News & Events
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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.
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Theme-based English Conversation Section- Easter
Join our Student Consultants via Zoom to listen to Easter and to practise your English speaking skills!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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
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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.
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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!
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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
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Theme-based English Conversation Section: Home Cooking
Join our Student Consultants via Zoom to listen to their time management tops & to practise your English speaking skills!
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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!
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What is Plagiarism & How to avoid it?
Are you still struggling with academic writing?
Please join this online workshop to gain some clues.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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!
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Tongue Twister Challenge
Join our Student Consultants for this Tongue Twister Challenge!
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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.
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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!
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Academic Workshop
Are you still struggling with academic writing?
Join this workshop to get some skills.
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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.
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Email Etiquette
Do you want to know more about email writing?
Join us for more tips of using email etiquette.
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Book Club
Join this bookclub and share your idea about The Little Prince.
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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/
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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/
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Book Club
Join this bookclub and share your idea about this graphic novel: The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugee.
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Intercultural Communication
How does intercultural communication work? Let’s join us and understand the process with the study of linguistics.
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An Introduction to English Humour
What makes English Humour? Let’s explore the linguistics of humour.
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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
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Vnglish Workshop
Join our movie night to discuss the Vnglish.
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Movie Night
Join our movie night to discuss the movie: Whiplash.
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Book Club
Join this book club and share your idea about this graphic novel: Persepolis
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Language and Ecology: Towards a Shared Narrative in Interdisciplinary Research 2019
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The Natureculture Crisscrossings: An Emergent Chinese-Western Intersectional Perspective
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The Anthropocene and Beyond: Towards a Shared Narrativity in Interdisciplinary Research
29 May- 1 June, 2018
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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
