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My NUS Fellowship Experience: A Journey of Support, Collaboration, and Cultural Immersion
My NUS Fellowship Experience: A Journey of Support, Collaboration, and Cultural Immersion Mary Dorothy dL. Jose, PhD Associate Professor, University of the Philippines Manila and Research Fellow, Centre for English Language Communication My 12-month stint as a research fellow at the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC) in 2024 was a most delightful, productive, and …
An Interview with Associate Professor Mary Dorothy dL. Jose CELC’s First NUS Fellow (Southeast Asia)
To read Prof Doti’s reflections, click here.
CELC Seminar on the rhetoric of Filipina suffragists held on 6 November 2024
CELC Seminar on the rhetoric of Filipina suffragists held on 6 November 2024 Dr. Mary Dorothy Jose, NUS Fellow, conducted a seminar at CELC based on her research on the rhetoric of the Filipina suffragists in the early 20th century. The seminar titled “Homemaking as a Civic Duty: Contestations on the Role of Filipino Women …
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OCC Workshops AY2024/25 Semester 1
OCC Workshops AY2024/25 Semester 1 This year the OCC‘s umbrella topic for their workshops is “Better than a Bot. We are humans.” Bots pick up functional messages and those that use generative AI can even compose messages, sometimes more fluently than we can. How then can we future proof ourselves? As tech-writer Kevin Roose (2021) …
CELC Teaching Commendation Awards and Special Mention Awards AY2023/2024 for Part-time Tutors
CELC Teaching Commendation Awards and Special Mention Awards AY2023/2024 for Part-time Tutors Please join us in congratulating the following part-time colleagues who are recipients of the CELC Annual Teaching Commendation Award and Special Mention Award for AY2023/2024: Mr Melvin Seow Wei Jen (Critical Thinking and Writing Category) Ms Irene Tan Ai Koon (Undergraduate Academic English Category) …
Talk at Scotia Bank’s Educational Resource Group
Talk at Scotia Bank’s Educational Resource Group Lee Gek Ling and Yurni Said-Sirhan were invited by Scotiabank’s Employee Resource Group on 21 May 2024, in celebration of UNESCO’s World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue & Development, to give a talk on communicating and collaborating effectively in culturally diverse teams. During their presentation, Gek Ling …
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Congratulations to CELC’s Annual Teaching Excellence Awards 2024 Recipients
Congratulations to CELC’s Annual Teaching Excellence Awards 2024 Recipients
Oral Communication Committee Workshops during Semester 2 AY23/24
Oral Communication Committee Workshops During Semester 2 AY23/24 The Oral Communication Committee offered a second run of our cheekily titled series of four workshops on presentation skills, “MMA: power punching your presentations”. We based our content on ideas derived from multimodal analysis, (Kress, 2009) in which the main points of messages may be more convincing …
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WCH Oral Communications Peer Tutors Orientation
WCH Oral Communications Peer Tutors Orientation Over two half-days, our Peer Tutors participated in a dynamic and insightful orientation. The sessions were filled with enthusiasm and collaborative spirit as our nine newly recruited tutors and six returning tutors got ready for their roles. From effective tutoring strategies to interactive training, the orientation was a success! …