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CELC Seminar on the rhetoric of Filipina suffragists held on 6 November 2024

By Zhen Wei | November 8, 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

By Zhen Wei | October 24, 2024

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) …

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CELC Teaching Excellence Awards AY2023/2024

By Zhen Wei | September 20, 2024

CELC Teaching Excellence Awards AY2023/2024

CELC Teaching Commendation Awards and Special Mention Awards AY2023/2024 for Part-time Tutors

By Zhen Wei | August 29, 2024

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) …

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Talk at Scotia Bank’s Educational Resource Group

By Zhen Wei | May 28, 2024

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

By Zhen Wei | May 9, 2024

Congratulations to CELC’s Annual Teaching Excellence Awards 2024 Recipients

Oral Communication Committee Workshops during Semester 2 AY23/24

By Zhen Wei | April 22, 2024

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

By Zhen Wei | January 18, 2024

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! …

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CELC Team at HECC 2023

By Zhen Wei | December 12, 2023

CELC Team at HECC 2023

Book Launch – Goh Keng Swee: A Singaporean for All Seasons

By Zhen Wei | October 30, 2023

Book Launch – Goh Keng Swee: A Singaporean for All Seasons We are pleased to share that Mr Felix Cheong, our Part-Time Tutor has recently published a graphic novel, Goh Keng Swee: A Singaporean for All Seasons. His book launch is scheduled for 14 November 2023, 6pm to 8pm at the Pod, National Library building. …

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