English Across the Curriculum Team led by Dr Julia CHEN
(Dr Julia CHEN, Dr Grace LIM, Ms Christy CHAN, Ms Vicky MAN and
Dr Elza TSANG)
Recipient of 2022 UGC Teaching Award
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Category
Collaborative Teams
Affiliation at the time of the award
- Dr Julia CHEN
Director, Educational Development Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Dr Grace LIM
Teaching Fellow, English Language Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Ms Christy CHAN
Senior Tutor, Chan Feng Men-ling Chan Shuk-lin Language Centre, City University of Hong Kong - Ms Vicky MAN
Senior Lecturer, Language Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University - Dr Elza TSANG
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Language Education, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Award Citation
The English Across the Curriculum Team is led by Dr Julia Chen from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with Dr Grace Lim (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Ms Christy Chan (City University of Hong Kong), Ms Vicky Man (Hong Kong Baptist University), and Dr Elza Tsang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) as members. Over the past eight years, the Team has generated multiple innovative and effective strategies for developing students' academic literacy, including the deployment of multi-modal English Across the Curriculum resources and the mobile app "Capstone Ninja". The Team has successfully built a culture conducive to student-centred and interdisciplinary collaboration, thereby benefitting English teachers, discipline teachers, and their students in UGC-funded universities, and making a significant positive impact on students' English ability and learning experiences, as well as participating teachers' teaching capacity and pedagogical approaches across universities.
The Team exemplifies teaching excellence by addressing complex educational challenges with a clear vision and determination to improve students' language learning. Their proactive transformation of their vision into a purposeful mission offers a strategy for student-centred teaching enhancement. The Team shows a strong commitment to continuous professional development, and is actively engaged in disseminating their work and results through the scholarship of teaching and learning.
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