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HE SAID THE COURSES HAD GIVEN THE GRADUATES TO REFRESH THEMSELVES INTELLECTUALLY BY TUTORS AND PEERS, AND BY JUST BEING AWAY TIME AND ENERGY TO THINK SERIOUSLY PRACTICES.
THE
OPPORTUNITIES
READING, BY TALKING WITH FROM SCHOOL ROUTINE WITH ABOUT THEIR PROFESSION AND ITS
WITH THE CONCLUSION OF THE PRESENT COURSES, PROF TAM SAID, 2,898 PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS OF CHINESE AND ENGLISH AND 277 LANGUAGE TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS HAD PARTICIPATED IN FULL-TIME, IN-SERVICE RETRAINING AT THE ILE.
APART FROM PLAYING A ROLE AS A CENTRE FOR IN-SERVICE LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION, THE ILE CARRIED OUT RESEARCH INTO LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING, PROF TAM SAID.
"THE CURRENT PROGRAMME INCLUDES INVESTIGATIONS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EXTENSIVE READING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, ASPECTS OF CANTONESE PRONOUNCIATION, THE APPLICATION OF QUESTIONING IN THE TEACHING OF READING, TEXT ELICITATION TECHNIQUES, THE EFFECTIVENESS OF 'SPLIT-CLASS' TEACHING, SPEECH RATES AND THE STANDARD RANGE OF SPEECH RATES IN VARIETIES OF BRITISH ENGLISH, AND COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING," HE SAID.
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LATER, PROF TAM OPENED THE END-OF-COURSE EXHIBITION OF LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING MATERIAIS PRODUCED BY THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE COURSES.
THE EXHIBITION WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TOMORROW (SATURDAY) BETWEEN 9 AM AND 12 NOON; AND FROM MONDAY (JANUARY 18) ΤΟ THURSDAY (JANUARY 21) BETWEEN 9 AM AND 5 PM DAILY.
SALE OF FIVE LOTS FETCHES $142 MILLION
THE SALE OF FIVE GOVERNMENT LOTS AT A PUBLIC AUCTION BY THE BUILDINGS AND LANDS DEPARTMENT TODAY (FRIDAY) FETCHED A TOTAL OF $142 MILLION IN PREMIUM.
THE LOTS INCLUDED TWO RESIDENTIAL AND THREE INDUSTRIAL SITES, ALL IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
ONE OF THE RESIDENTIAL SITES IS SITUATED AT PAK SHEK WO IN SAI KUNG WITH AN AREA OF ABOUT 1,900 SQUARE METRES.
BIDDING OPENED AT $3.5 MILLION AND' WAS BOUGHT BY Ꭻ .
& R.
SPARKLE HOLDINGS LTD. FOR $7.6 MILLION.
/ACCORDING TO