22 封面專題 • COVER STORY 澳大新語 • 2025 UMAGAZINE 32 three key areas. First, in promoting educational equity and talent development, the university offers a variety of scholarship schemes and has launched programmes aligned with Macao’s industry needs. Second, in educational models, UM implements a ‘4‑in‑1’ collaborative education model that promotes whole‑person development and moves beyond traditional teaching methods. Third, in research, UM has focused on educational challenges in China and Macao in recent years, including multilingual education, learning abilities, and learning experiences. By leveraging Macao’s strengths as a multilingual and multicultural city, UM provides valuable theoretical insights and practical solutions to support regional educational development. Associate Professor Yu Shulin, assistant dean of the Faculty of Education and director of the Centre for Language and Literacy Education, is deeply committed to reforming second language writing education. One of his team’s papers, “It’s very well written!”: Revisiting praise in teacher written feedback from the perspective of feedback literacy, was published in the top-tier international journal Applied Linguistics, making a significant impact on writing pedagogy. The paper presents a theoretical framework and empirical research on the multifaceted effects of teacher feedback on student writing. It advocates for a shift in focus—from simply correcting grammar and word choice to fostering higher-order writing skills such as discourse structure, logical coherence, tone, and audience awareness. The study underscores how specific, positive, and personalised feedback can boost student motivation and improve second language writing proficiency. Prof Yu’s team is also exploring innovative pedagogical approaches, including peer evaluation and labour-based contract grading. Peer evaluation engages less proficient learners in collaborative learning activities, while labour-based grading provides clear, structured frameworks for completing writing tasks. Together, these approaches help reduce disparities in language learning outcomes between disadvantaged and advantaged students, creating a more equitable system for assessing educational outcomes. In addition to academic publications with leading publishers such as Cambridge University Press and Springer, Prof Yu’s work has received international recognition. For example, scholars at The University of Queensland, Australia, have translated his findings into widely used classroom resources. ‘Through collaboration with the Macao Education and Youth Development Bureau, local primary and secondary schools, and higher education institutions in the Chinese mainland, our research has been successfully applied to classroom practices, student assessment frameworks, and teacher training programmes,’ Prof Yu explains. ‘This has advanced second language writing education in a direction that is more humanised, practical, and sustainable.’ UM develops clean energy solutions through cutting-edge materials research and industry partnerships, promotes the development of the ‘big health’ industry with Chinese medicine at its core, and leverages Macao’s unique cultural landscape to strengthen teacher training. Committed to supporting Macao’s role as a hub where Chinese culture serves as the foundation while diverse cultures coexist in harmony, the university stays attuned to real‑world needs, channelling its forward-looking academic and research achievements towards advancing social wellbeing and driving sustainable development. 澳大研究成果獲國際頂尖學術出版社發表 Research findings from UM are featured in books published by leading international academic publishers 于書林教授 Prof Yu Shulin
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