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Despite other teacher training cut-backs, opportunities for undergraduate students to train as language teachers at HKU have more than doubled:
• 50 new places on the BA&BEd [ELE] (JUPAS Code 6066); and
• 47 places on the BEd [Chinese] (6169) and BEd [English] (6171) including 9 newly transferred from the part-time BEd.
This doubling of intake, with the support of the University Grants Committee (UGC), is in response to the Education & Manpower Bureau (EMB)'s view that there is still a shortage of well-trained language teachers in Hong Kong, particularly English teachers, and that there will therefore be a continuing community need for holders of these degrees.
HKU offers two undergraduate programmes to specifically prepare students for direct entry into the language teaching profession. The distinctive characteristics of the two programmes are as follows:
The BA&BEd [ELE] double degree gives students the opportunity to complete two degrees, the BA and the BEd, in parallel in four years. It includes all the education requirements of the BEd, such as educational studies and methods and practice of teaching. It includes a BA Major in English Language and Linguistics, comprising at least 63 credits, with a choice of courses taught in the Department of English, the Department of Linguistics, the Programme in Language and Communication or the Faculty of Education, plus a broad range of other courses to be chosen from various departments and programmes in the Arts Faculty.
The BEd is done entirely within the Faculty of Education. It has more credits (84) devoted to subject knowledge in Chinese or English plus the advantage of these courses being taught by lecturers who have themselves been secondary school teachers and so are able to build implications for teaching into their courses. Class sizes are usually smaller on the BEd, allowing more personal interaction with lecturers, who are often the ones visiting students on teaching practice in schools.
Both the BA&BEd and the BEd offer 19 weeks of school teaching practice as well as an immersion experience in the language and culture of an English-speaking country or a Putonghua speaking region.
More details of both programmes are available on the following website: http://www.hku.hk/education/
For enquiries, please contact:
- Dr Winnie Lai, Programme Director (BEd), Tel: 2859 2538, email: ywlai@hku.hk
- Dr David Bunton, Programme Director (BA&BEd), Tel: 2859 7087, email: dbunton@hku.hk
Language Education double degree to satisfy community need
23 Mar 2005
The Senate of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has approved a new undergraduate double degree in Arts and Education. The BA&BEd in English Language Education, jointly offered by the Faculties of Arts and Education, will be admitting up to 50 students starting this September.
Despite other teacher training cut-backs, opportunities for undergraduate students to train as language teachers at HKU have more than doubled:
• 50 new places on the BA&BEd [ELE] (JUPAS Code 6066); and
• 47 places on the BEd [Chinese] (6169) and BEd [English] (6171) including 9 newly transferred from the part-time BEd.
This doubling of intake, with the support of the University Grants Committee (UGC), is in response to the Education & Manpower Bureau (EMB)'s view that there is still a shortage of well-trained language teachers in Hong Kong, particularly English teachers, and that there will therefore be a continuing community need for holders of these degrees.
HKU offers two undergraduate programmes to specifically prepare students for direct entry into the language teaching profession. The distinctive characteristics of the two programmes are as follows:
The BA&BEd [ELE] double degree gives students the opportunity to complete two degrees, the BA and the BEd, in parallel in four years. It includes all the education requirements of the BEd, such as educational studies and methods and practice of teaching. It includes a BA Major in English Language and Linguistics, comprising at least 63 credits, with a choice of courses taught in the Department of English, the Department of Linguistics, the Programme in Language and Communication or the Faculty of Education, plus a broad range of other courses to be chosen from various departments and programmes in the Arts Faculty.
The BEd is done entirely within the Faculty of Education. It has more credits (84) devoted to subject knowledge in Chinese or English plus the advantage of these courses being taught by lecturers who have themselves been secondary school teachers and so are able to build implications for teaching into their courses. Class sizes are usually smaller on the BEd, allowing more personal interaction with lecturers, who are often the ones visiting students on teaching practice in schools.
Both the BA&BEd and the BEd offer 19 weeks of school teaching practice as well as an immersion experience in the language and culture of an English-speaking country or a Putonghua speaking region.
More details of both programmes are available on the following website: http://www.hku.hk/education/
For enquiries, please contact:
- Dr Winnie Lai, Programme Director (BEd), Tel: 2859 2538, email: ywlai@hku.hk
- Dr David Bunton, Programme Director (BA&BEd), Tel: 2859 7087, email: dbunton@hku.hk
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