Senate Committee on Language Enhancement
Terms of Reference and Composition:
Chairman: | To be appointed by the Vice-Chancellor |
Members: | Ex-officio members: Dean of each Faculty, or an Associate Dean (Education) as his/her representative Heads of all the language enhancement units: · Department of Chinese Language and Literature · English Language Teaching Unit · Yale–China Chinese Language Centre Dean of the Faculty of Arts Registrar |
Other members as appointed by the Vice-Chancellor: Up to five other teachers, including some with expertise in applied linguistics and/or languages At least one representative of the College language enhancement committees | |
Two student representatives: To be elected among the serving Student Senators | |
Secretary: | To be nominated by the Registrar |
Terms of Reference:
(a) | To keep under review all aspects of bilingual education at the University; |
(b) | To keep under review the implementation of the University's policy on bilingual education, and to facilitate the promotion of the policy; |
(c) | To keep under review all language enhancement programmes in Chinese (Putonghua, Cantonese and written Chinese) and English, including the approval of new programmes and the quality and outcomes of these programmes; |
(d) | To promote all language enhancement efforts at the University, with reference to the recommendations of the Committee on Bilingualism. |
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