Projects

The Creative Writing Project, an extension of the English Across the Curriculum (EAC) Project, was launched with the aim to inspire students to become more confident and expressive writers and to foster the love of the literary craft. To cultivate the dynamic creative writing community at CUHK, we offer creative writing workshops, a campus-wide writing competition and monthly writing salons. An official project anthology is published with writing from the creative writing competition and a themed literary journal is regularly updated to showcase students’ creative voices.

Project Chrysalis is the perfect student project for you to improve your public speaking skills. Through this project, you will develop your ability to identify a social, real-life or engineering problem, develop a solution and, most importantly, pitch your solution to professionals by creating a video presentation. Gain valuable experience and win prizes!

English Across the Curriculum (EAC) includes and extends the learning of English in formal course settings to the acquisition and use of English in other subjects and disciplines. Developing students’ language proficiency within the specific disciplines plays a prominent role in the learning of content subjects. The main objective of the EAC project is to collaborate with content teachers in enhancing students’ level of language awareness and language use in the discipline.

Peer Tutoring Scheme offers informal opportunities for CUHK undergraduates and postgraduates to consult trained Peer Tutors on the use of English language in different areas of need, in particular, speaking and writing.

The ELTU IELTS initiative, an important part of the ELTU Quality Assurance Project, is funded by the Language Enhancement and Teaching Development Grant (LETDG) to obtain additional information about CUHK undergraduate students’ language needs and to help monitor their English language proficiency over the 3-year ELTU programme period.

ELTU's Student Activities Project, launched in 2012, aims at promoting English learning beyond the classroom setting with the use of a soft approach. To achieve this aim, a range of English enhancement activities are organized throughout the year by ELTU teachers and administrative staff members, as well as our English ambassadors. Some of our well-received activities include Social English Meet-up, English Materials Giveaway, and excursion. Feel free to join our activities and have fun with us! ELTU's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ELTUCUHK/), updated on a regular basis, is also a platform to promote "edutainment". Come and give us a "LIKE"!

The self-access learning package ILOLLS is a web-based and app-based platform that facilitates the learning of appropriate word stress patterns for academic vocabulary. Users can learn independently and progressively with multimodal support, including IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcriptions, audio input as well as recording functionality.

BUSINESS MEETING PLATFORM is a platform that introduces the language and etiquette rules for
professional business meetings based on specific workplace scenarios.

Interactive Speaking Platform (ISP) is a self-access platform designed to help students understand and master the process of giving impromptu speeches.
To achieve this, the platform offers a range of sections including sample impromptu speeches, rating and comments, expert evaluations as well as speaking tips.
With its interactive components, ISP can serve as a community platform where enthusiastic students exchange ideas and learn from one another. Enjoy!

Jointly developed by the English Language Teaching Unit and the Information Technology Services Centre, iVocab is a mobile application that supports independent vocabulary learning at the University. It allows users to progressively build, consolidate, recycle, and test their knowledge of a select list of 120 high-frequency words.