A Bridge between East and West

Comparing with fleeting business visits to European countries in the last eight years since I worked as a professional in international education sector fresh from postgraduate study, my stay in Britain has witnessed that my English language skills has been honed, and my understanding about and vision of the world has been reshaped. This experience will surely act as a catalyst for progression in both my career, academic research and life. This report outlines my personal reflection on learning experience at the English Language Centre of the University of Liverpool.  I am convinced that ELC is one of crown jewels of the UoL’s internationalisation and teaching excellence.

Englishclasses

Teachers’ professionalism

(Preparedness,punctuality, language proficiency)

Teachers’ experience

(Teachinginternational students, teaching in different countries)

Teachers’ passion

Interaction withstudents, without any personal negative feelings, marking writing tasks,correction whenever there are mistakes (pronunciation, grammar, collocation)

Teachers’ inspiration

(Writing Englishblogs, listening to radio, reading newspapers, building vocabulary, recodingspeech and correction, book review)

Teachers’ interaction with students

No student let behind, different methods involved

Management

Tutorials

Students representatives

Email system

Diversity of teachers

Assessment

Progression

Listening practice

SWT activities

Variety

Inclusiveness

Registration  (Eventbrite)

Quality

Newsletters

Safe issues (insurance)