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Here are more questions to think about: Employability: Is being familiar with machine translation tool actually increasing Employability? If machine translation tool is going to be very common in the industry, is impeding students from utilizing them even meaningful? Does employability represent the sole objective of educational endeavours? Specification of English Proficiency Levels: Should the… Continue reading More Questions to Think About and How the Research is Moving Forward

Derrida, J. and Bass, A. (2001). Writing and difference. London: Routledge. Fukuyama, F. (2006). The End of History and the Last Man. New York, N.Y. ; London: Free Press. McGarry, A., Erhart, I., Eslen-Ziya, H., Jenzen, O. and Korkut, U. (2020). The Aesthetics of Global Protest Visual Culture and Communication. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Mink, J. (2019). Teaching… Continue reading Bibliography

Research Question: Student Translating Non-English Native Languages into English in Essay Writing Define the Problem and Frame Research Question Research Question: Student Translating Non-English Native Languages into English in Essay Writing I am teaching for a pre-degree programme. All of our students are international; and most of their native languages are not English. Some students… Continue reading Research Findings

Interviews serve as the core of my research methodology. Interviews do not only offer real-time interaction between the researcher and participants allowing for immediate clarification of doubts or misunderstandings; but it also enhances the accuracy and depth of the data collected. Moreover, interviews also provide the opportunity to explore unexpected or unanticipated topics that may… Continue reading Research Methodology

PgCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication Action Research Project Ethical Enquiry Form Participant name: SING HANG TAM Cohort: 4 Tutor name [delete as appropriate]: Lindsay Jordan What is your research question?   Student Translating Non-English Native Languages into English in Essay Writing Who will be providing you with information to help you answer… Continue reading Ethical Enquiry Form

My research method mainly consists of in-depth 1-to-1 interviews with teachers and students. These are some questions that I am planning to ask regarding my research topic – Student Translating into English in Essay Writing. Questions for my colleagues (teachers) in interviews: Do you think translating into English in essay writing is a right thing… Continue reading Questions for Interviews with Teachers and Students

Notes on Teaching Resistance by John Mink We have encountered the ongoing assault on academic freedom: from the imposition of “standardized syllabi” that “inform” the consumers (the students) what to expect from the product (the course) to the influence of “for-profit” schools promoting “marketable skills and degrees” that continue to undercut and otherwise call into… Continue reading Citations from Books and My Notes on Them

To what extend is our job to make the materials more accessible to the students? To what extend is the students’ job to learn the materials trying hard? The reason why I am asking these questions is that I have chatted with a technician, who has utilised some unconventional pedagogical methods. I have talked to… Continue reading Rationale – Contemplating Trans-Languaging in Education

As noted in The Order of Things, by Foucault, Spanish writer Jorge Luis Borges claims that, in a Chinese encyclopaedia, the animal kingdom could be classified as: belonging to the Emperor; embalmed; tame; fabulous; frenzied; drawn with a very fine camelhair brush; having just broken the water pitcher; that from a long way off look… Continue reading Race – Reflection on Global Citizen – Climbing Out of the Box (From the Terms of Reference from SoN around Race)