialogue on the theme TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION IN A CHANGING LANDSCAPE: INNOVATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES. This year’s theme built upon many of our […]
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Selected Papers from the 6th CELC Symposium for English Language Teachers Editorial Committee: Mark Brooke, Shenfa Zhu, Anuradha Ramanujan, Tetyana Smotrova, Sylvia Sim First published: November 2022 Click to view a full listing of the symposium abstracts: ABSTRACTS Click to view the PDF version: 6th CELC Symposium Proceedings Foreword LEE Kooi Cheng Keynote addresses Digital […]
IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE WRITING SUPPORT THROUGH TRAINED PEER TUTORS IN A WRITING AND COMMUNICATION HUB
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 […]
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, […]
In celebration of the 10th year of the University Town Writing Programme (UTWP)
The I&E Webinar Series is a platform to discuss and share with the members of the I&E teaching team our thoughts and reflections on teaching scholarly writing in the University Town Writing Programme. The UTWP celebrates its 10th year in AY2020-21 and it is but fitting for us to take stock and talk about (1) […]
Towards Facilitating the Transfer of Academic Communication Skills, Radhika Jaidev
Radhika Jaidev is the Director of the Centre for Communication Skills (CCS) at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). She manages the centre and teaches academic and technical writing as well as presentation skills to undergraduate students. She also drives the university’s Communication Across the Curriculum (CAC) instruction, consultation and assessment. In keeping with […]