The English Language Center at Shantou University is dedicated to teaching excellence and providing a supportive language learning environment, in which students can develop their communicative competence and critical thinking strategies through both curricula and co-curricula activities in a vibrant, creative, and intellectual community.
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"Try your best, Ivy!" I said to myself before I confidently got on the stage of “21 Century National English Speaking Contest”. On that evening, unsatisfied with the third prize, I was upset in my room. Lily, my coach came and said to me, "Ivy, the process is much more important than the outcome." Looking back on the process of my preparation...Detail
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Organized Debating in English has now come to STU. Under the direction of the ELC, the opportunity has now been given for all STU students to challenge themselves and others to use their skills of Critical Thinking and Competitive Argumentation, and all this using English as the medium of civilized exchange of ideas and issues...Detail
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Cam-TESOL, with 1200 participants one of the major English language teaching conferences in South East Asia, was the chosen venue for this year’s professional development initiative of ELC. The conference took place at the National Institute of Education in Phnom Penh from February 21-22, 2009 and was organized jointly...Detail
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On Monday evening, March 16, 2009, in the presence of a big crowd of enthusiastic audience, the first workshop of ELC Pronunciation Series was held. It was co-hosted by Claudia and Yolanda to give the students an overall idea of the purpose and functions of the pronunciation workshops, introduce to them some basic techniques of articulation...Detail
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The Shantou Beat, the only English newspaper on our campus, started publishing five years ago, since it has come so far. In order to celebrate this memorable event, a fifth Anniversary party was hosted on the evening of November 13th, 2008 in the EAC. The party began with performances by the editors and reports of The Shantou Beat...Detail
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On Thursday afternoon, December 4, 2008, Prof. Xiaobo Wen, Vice President of STU, accompanied by Dr. Anthony Fung, Executive Director of Li Ka Shing Shantou University Foundation, visited the English Language Center (ELC). Five ELC faculty members, Hong Ngoc Pham, Micah Jarnot, Rita Zheng, Peter Xiao and Bruce Chen, and two staff members...Detail
1st Philippine International English Language Conference
The British Council Teachers’ Club with Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas, and the British Alumni Association is pleased to announce that the first Philippine International English Language Conference and Networking will be held on Saturday 31 January and Sunday 1 February 2009 at the SMX Function Room 4, SM Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City Philippines...Detail
5th CamTESOL Conference on English Language Teaching
The 5th CamTESOL conference will take place on 21-22 February 2009. The conference will be held at the National Institute of Education (NIE).
Confirmed plenary speakers are Dr Jun Liu (University of Arizona, USA) and Professor Anne Burns (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia).
Confirmed featured speakers are Alan Maley, Gwyneth Fox (both from the UK) and Om Soryong (Cambodia)...Detail
China Association for Intercultural Communication & Association for Chinese Communication Studies
--International Conference on Intercultural Communication between China and the World: Interpersonal, Organizational and Mediated Perspectives
All the required documents should be submitted at the conference registration website http://cis.bfsu.edu.cn as MS Word attachments by January 1, 2009. The complete paper should be received by May 1, 2009...Detail
Independent Learning Association Conference Hong Kong 2009
Key Dates: New closing date for receipt of abstracts is 10 October, 2008. Presenters will be informed whether their proposal has been accepted by 24 December, 2008. All presenters must register and pay for the conference by 1 March, 2009. Abstracts submitted by participants who have not registered by 1 March, 2009 will be removed from the programme...Detail
