主旨发言介绍（2）

主旨发言专家（2）：

个人简介：

Bruce Morrison, PhD

Director, English Language Centre

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr Bruce Morrison is Director of the English Language Centre at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where, in 1996, he established and coordinated the Centre for Independent Language Learning. Having previously worked in the Chinese mainland, Italy, South Korea, Malaysia, Spain and the UK, he has extensive experience in language teaching, curriculum development, teacher education, educational research and pedagogic administration. He earned his PhD in 2003 focusing on the evaluation of independent language learning environments. His research interests include the non-native speaker tertiary learning experience, independent and self-access language learning, and technology enhanced language learning. His more recent research has focused specifically on the transition to an EMI university environment for non-native English speaking students – the challenges they face and the strategies they develop to overcome these. As well as serving on a number of journal editorial and review boards and participating in numerous funded projects, he has published widely and has presented at international conferences in the fields of education, English language learning and teaching, independent learning, and technology-enhanced learning and teaching. In addition to co-editing three books, he edited the book Independent Learning: Building on experience, seeking new perspectives (Hong Kong University Press).

会议发言主旨：

Title

EAP instruction in Hong Kong universities: Bridging the gap between school and tertiary English Medium Instruction (EMI)

Abstract

The transition from secondary to tertiary education is one that can be a cause of concern for any school-leaver, situating them as it does in an unfamiliar learning environment which presents a number of challenges. For non-native English speakers whose previous learning experience was in a first-language medium, the challenges can be very much greater. In this presentation, I will examine some ways in which Hong Kong universities help primarily Cantonese-speaking undergraduate freshmen study effectively in an English-medium instruction environment, briefly discuss findings from a research project that investigated the challenges that these learners face, and suggest some ways in which EMI universities might better support such students.