FAH Professor Kunnan selected by U.S. Department of State for prestigious English Language Specialist assignment
Professor Antony John Kunnan Professor Antony John Kunnan (FAH) has been selected by the U.S. Department of State for a two-week English Language Specialist virtual project focusing on Language Assessment Development at the National Research University’s Higher School of Economics (Национальный иссле ...
UM’s English Language and Literature in World’s Top 300
The Department of English has entered the QS World’s Top 300 in the subject area of English Language and Literature in 2020. The QS World University rankings is the most widely quoted and most authoritative of university ranking services in the world. ...
Professor Ronald Fong was invited by ASUM to give its teachers of English a professional workshop
Professor Ronald Fong was invited by ASUM to give its teachers of English a professional workshop on the sound system of English, particularly on the IPA as applied to English. Ronald explained the importance of choosing a model of English for learners, according to which teachers can set their goals ...
FAH Hosts the Assessing World Languages Conference 2019
Hosted by the University of Macau, the third Assessing World Languages Conference (AWL3) held from November 6 to 9 has successfully concluded. The AWL3 was organized by the Department of English in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, with Prof. Antony Kunnan, Prof. Cecilia Zhao and Prof. Matthew Wall ...
Students of FAH Receive National and International Awards
MA (SLA) student receives TIRF Master’s Research Grant Coral Yiwei Qin Through fierce competition, Coral Yiwei Qin, an M.A. student from the Second Language Acquisition program in the English department, received the “TIRF Master’s Research Grant” with a total of 3,000 USD from The International Rese ...
【MYUM Interview】Good Literature Is Never Didactic: Department of English Prof Chiu Man Yin
In 1992, Chiu Man Yin, now an associate professor in the University of Macau’s (UM) Department of English, was admitted by UM as one of its only two students of English studies. ‘English studies was not doing very well. People were not interested in it. The university came close to abolishing the ent ...
Professor Ronald Fong runs workshops on learning second language vocabulary for ASUM English teachers
Group photo with ASUM teachers Professor Ronald Fong has run two workshops on English vocabulary learning by Macau pupils for teachers of English at the Affiliated School of the University of Macau (ASUM). The first workshop introduces how linguistic theories may possibly provide teachers of English ...
Holocaust survivor Eva Koralnik gives talk at UM
Eva Koralnik shares her personal experience On 17 January, a Holocaust Survivor Eva Koralnik came to the University of Macau (UM) to share her personal experience for the first time in English at the invitation of the university’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH). She hoped that the Holocaust his ...
【MYUM Interview】Department of English Professor Damian Shaw and His Cross-cultural Journey
If knowing a national language can break down cultural barriers in a particular country, Damian Shaw, an assistant professor from UM’s Department of English, must be holding a laissez-passer that allows him to travel freely to any place in the world. Thanks to his impressive set of language skills, P ...
Prof Ronald Fong and Prof Yao Jingming won awards at Outstanding Achievement Awards for Macao Research in Humanities and Social Sciences
Prof Ronald Fong, Department of English, and Prof Yao Jingming, Department of Portuguese, recently won awards at the Fifth Outstanding Achievement Awards for Macao Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. The event was co-organised by the Macao Foundation and the Social Sciences in China Press. ...