Learning English has always been a bittersweet journey for me. I did not really enjoy reading grammar books or writing countless letters to the editor(s) in secondary school, and so at the time I concluded that I did not like English. Fate, however, brought me to the School of English in HKU, and there English became something I never thought it to be — it… Read More
Our latest round of exam practice sessions have begun already, so download the timetable below to find the best session you can sign up for! Exam Practice Timetable Oct 2017 to Jan 2018… Read More
As an enthusiastic language learner myself, I do my best to learn from my own experiences in order to improve the way I teach English. Just the same as many students, I find that speaking in a foreign language is one of the largest obstacles to overcome, especially when I’m not living in an environment that can allow me to be totally immersed in the… Read More
I am passionately dedicated to finding new and innovative ways of engaging children in learning, primarily by treating them as co-creators of knowledge rather than as empty vessels in which facts and information are deposited, only to then be spent on examinations and never used again. In this way, I draw strongly from the critical pedagogy of the Brazilian educational theorist Paulo Freire (1921-1997), who saw learning as a… Read More
