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Specific English Language Areas

|  General English  |  Literature in English  |  Professional and Business English  |  Academic English  | 

|  English Language Skills Training for Corporates and NGOs  |   Professional English training for Talents under QMAS (高才通)  |  

|  English Language Assessment and Preparatory Courses  | 

At HKU SPACE, we design and offer courses to meet your goals for General English, Business English and English for the Professions. These range from 30 hours to 90 hours and cover a broad spectrum of levels.

Reasons to improve your English at HKU SPACE:

  •  Polish your interpersonal and career skills
  •  Learn to communicate ideas more effectively
  •  Interact confidently with overseas and English speaking people
  •  Fine-tune your presentations and writing to project better impressions
  •  Stay up to date by learning about current English use
  •  Sharpen your competitive edge in today's global workplace

 

English Langauge Assessments

LINGUASKILL – the NEW Cambridge English Language Benchmark Test

This is the benchmark test in support of Continuing Education Fund (CEF) reimbursements of English Language course and benchmark test fees.   This replaces the former Business Language Testing Service (BULATS) offered by the University of Cambridge. 

The Cambridge Assessment English offers organisations a quick and convenient way of checking the English Language proficiency levels of your employees – the Linguaskill Tests. 

  • Linguaskill General
  • Linguaskill Business
  • Linguaskill Test & Continuing Education Fund
  • For Individual English Language Learners
  • For Corporates
  • For Immigrants
  • For HKDSEE Candidates
  • For University Applicants
  • Linguaskill Test Report & Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)
  • Cambridge Linguaskill Test in Hong Kong

For details, please follow this link: https://hkuspace.hku.hk/collection/linguaskill 

 

Assessment Preparation Courses

 

We Study • We Practise • We Master 《活學英語 創展未來》

English Programmes

Programmes Type

Programme Type

Microcredential

Start Date

Class Schedule

Financial Assistance

Venue

Hong Kong Island

Kowloon

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The programme aims to equip students with advanced English linguistic knowledge and skills through language practice in student-centred learning activities such as speaking, writing, reading and listening to a variety of semi-authentic and authentic English texts.  Upon successful completion of the Programme, students are expected to communicate proficiently in English.
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Start To be advised
Duration 30 weeks
Fee HK$8,200
The programme aims to equip students with the language skills in specific focused areas at a higher level of accuracy and appropriacy.
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Start To be advised
Duration 30 weeks
Fee HK$3,700

Effective Writing Skills 2 develops your language at a higher level than Effective Writing Skills 1, and builds on and enhances the skills learned there.  However, as long as you meet the entry requirements, you can gain direct entry into Effective Writing Skills 2 without doing Effective Writing Skills 1.

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Start To be advised
Duration 15 weeks
Fee HK$3,700

This course focuses on Impromptu Talk and Discussion.  It aims to develop oral communications skills that enable you to speak clearly and present ideas coherently.  

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Start 07 DEC 2024 (SAT)
Duration 6 weeks
Fee HK$2,300
This 18-hour course is aimed at enhancing the learners’ English proficiency using songs as a medium.  The course helps learners improve their listening and speaking skills, expand their vocabulary range, and gain insights into the culture associated with the target language which they aspire to master.  The course presents excellent opportunities for repetition and practice – the basic building blocks in language learning but often boring in conventional classroom settings. 
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Start 07 DEC 2024 (SAT)
Duration 6 weeks
Fee HK$1,500
Soft skills are essential for business executives to manage complex situations, collaborate with others, and inspire teams to achieve their goals effectively. However, employing soft skills in English could be challenging for native and non-native English speakers.

This workshop series allows participants to dive into the world of business executives on how they deploy soft skills in English in their workplace. Participants will engage in role-playing exercises to ignite their essential leadership capabilities.

Whether you are an aspiring or new executive looking to sharpen your edge, this series will strengthen your linguistic fluency and interpersonal prowess and help you understand and unleash your potential.
 
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Start 06 JAN 2025 (MON)
Duration 21 hours
Fee HK$3,000.00
An Intensive Training Course on Business and Legal English for Ambitious Professionals in Law and Finance
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Start 07 JAN 2025 (TUE)
Duration 45 hours
Fee HK$9000
The ability to deliver academic presentations with impact and persuasiveness is imperative. Impactful academic presentations help project professional image to audiences and achieve academic and career successes. Non-native speakers often find academic presentations in English challenging because they are required to respond to questions raised by audiences in academic conferences, viva voce, or coursework in higher education.
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Start 08 JAN 2025 (WED)
Duration 18 hours
Fee HK$2,820
The course aims at examining the politicized nature of ethnic representations and how they affect social relations and the ethno-symbolic network. Investigating the links between media, society and culture, it falls into the following main themes: Silencing the Asiatic, the White/Black division, the Caribbean subaltern, the Arab and Muslim others, and the symbolic American other. Exploring forms, practices, and politics of representation, we will discuss the importance, as well as the futility, of representational ethnic struggles.
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Start 08 JAN 2025 (WED)
Duration 15 hours
Fee HK$2,800

This course is designed for teachers and students who have to teach or produce advanced written texts for academic, professional or research purposes. The focus is on using product-focused, process-oriented and genre-based approaches to generate plain English texts that conform to academic and discipline-oriented standards in terms of genre conventions, rhetorical structures and discoursal features.  The instructor will demonstrate how to deconstruct and analyse model texts, journal articles and research papers in diverse contexts, invoke analytical thinking skills and develop effective instructional strategies on writing pedagogy. Participants will receive constructive feedback and suggestions on their writing products.

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Start 08 JAN 2025 (WED)
Duration 25 hours
Fee HK$3000