Project Outcome

The final year is an important year for students as they strive to complete their degree programmes and relate their projects to their future career or study. The capstone project is the demanding learning task that students have to complete in their final year, and maintaining their English standard through working on their capstone projects can build their confidence and help them to effectively showcase the knowledge and skills acquired in their university education.

This project is funded by the Hong Kong Government’s University Grants Committee (UGC) Funding Scheme for Teaching and Learning Related Proposals entitled “Language Enhancement for Capstone Projects Using Interactive Apps”. This project, comprising of five UGC-funded tertiary institutions in Hong Kong, aims to develop a mobile app to enhance students’ English communicative competence needed for completing their senior year capstone projects by providing them with multi-modal English learning resources appropriate to their discipline. The project brings together English language teachers and discipline academics/project supervisors, as well as experts in mobile app design and app developers to achieve the project’s objectives.

The project objectives are:
1. To enhance students’ English communicative competence needed for completing their senior year capstone projects in different disciplines

2. To develop a mobile app with multi-modal English learning resources appropriate to discipline and project type for students to organize their capstone project ideas and to practise the English required at different stages of writing a capstone project as well as the English skills they need to verbally present and defend their report