After a month of progressing and hard work, the Creative Writing Contest was successfully held in the Black Box Theatre last week. Among all the outstanding works that we had received in the first half of the month, five excellent works were shortlisted and were comprehensively presented in the final. ...

The ELC English Presentation Contest was successfully held last Wednesday, November 27, 2019. The Contest aimed at providing a stage for EELC1003 students to fulfill their talent in English presentation and share what they had learned in their EELC1003 class. The target audience was all UM students, ...

Have you thought of working as an author in the future? It sounds dramatic and unachievable but you can have a taste of it in this workshop! This workshop focused on scriptwriting which is not widely discussed among students. Some basic ideas about the settings, the plot, and types of genres were bein ...

Dear students, There was a “Note-taking Workshop” held by ELC last Friday, 25 October 2019. Around twenty students participated in the workshop. During the workshop, they were first exposed to the basic idea of note-taking skills, and then together learned about six commonly used symbols in note-taki ...

Macau is a fast-paced city. Work and study are overwhelming which make us feel stress out and hectic.  If we can’t find a way to release our stress, that may affect our physical and mental health! Art is the best remedy for stress. Through this workshop, students shared their worries while others gav ...

Business Letter Writing Workshop, organised by the English Language Centre, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, was held successfully on Friday, 27 September 2019. This academic workshop helped students understand the formal language and the structure of a business letter, and develop effective business ...

The ELC Chatroom activity is back! Held and successfully completed on September 20th, ELC Chatroom allows students especially freshmen to practice communicating and speaking in English, make new friends and share their own thoughts. In this activity, students got to talk with native speakers about th ...

The University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) recently organised a four-week Summer English Immersion Programme 2019 for incoming first-year students. The programme consists of morning formal classroom learning, and afternoon/evening immersion-style learning. Participating student ...

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 ...