2010 English Holiday Program

Academic Session

Understanding Yourself As A Learner - Howard Tan, PhD, Education Psychologist.

Wednesday, 15th December, 2010.

1pm - 3:30pm, Pemancar House

Fee : Rm 50 (local students) USD 50 (foreign students)

Excerpt : There is no such thing as a lazy student, only a misunderstood one. 

Pictologics - Soheil Shirban, PhD, TESOL

Thursday, 16th December + Friday 17th December

1pm - 3:30pm, Pemancar House

Fee : Rm 50 for each session (local students) USD 50 (foreign students)

Excerpt : TESOL students find it difficult to practice speaking. What if they could play card games that could teach them thousands upon thousands of ways to string sentences together?

Expressing Language with the Body and with Music + Bunga Raya Play

- Penang's very own Happiness Guru, Uncle Kasi

Monday, 20th December + Tuesday 21st December

1:30pm- 3:30pm, Pemancar House

Fee : Rm 50 for both sessions (local students) USD 50 (foreign students)

Excerpt : A former medical student turned Economics teacher, Uncle Kasi (Kasi means LOVE) Uncle Kasi asks whether our children's accomplishments will mean anything if neither their parents nor the children themselves learn to understand what Happiness is and how it can be achieved. 

Creative Learning Sessions (free for students who attend any of the above courses)

Making Your Own Paper - Dec. 15th

Once children learn to make their own paper their creativity is endless. Not only that they will appreciate the process and thus conserve the use of paper. 

Crack the Code - Dec. 16th

90% of communication is through Body Language. American Sign Language is one of the fastest growing sector of language learning today. Do you know ASL? If you do, show off to your new found friends by Cracking the Code!

Literature through Movies - Dec. 17th

According to famed linguist Stephen Krashen, students of language need Comprehensible Input + 2 to acquire language. 

Learn how Beginner and Intermediate learners of language can scaffold learning by first creating input and then learning through choice selection of movies that are emotionally engaging and cognitively meaningful. Discover also how Upper-Intermediate and Advanced learners can acquire higher order thinking and a conception of Literature also through movies. 

Making a Teddy Bear - Dec. 18th 

Traditional Games - Dec. 19th 

Children and Teens are glued to their TV sets and Nintendo consoles, very passive learning indeed. What was learning like before electronic games were invented? How many more parts of our brain can we wire when playing traditional games?

Language Plants - Dec. 20th

Created by David Warr from Birmingham, UK, Language Garden is the winner of the ELTons British Council Innovation Awards in 2007. Language Plants is a lexical approach to language learning which allows learners to think about and learn chunks of language and grammar quickly and easily.