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Congratulations to Our RCTEA 2023 recipients

By Zhen Wei | April 20, 2023

Workshop – Face-threatening acts – How to Give Critical Feedback Without Anyone Losing Face

By Zhen Wei | March 30, 2023

Face-threatening acts – How to Give Critical Feedback Without Anyone Losing Face Under the auspices of the Oral Communication Committee (CELC), on March 29th Tim Groombridge and Lee Gek Ling conducted a 90-minute workshop entitled Face-threatening acts – How to Give Critical Feedback Without Anyone Losing Face. In total, there were 22 participants; both staff and students were present. This …

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Workshop – The Goldilocks Factor to Winning Self-introductions

By Zhen Wei | March 23, 2023

The Goldilocks Factor to Winning Self-introductions Following from the fully subscribed first run in November 2022, the Oral Communication Camp Team ran this workshop, twice more in March 2023. The topic seems to be useful as we were fully subscribed within minutes of the e-poster being sent out. There was even a waiting list. Participants …

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Workshop: Building Bridges — Communicating & Collaborating Effectively in Culturally Diverse Teams

By Zhen Wei | February 27, 2023

The 90-minute workshop, Building Bridges – Communicating and Collaborating Effectively in Culturally Diverse Teams, was conducted by Dr Yurni Said-Sirhan on 21 February 2023 for the second time at the Central Library Training Room as part of the Oral Communication Workshop series by the NUS Writing and Communication Hub. The 13 participants who attended the …

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Peer Communication Tutoring has started!

By Zhen Wei | February 10, 2023

The WCH-Undergraduate peer tutors are from across all disciplines and levels (see profiles). The 8 peer tutors are: Timothy Yee, Saloni Baxi, Win Lae Yee, Mira Ho, Rachel Clare de Silva, Kay Yeo, Oon Jie Rui and Jannatun Tajrian (Not pictured – Win Lae Yee and Mira Ho). The faculty committee supporting the WCH-U are: …

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The Writing and Communication Hub Graduate team is ready!

By Zhen Wei | February 6, 2023

The Writing and Communication Hub Graduate team is ready! The WCH-G, staffed by the Graduate Peer Mentors pictured here, is excited to play its part in supporting the NUS Graduate community in their writing needs. The faculty committee (Marrisa E Kwan, Jonathon Tang, Uma Jayaraman, Jungyoung Kim and Jason Banta) prepared the 4 day training …

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Congrats to Jason and Rafi for their CDTL HECC 2022 Best Paper Presentation Award

By Zhen Wei | January 16, 2023

Drs. Rashid and Banta received the award for the Best Paper Presentation at the Higher Education Campus Conference (HECC) at NUS in December 2022. Their paper, The Art of the Fast Pitch: Presenting Research in 3 Minutes, detailed the collaboration between the Graduate School and the Centre for English Language Communication in preparing Graduate students …

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How to Give Critical Feedback Without Anyone Losing Face

By Zhen Wei | November 23, 2022

On November 16th Tim Groombridge and Lee Gek Ling conducted a 90-minute workshop entitled How to Give Critical Feedback Without Anyone Losing Face. The workshop took place in the Central Library Training Room and was the fourth presentation overseen by the Oral Communication Committee from CELC. In total, there were nineteen participants, and as has …

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Building Bridges – Communicating and Collaborating Effectively in Culturally Diverse Teams

Building Bridges – Communicating and Collaborating Effectively in Culturally Diverse Teams

By Zhen Wei | November 17, 2022

The 90-minute workshop, Building Bridges – Communicating and Collaborating Effectively in Culturally Diverse Teams, was conducted by Yurni Said-Sirhan on 14 November 2022 at the Central Library Training Room as part of the Oral Communication Workshop series by the NUS Writing and Communication Hub. The 19 participants who attended the highly interactive workshop came from …

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Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education

By Zhen Wei | November 10, 2022

Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education | SpringerLink

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