Currently Victor runs an English discussion group on Saturdays. Email him if you are interested to join.
Professor VICTOR FUNG (馮強教授)deanfungenglish.blogspot.com; deanfungenglish@gmail.com MPhil (Cambridge) Teach academic English writing to associate-degree & high-dip students in Beacon College (遵理英专); Chair professor, Ta Kung Int'l Media Institute; Tel: 34117632 author of :錯在哪裏？常見英語病句>>(7.2013)读香港时事学英语>>;你一定要懂的字彙570>>這900個詞彙助我成為南華早報首位華人副總編輯>>(7.2014).freelance jobs: (1) write speeches for executives; (2) teach (in workshops) English writing, English editing, PR writing, crisis communication and media management; (3) polish essays for AD, undergraduate and graduate students. SERVICES: Polish essays/theses for AD, undergrad and graduate students; ENGLISH WRITING N EDITING, TRAINING, SPEECH-WRITING FOR EXECUTIVES 3-hour training in Crisis Communication Contact: deanfungenglish@gmail.com
馮強，中大新聞傳播和英文系一級榮譽畢業(全班考第一)，劍橋大學及港大碩士。曾任職《華爾街日報》及加拿大《金融郵報》記者、《南華早報》副總編輯、《讀者文摘》總編輯、香港兩所大學公關處處長，現任香港浸會大學傳理學院國際新聞和財經新聞碩士課程主任。2009年出版《瘋讀社論、強化英語》。2010年在《最後六任港督的聲音》一書內分析多位前港督發表的講詞。他在2011年5月出版<<生活英語小智慧>>一書。 他目前是3项新闻奖的评判。馮強繼續寫強化英語的書，幫助讀者在學習、職場和人生上更上層樓。(女兒奔奔考IELTS試獲9分滿分。)1. Author: <<瘋讀社論強化英語>> 2. Co-author: << 最後六任港督的聲音>> 3. Author: <<生活英語小智慧>>; 4. Author: <<學會演說、改變你的人生>> 7.2011; Blog: deanfungenglish.blogspot.com/<<巔峰[強化英語]日報>>;twitter.com/deanfung1; facebook.com/victorkfung; www.linkedin.com/pub/victor-fung/33/893/31b;Guitarist of the band "南山浪人"; Motto: "no envy & no fear" (bio: V graduated 1st in his JLM class, became China correspondent 4 the WSJ/Asia,deputy chief editor of the SCMP, chief ed of Reader's Digest and PR director at 2 varsities be4 becom' a teacher in '08.)
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2012年2月7日 星期二
Mainland students in HK should learn to speak up
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hkedition/2012-02/07/hk.html
(look for the section of HK opinion)
Hi Victor, just read your article. Here are some of my comments:
1) The silent style of mainland students are formed during their 16 years' education in mainland schools, so it's not realistic for them to change within one year's MA programme where your class only occupy a tiny tiny amount of their time. According to my experience, it needs at least 2 and half years...
2) There are virtues in every kind of education model. And the Chinese model does one thing greatly: laying sound foundations of knowledge through extensive reading and long-term study.
3) Perhaps the reason why students find your courses not as inspiring as it actually is or should be is that you are pursuing a solely heuristic way of teaching. In your eyes it means freedom of expressions but in many's eyes that means being forced to express something they have totally no idea of, and lose face in front of all other classmates (by the way that's a signature dish of mainland primary/middle/high school teachers to humiliate students who never do their homework - and remember mainland students' 16 years of psychological shadow).
4) The way to improve classroom experience may lie in a revisiting of the Chinese model which you might find old-fashioned. More readings, more theories, more interpretations of international affairs, less daily examples, less jokes, more tests...so that students feel they are inputting/learning. This may contribute to their "speaking out" in the future.
Hi Victor, just read your article. Here are some of my comments:
回覆刪除1) The silent style of mainland students are formed during their 16 years' education in mainland schools, so it's not realistic for them to change within one year's MA programme where your class only occupy a tiny tiny amount of their time. According to my experience, it needs at least 2 and half years...
2) There are virtues in every kind of education model. And the Chinese model does one thing greatly: laying sound foundations of knowledge through extensive reading and long-term study.
3) Perhaps the reason why students find your courses not as inspiring as it actually is or should be is that you are pursuing a solely heuristic way of teaching. In your eyes it means freedom of expressions but in many's eyes that means being forced to express something they have totally no idea of, and lose face in front of all other classmates (by the way that's a signature dish of mainland primary/middle/high school teachers to humiliate students who never do their homework - and remember mainland students' 16 years of psychological shadow).
4) The way to improve classroom experience may lie in a revisiting of the Chinese model which you might find old-fashioned. More readings, more theories, more interpretations of international affairs, less daily examples, less jokes, more tests...so that students feel they are inputting/learning. This may contribute to their "speaking out" in the future.
Daisy