Group photo The English Language Centre (ELC) of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) recently organised a six-day English summer camp for secondary school students in Macao. The event attracted many local students, as well as teachers and students from other countries. There were many interactiv ...

Prof Katherine Chen is the director of the English Language Centre (ELC) and associate professor of applied linguistics in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH), University of Macau (UM). As a specialist in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, she sees language as a window into understand ...

ELC Director, Professor Katherine Chen, gave out the opening remark and encouraged students to develop a growth mindset for learning English The English Language Centre, Faculty of Arts and Humanities welcomed 351 in-coming first-year students to kick off the Summer English Immersion Programme 2019 ( ...

ELC Director Dr. Katherine Chen gave the welcome speech The English Language Centre, Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) proudly presents Summer English High School Camp 2019 for local high schools and international students. We are very grateful to receive students from Kao Yip Middle School and Ch ...

Dear students, The ELC Guest Talk­­­—Asian Beauty: Racism, Sexism and Beauty Ideals— was held by ELC this Wednesday, May 8th. The talk was given by Dr. Esther Hio-Tong Castillo, who is a feminist, educator and sociologist. She grew up in Macau and currently lives and works in Philadelphia in the Unit ...

Dear students, The ‘English Grammar Kings and Queens’ competition was held by ELC last Friday, April 26. A dozen students participated in this competition which included two rounds in total. They were divided into 4 teams. The first round was answering multiple-choice questions. Each team had to answ ...

On 27th March, 2019, the English Language Centre (ELC) supported the UM Language and Culture Day, organized by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH), to promote cultural diversity by setting up the ELC cultural game booth and hosting a workshop on developing skills in English news writing. Both ac ...

The English Language Centre (ELC) of the Faculty of Arts and Humanity (FAH) successfully held the 2019 Spring English Festival on 18th and 19th March. This semester’s theme was Humanity and Environment, which attracted over 100 UM students joining to practice English and discuss environmental issues. ...

The English Language Centre (ELC) successfully organised the Effective Reading Workshop on 8th March, 2019 at the University of Macau. In this workshop, students were introduced to the topic of modern slavery with strategies of academic reading such as analysis of text structure, different types of s ...

On 25th February, the Academic Writing Workshop was successfully held by the English Language Centre. This workshop focused on the use of online academic corpus technology to improve students’ university writing. In the workshop, Dr. Sean Grant introduced some of the fundamental functions of two majo ...