Challenges for Digital Literacy in English Curriculum
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This paper presents and describes the implementation of digital literacy in English curriculum in the context of Hong Kong. We outline two major challenges of introducing digital pedagogy in humanities classrooms at the undergraduate level and discuss with specific reference to two cases the strategies we have taken to tackle them.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017