The project is curated by Dr.Michelle Chan. The exhibition was partially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. UGC/FDS15/H19/23).

Date: 6 - 18 November. 2024
Time: 12:30 - 7:30pm
Venue: Parallel Space, 202 Tai Nan Street, Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong

Noon Research Forum
Time: 12:00 – 14:00
Date: 30 October 2024
Venue: Language Center RLG104
Speakers: Dr. Michelle Chan, Dr. Marjorie Cheung, Miss Yolanda Guan & Miss Jamie Tse

Lunchtime Research Seminar
Time: 12:00 – 14:00
Date: 16 September 2024
Venue: Language Center RLG104
Speakers: Dr. Rebekah Bale, Dr. Jenny Wan, and Dr. Thomas Chan

Students: Stephy Kan, Clement Su

Date: 18 April, 2024
Time: 10:30am -12:00pm
Venue: Room 105, Main Building
Guest Speaker: Dr. LIU Meng

MPhil Student Yin Hao Anna Presents at 2nd International Conference on Translation and Cultural Sustainability

Date: April 17th-19th
Venue: University of Salamanca, Spain

Date: 16 April, 2024
Time: 11:50am - 1:00pm
Venue: LG120, Academic Building

Latest Developments in Secondary Education: Chinese, English, History, and Citizenship and Social Development Curricula and Interview Preparation
「介紹最新中學語文、人文及社會科課程發展及面試準備」講座

Date: Friday 12 April 2024
Time：2:45-5:15
Place: Research Complex RLG101

Co - organized by HKBU CIE, HKSYU, KIMEP University (Kazakhstan)
Date: 29 March, 2024
Time: 12-4pm (HK Time); 9am - 1pm (Almaty Time)
Venue: Zoom

Theme: Diversity

Date: 16 March, 2024
Time: 9:45am - 4:30pm
Venue: Conference Hall (RLG 208)

Workshop - Decode the IELTS Listening Test: Essential Skills and Techniques

Date: Tuesday, 6 February 2024

Time: 2:00-4:00 pm

Venue: RM102, Main Building

Speaker: Dr. Chris Kwan

Online Registration: https://forms.gle/hc322UYcXDWTuPdS9

Zoom Link: https://hksyu.zoom.us/j/6933657197

Zoom Meeting ID: 693 365 7197

Workshop - Practical Tips for Using Chatgpt to Improve English Writing

Date: Friday, 2 February 2024

Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Venue: RM115, Main Building

Speaker: Dr. Ivy Wong

Online Registration: https://forms.gle/X7btLMFPkUgt6Jty6

Zoom Link: https://hksyu.zoom.us/j/6933657197

Zoom ID: ID: 693 365 7197

Workshop - From Borrowed Words to Original Ideas: Your Guide to Academic Authenticity

Date: Thursday, 1 February 2024

Time: 4:00- 5:30 pm

Venue: RM113, Main Building

Speaker: Dr.Grace Leung

Online Registration: https://forms.gle/CHKskaj1USHY27Ez9

Zoom Link: https://hksyu.zoom.us/j/6933657197

Zoom ID: ID: 693 365 7197

Join this Book Club with Dr Rebekah Bale from the Department of English Language and Literature
to explore the short story 'The Sack' written by an American-Zambian author and critic, Namwali Serpell.

Date: Friday, 26 January 2024

Time: 4 pm - 5 pm

Venue: Main Building, RM 115

Speaker: Dr Rebekah Bale

Online Registration: https://forms.gle/yUhbvBMdhiYmGZB39

Ready to elevate your English proficiency?

👀Have a look at the Language Centre's upcoming workshops in Semester Two!

If you are planning to take the IELTS exam, don't miss our IELTS workshops starting from February!

Light refreshments and small gifts are provided. Come to snack and learn in the Language Centre!

ANZSA Conference 2023
‘Shakespeare - Beyond all Limits’

🎉 Exciting News from the Language Centre (English Section)! The Consultation Desk is now open!

🌟 Get Ready to Meet Our Student Language Consultants! 🌟

Improve your spoken English skills in a fun and engaging way - through the dialogues of iconic movies!

Date: Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Time: 2:00 - 3:30 pm

Venue: RHB 203

Speaker: Dr. Winnie Zeng

Online Registration: https://forms.gle/oc56tweRKs6HSVpJ8

Zoom Link: https://hksyu.zoom.us/j/6933657197

Zoom Meeting ID: 693 365 7197

Workshop: AI-Powered Writing Mastery: Enhancing Vocabulary and Sentence Structures through Social Media

Date: Thursday, 9 November 2023

Time: 4:45 - 6:15 pm

Venue: Language Centre, RLG 104, Research Complex Lower Block

Speaker: Dr. Jenny Wan

Online Registration: https://forms.gle/sR8nrgkBDXAw9xFx9

Join Zoom Meeting: https://hksyu.zoom.us/j/97697387314
Meeting ID: 693 365 7197

Vocabulary Expansion Workshop

Learn how to enlarge your vocabulary list!

Date: Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Time: 2:00 - 3:30 pm

Venue: RM211, Main Building

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Chan

Online Registration: https://forms.gle/Yyq325ckSUfi8RJd7

Join Zoom Meeting: https://hksyu.zoom.us/j/97697387314
Meeting ID: 693 365 7197

Book Club - Netflix vs. Print ‘Good Hunting’ by Ken Liu

Date: 6 November 2023

Time: 14:00-15:00

Venue: RHB108

Speakers: Dr. Rebekah Bale & Dr. Margorie Cheung

Workshop: The Smooth Writing Formula: Seamlessly Connecting Ideas through Cohesion and Coherence

Date: 2 November 2023

Time: 15:00-17:00

Venue: RM102 Main Building

Speaker: Dr. Chris Kwan (From HKU)

Date: 1st - 21st November
Venue: Cabinet of Stories, 1 Strauton Street, Central
The exhibition is supported by LTI Korea and HKSYU.

🎵How to appreciate English song lyrics?

Learn about rhymes, alliteration and imagery in this workshop together!

Date: Friday, October 27, 2023

Time: 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Venue: RHB108, Research Complex Higher Block

Speaker: Dr. Marjorie Cheung

Online Registration: https://forms.gle/VGWCA7EPnYJpZAJ67

Join Zoom Meeting: https://hksyu.zoom.us/my/languagecentre
Zoom Meeting ID: 693 365 7197

📝Vocabulary Expansion Workshops

How can you create and enlarge your own academic vocabulary list with a free learning tool?

Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2023

Time: 2:00-3:30 pm

Venue: RM211, Main Academic Building

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Chan

Online Registration: https://forms.gle/9Mnjh2T8AQLRuGYq9

Join Zoom Meeting: https://hksyu.zoom.us/j/6933657197
Zoom Meeting ID: 693 365 7197

📖 2nd Book Club Meeting of the Semester

Comics in a book club? Yes, you read that right!

It's a comic about Chinese people using the English language in Hong Kong!

Date: Friday, 20 October, 2023

Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Venue: RHB108

Speaker: Dr. Marjorie Cheung

Online registration: https://forms.gle/2JcmV4rSz6R8Ez7FA

📩 Email etiquette workshop

How can you write your email requests properly and receive a positive response?

Date: Thursday, 19 October 2023

Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm

Venue: RM102

Speaker: Dr. Chris Kwan (from HKU)

Online Registration: https://forms.gle/csu46QABfHa2fS3q6

Join Zoom Meeting: https://hksyu.zoom.us/j/6933657197
Zoom Meeting ID: 693 365 7197

Seminar - From Godzilla to Spiderman "How do Animals become National Metaphors in Popular Films"

Date: 17 October 2023

Time: 14:00

Venue: On Zoom

Speaker: Dr. Chan Ka Ming

AI writing workshops - 2

Is using AI tools an act of plagiarism?

Date: Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm

Venue: Language Centre, RLG104, Research Complex Lower Block

Speaker: Dr. Rebekah Bale

Online Registration: https://forms.gle/BDtiFzPdhCp5SAVR7

Join Zoom Meeting: https://hksyu.zoom.us/j/97697387314
Meeting ID: 976 9738 7314

📖 First Book Club Meeting of the Semester

Join this book club to explore the fantastic world of Harki Murakami (村上春樹)!

Date: Thursday, 5 October, 2023

Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Venue: RHB102

Speaker: Dr. Rebekah Bale

Online registration: https://forms.gle/t5vsDV8zXg6MvTa79

🧑‍💻 AI writing workshops

How can we utilize AI-powered tools for efficiency while maintaining our originality?

Date: Tuesday, 3 October 2023

Time: 3:30 - 5:00 pm

Venue: RHB202, Research Complex Higher Block

Speaker: Dr. Grace Leung

Online Registration: https://forms.gle/Wupk7y94kT9XW8qF8

Join Zoom Meeting: https://hksyu.zoom.us/j/99766662130
Meeting ID: 997 6666 2130

Check out the Language Centre's upcoming workshops in Semester One!

🎉 Exciting News from the Language Centre (English Section)! The Consultation Desk is now open!

🌟 Get Ready to Meet Our Student Language Consultants! 🌟

Free Consultation for DSE Students

Zoom meeting and Instagram live chat with our professors about: Applications, University life, Our programme and Career paths

Date: July 19, 2023

Time: 10:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

IELTS Summer Course 2023 working in partnership with the British Council
Only 20 seats are available.

Dates: Mondays, 5, 12, 19, and 26 June 2023 (4 sessions)
Time: 2 pm – 5 pm
Venue: British Council TST Teaching Centre
1-2/F, Fontaine Building, 18 Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Teaching mode: Face-to-face
Class size: 20
Course fees: HK$1090

Registration procedures:
1. Fill in the online form by 5 pm, Friday, 5 May 2023
https://forms.gle/PNEfq1rLLkTFH2sF8

2. Successful applicants will receive a confirmation email detailing the payment method. Course fees are paid in cash and non-refundable.

Enquiries: languagecentre@hksyu.edu

Research Roundtable 2023
Date: 25 April 2023, 2:30 pm-3:30 pm
Venue: Room RHB204, Research Complex.

Also, the Zoom link is attached:
https://hksyu.zoom.us/j/96185332794?pwd=VnhIbGltTVRVZnpjclR3WHViK2ovZz09

Meeting ID: 961 8533 2794
Passcode: 598063

Career Talk and Alumni Sharing 2023:

Date: 12 April 2023 (Wed)

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Venue: Room 413, Academic Building

International Virtual Student Seminar
(Co-organized by HKSYU English, KIMEP U Kazakhstan, and Yessenov U Kazakhstan)
Date: 7 April 2023
Topic: Differences
Format: Zoom

Translating Hybrid Texts in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the English Translation of Chan Koon Chung's Fiction JINDU CHA CANTING

Speaker: Dr. Dechao Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Date: 4 April 2023
Time: 2 pm to 3:30 pm
Venue: Room 405, Main Building, Hong Kong Shue Yan University

IELTS Talk
Date: March 9, 4:30pm to 5:30pm

Book Club: A Girl Like Me by Xi Xi (1983)
Date: 23 February 2023
Venue: The Langauge Centre, RLG104,
Research Complex Lower Block

Workshops on Academic Writing
Date: 18, 25 Feb and 4 Mar
Teacher: Dr. Anora Yu
Venue: Zoom

The Guide to Prepare Your Proposal for Research Programme Application Writing Workshop

Date: 15 Feb 2023 (Wed)
Time: 15:30 – 17:30
Venue: RHB 301

If you are thinking of applying for any research programme, please join us in this writing workshop. The Admission office will go through the format and skills required for your application.

Read Aloud Programme
Date: 6 Feb - 21 April 2023
Venue: The Language Centre,
Research Complex Lower Block RLG104

IELTS 30-Hour Preparatory Course
Date: 4 Feb - 15 Apr 2023

Spanish Elementary Spanish A1 Course
Date: 2 Feb - 6 Apr 2023

Date: 30 Jan 2023

You are most welcome to visit the Centre and meet our Student Consultants. The consultation services range from English grammar to conversation practices. In addition, our Student Consultants would be more than happy to introduce to you the facilities and activities offered by the Centre such as movie-watching, board-game playing, and online English learning programmes. For our Student Consultants' specialism and service hours, please refer to the posters attached. We look forward to seeing you at the Language Centre, Research Lower Block RLG104.

Language Centre - English Consultation Desk
Date: 30 Jan - 21 Apr 2023
See you at the Language Centre RLG104

Consultation Services for Postgraduates & Staff
Date: 30 Jan - 24 April 2023
(Every Monday 12 noon to 2pm)
Teacher in charge: Dr. Anora Yu
Venue: Rm LG561, Main Academic Building

Please email kwyu@hksyu.edu for an appointment.

2022 SYU Information Day
Date: 26 Nov 2022

Admission Talks and Programme Chats are all ready for you! Please come and join us.

Date: 26 Nov 2022
Venue: Hong Kong Shue Yan University Campus and Online Live Stream
10 Wai Tsui Crescent, Braemar Hill, North Point

The talks and chats will also be broadcast online. For more information of the info day, the study programmes of each department and the virtual tour, please visit this website: https://infoday.hksyu.edu/en/

A Special Lecture co-organized by History and English Department

Title of the talk: Neo-Noir, Cyberpunk, and Hong Kong Cityscape
Speaker: Dr. Dickson Cheung, HKBU CIE
Date: 21 Nov 2022
Time: 3:45-5:00 pm
Venue: RHB 102
Language: Cantonese

Departmental Seminar: The impossible City: A HK Memoir (2021)
Speaker: Karen Cheung
Date: 15th Nov 2022 15:00 via Zoom
Zoom link: https://hksyu.zoom.us/j/3512977970

Cultural Sharing Session with Exchange Students
Date: 8 November 2022
Time: 4:45pm - 5:45pm
Venue; Language Centre RLG104
Guests of honour: Exchange Students

Children’s Literature Seminar
Topic: Children’s Literature, Language, and City
Date: 5 Nov 2022
Time: 10:00 – 16:00
Venue: RLB 303

Seminar Speakers:
Prof. Andrea Mei-Ying Wu
Dr. Faye Dorcas Yung Schwendeman
Prof. Eddie Tay
Ms Clairine Chan
Ms Connie Yuen Maoshan
Ms Nga Man Wong

A poster presentation session featuring the works of 14 students is also held at the event.

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (1948)
Date: 27 October 2022
Time: 5pm to 6:30pm
Venue Language Centre, RLG104
Speaker: Dr. Rebekah Bale

Museum and Culture: The Making of The Louvre
Speaker: Professor LEUNG Mei Yee (梁美儀)

A lieu de mémoire (place of memory) par excellence, The Louvre is a museum which, by the work of human endeavours and the work of time, becomes a symbolic element of the memorial sites not only of the French, but of the human community. The lecture will trace the making of the Louvre throughout its history, and demonstrate how the museum itself as well as its collections are amalgamation of different historical époques and conflicting ideas of arts, instead of a homogeneous, harmonious and coherent whole.

Date: 20 Oct 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00 am
Venue: Room 405, Main Building

IELTS Intensive Course
Date: Saturdays 8, 15, 22 and 29 October, 2022
Venue: British Council TST Branch

How to avoid plagiarism in Academic Writing?
Date: 7 October 2022
Speaker: Dr. Grace Leung

Book Club
Speaker -- A Shinagawa Monkey
Date: 29 September 2022
Speaker: Dr. Rebekah Bale

F22 Basic Korean Language 1
Duration: 29 September - 1 December 2022
Speaker: Ms. Ho Ying Tung, Suzuki

F22 Elementary Spanish A1 Course
Duration: 29 September - 1 December 2022
Speaker: Mr. Raúl Hernández

F22 Basic Japanese Language 1
Duration: 26 September - 28 November 2022
Speaker: Mr. Choi Chi Chiu

Workshop on Email Etiquette
Speaker: Dr. Anora Yu
Date: 20 September 2022

Virtual Student Seminar with HKBU CIE and KIMEP, Kazakhstan

Date: 15th April, 2022

Time: 12-4pm

Venue: Zoom

Theme: Gender and Representation

The seminar is aiming at providing an international platform for students to discuss and exchange ideas beyond the classrooms, giving them an opportunity to gain experience of public speaking and offering them a chance to share their knowledge with a broader audience from different cultures.

Theme-based English Conversation Section- Easter

Join our Student Consultants via Zoom to listen to Easter and to practise your English speaking skills!

Language Centre Workshop – Agendas and Minutes Writing

Do you want to know about the skills of agendas and minutes writing?
Join our workshop and learn more about them!

Theme-based English Conversation Section- Summer Jobs

Join our Student Consultants via Zoom to listen to tips on summer jobs and to practise your English speaking skills!

Theme-based English Conversation Section - International Mother Language Day

Join our Student Consultants via Zoom to listen to their ideas of International Mother Language Day and to practise your English speaking skills!

As part of the Contemporary Literature course, we are delighted to welcome our guest speaker, Marieka from The Africa Center, Hong Kong. She will be talking about and leading a discussion on Under the Udala Trees a novel by Chinelo Okparanta published in 2015. The novel is set in 1960s Nigeria and tells the story of a girl moving through adolescence and understanding her sexuality and her society. Please join us on March 22nd at 2.45 - you don't need to have read the book or have any experience of African Literature!

Tsitsi Marieka Chirikure is the Literature and Editorial Projects Manager for Africa Center Hong Kong.

Below is a recap of the talk:
https://youtu.be/UwFVT9WSGbw

Acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of the Chinese literature, Hongloumeng by Cao Xueqin has long been a subject of academic importance in the area of Chinese literary studies. Over the years, translation researchers have come up with insightful observations in their comparative study of the two full-length translations of the novel, one by Hawkes and Minford (the Story of the Stone, Penguin, 1973-1986) and the other by Xianyi Yang and Gladys Yang (A Dream of Red Mansions, Foreign Languages Press, 1978-1980). The proposed study systematically investigates the formulaic language of both translations as a feature of translator style using corpus-based methods. In this study, the 3-word and 4-word lexical bundles were extracted and systematically analysed to shed light on how they differ in translator style. The findings show that Hawkes’ translation tends to use a greater number and variety of lexical bundles than Yangs’ version, which is to a large extent determined by the different translation strategies used by the respective translators. In view of the research findings, it is proposed that formulaic language can serve as a robust indicator for studying translation/translator style.


Kanglong Liu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Theme-based English Conversation Section - Preparation for IELTS Academic Test

Join our Student Consultants via Zoom to listen to tips on the preparation for IELTS Academic Test and to practise your English speaking skills!

IELTS Talk

Are you planning to take the IELTS Academic Test?
The Language Centre is honoured to invite the British Council to deliver an online IELTS Talk.
Part I: Introduction to IELTS Academic Test
Part II: Q-&-A Session

Theme-based English Conversation Section: Time Management

Join our Student Consultants via Zoom to listen to their time management tops & to practise your English speaking skills!

Theme-based English Conversation Section: Home Cooking

Join our Student Consultants via Zoom to listen to their home cooking tips & to practise your English speaking skills!

What is Plagiarism & How to avoid it?

Are you still struggling with academic writing?
Please join this online workshop to gain some clues.

Theme-based English Conversation Section: Study from Home Strategies

Join our Student Consultants via Zoom to listen to their study-from-home learning strategies & to practise your English speaking skills.

Theme-based English Conversation Section: Literary English

Join our Student Consultants via Zoom to listen to their picks of all-time English classics & to practise your English speaking skills!

Theme-based English Conversation Section: Winter Olympics

Join our Student Consultants via Zoom to gain some insights into Winter Olympics & to practise your English speaking skills!

Theme-based English Conversation Section – Valentine’s Day

Join our Student Consultants via Zoom to gain some insights into Valentine’s Day & to practise your English speaking skills!

Tongue Twister Challenge

Join our Student Consultants for this Tongue Twister Challenge!

Graduate Sharing – Young Master

Want to know more about your career prospect?
We have invited our alumni Miss Ashley Tam and the Brand Ambassador of Young Master Miss Stella Lo to share their work with us.

Workshop- How to get more likes on social media?

Do you want to get some more attentions on your social media? Join us for more tips of using social media!

Academic Workshop

Are you still struggling with academic writing?
Join this workshop to get some skills.

Deaf people have been deprived of their language rights due to language and education policies based on myths about sign language. With all the difficulties preserving Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) in schools for the deaf, Deaf culture has developed within different communities in our city. Through the journey of exploring its own identity, Deafhood has been an important topic of discussion in the last decade. The guest speakers from Brainfood, Aaron Wong (speaker) and Cat Fung (interpreter), will provide an introduction to HKSL, Deaf culture and Deafhood by sharing their experience in the local deaf community.

Email Etiquette

Do you want to know more about email writing?
Join us for more tips of using email etiquette.

Book Club

Join this bookclub and share your idea about The Little Prince.

THE GREEN BOOK: NATURE AND ME
Your work will remind us the importance of plants to human and the planet. This picture book contest is organized by the Department of English Language and Literature.

Junior Form (Forms 1-3)
Senior Form (Forms 4-6)
Individual and Group Entry
1st Prize: Book Coupon $2000
2nd Prize: Book Coupon $1000
3rd Prize: Book Coupon $500

All winning entries will be published on the contest website. For more details, please visit
http://hksyupicturebookcontest.com/

Date: 14th Nov, 2020
Time: 11am to 3pm
Venue: Hong Kong Shue Yan University
10 Wai Tsui Crescent, Braemar Hill, North Point

Admission Talks, Programme Chats, Campus Tours are all ready for you!

The talks and chats will also be broadcast online. For more information of the info day, the study programmes of each department and virtual tour, please visit this website: https://infoday.hksyu.edu/en/

Book Club

Join this bookclub and share your idea about this graphic novel: The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugee.

Intercultural Communication

How does intercultural communication work? Let’s join us and understand the process with the study of linguistics.

An Introduction to English Humour

What makes English Humour? Let’s explore the linguistics of humour.

Academic Writing Workshop

What are the skills required for a good piece of academic writing? Join our workshop and explore the use of academic vocabulary, format and the skills of citation and referencing

Vnglish Workshop

Join our movie night to discuss the Vnglish.

Movie Night

Join our movie night to discuss the movie: Whiplash.

Book Club

Join this book club and share your idea about this graphic novel: Persepolis

Language and Ecology: Towards a Shared Narrative in Interdisciplinary Research 2019

The Natureculture Crisscrossings: An Emergent Chinese-Western Intersectional Perspective

The Anthropocene and Beyond: Towards a Shared Narrativity in Interdisciplinary Research
29 May- 1 June, 2018

Translation of French Detective Stories in Hong Kong Chinese Newspapers in the Early 20th Century: A case Study of Emile Gaboriau

Dr. Li Bo
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Translation,
City University of Hong Kong, 27, April, 2017

Science Fiction Seminar

Yin-Yang and Kungfu Movies: from Posthumanism to Non-humanism
Prof.WONG King Yuen
Professor and Head, English Department, HKSYU
12, October, 2016