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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

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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MMA – Power Punching your Presentations The Oral Communication Committee offered a series of four workshops on presentation skills. We based our content on ideas derived from multimodal analysis, (Kress, 2009) in which messages may be made more powerful or impactful by aligning the different ways meaning is made in a message. Messages or presentations …

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Check out the highlights some of the Centre’s key milestones, collaborations with various stakeholders,  events, and colleagues’ contributions to scholarly activities here.

Writing and Communication Hub (Oral Communication) is ready to begin the new semester!   There are 5 faculty members supporting this committee: Doreen Tan, Amelyn A Thompson, Netty H binte Zaini Mattar, Tony Goh and Lee Jun Hiang (all pictured).   This year, we have recruited two new peer tutors: Barnabas Sng (FoS, Year 2) and …

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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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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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