Education Seminar Series 2010 - “Talking English with Parents” by Dr Angel Lin

The Faculty of Education, in support of the University's drive to strengthen knowledge exchange, one of the three strategic themes of the University's Strategic Development, takes the initiative in knowledge sharing with the public by organizing a series of education seminars for parents. The first seminar "Talking Mathematics with Parents" held in May received enthusiastic response. Our Faculty will be organizing the second seminar "Talking English with Parents - What should I know and do about my child's English education?". The seminar will examine the English Language taught in schools nowadays and the focus will be on the role parents are playing in the rapid changing teaching and learning environment.

At the seminar, the following issues will be discussed:

• What should parents do to help their child develop an interest in English?
• How can parents reinforce their child's interest of reading both inside and outside school?
• How can parents support their child's learning of English both inside and outside school?
• How does Web 2.0 change the way young people learn English?
• How do children learn English in the 21^st century? What has changed in the past 2 decades?

Dr Angel Lin is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include socio-cultural theories of language communication and education, new media communication studies, youth cultural and feminist media studies, critical discourse analysis and language planning in postcolonial contexts. Dr Lin is the first Asia-based scholar elected as Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee of the influential American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). 

Media representatives are cordially invited to the seminar, the details are as follows:

Date: June 26, 2010 (Saturday)
Time: 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Venue: Hui Pun Hing Lecture Hall (LE1), Library Extension, HKU
Language: Cantonese

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Queenie Wong, Development and Communications Manager, Faculty of Education, HKU (Tel: 2219 4270 / Mobile: 9220 5840 / Fax: 2540 6360 / E-mail: qlpwong@hku.hk) .