Kin Tang is an English Language Instructor who originally joined the Center of Language of Education at HKUST in 2006 and since rejoined in 2011. He moved to Hong Kong from the United Kingdom in 1999 and has been teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Communication at tertiary level since 2006. Prior to joining HKUST, he worked at the University of Hong Kong and in other non-teaching areas such as Social Work, Business Development and Marketing.
Professional Interests
Kin’s research and professional interests include effective Business Communication, implementing technology into language learning and independent learning. He is also a project manager for the iLang team (The informal language curriculum) and is responsible for coordinating English speaking workshops and language advising services.
Scholarship
2022
Working Paper
Activating Learning through Active Learning at the CLE
TANG, Kin
Short Descriptions
In our jobs as educators, we are often faced with the questions of what is a good lesson? How can we engage and motivate our students? What makes them remember what we have taught? These are consistent questions and challenges we face and ask ourselves regardless of how much experience we have, whether we are classroom teachers or Course leads or Materials writers and even whether have had a good or bad lesson (especially the latter!). Essentially, the learner is at the centre of all our work as educators and this informal investigation aims to build on our lesson observation study and explore these questions through the lens of active learning approaches and other related pedagogies, theories or approaches we can find along the way that might be useful, relevant and hopefully insightful for teaching and educating.
Possible Benefits
- Explore areas for best and shared practice in teaching engaging lessons - Incorporate strategies into Course design and materials for ECOMM courses, LANG2010 revisions and beyond
Deliverables
- Publish Mini-Cast on DPS to informally share findings - Summer EYE Workshop