Polytechnic University's new English and Chinese postgraduate diplomas are designed for primary and secondary school teachers
Hong Kong Polytechnic University has introduced two new postgraduate diplomas to help build a strong professional language teaching force in Hong Kong.
The first intake for the new courses, the Postgraduate Diploma in English Language Studies and the Postgraduate Diploma in Chinese Language and Literature - start in September.
The Postgraduate Diploma in English Language Studies, offered by the department of English, aims to equip primary and secondary school English teachers with the subject knowledge and improve their capabilities in teaching.
Participants are encouraged to reflect on their existing knowledge and experience.
The programme covers nine subjects, each carrying two credits, with a total yield of 18 credits.
Subjects include phonetics and phonology for English language teaching, lexis, morphology and semantics for English language teaching, grammatical analysis, pedagogical grammar, spoken and written discourse for English language teaching, the history and sociolinguistics of English, English in global contexts, psycholinguistics and second language acquisition and literature, as well as language arts in English.