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From Perceptual Dialectology to Perceptual Multilingualism: A Hong Kong Case Study
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Albury, Nathan John; Diaz, Max – Language Awareness, 2021
This paper proposes "perceptual multilingualism" as a research interest within the broader folk linguistic enterprise. By drawing on the geolinguistic mapping tasks popular in perceptual dialectology -- whereby participants are asked to draw and depict dialectal diversity in a given region -- we show that perceptual multilingualism can…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Folk Culture
Teachers' Emotions in the Context of Education Reform: Labor Process Theory and Social Constructionism
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Tsang, Kwok Kuen; Kwong, Tsun Lok – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
In recent years, many teachers suffered different kinds of negative emotions in the context of education reforms. A typical explanation was that the education reforms disempowered teachers in teaching, so teachers were forced to do much non-instructional work. Teachers considered their work meaningless but were powerless to change it, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Emotional Response, Educational Change
Trans/Languaging and the Triadic Dialogue in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms
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Lin, Angel M. Y.; Lo, Yuen Yi – Language and Education, 2017
There has been a rich literature on the role of language in learning and on its role in knowledge (co-)construction in the science classroom. This literature, rooted in social semiotics theories and sociocultural theories, discussed research conducted largely in contexts where students are learning content in their first language (L1). In this…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Teaching Methods
Academic and Career Expectations of Ethnic Minority Youth in Hong Kong
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Cheung, Francis; Lai, Beatrice P. Y.; Wu, Anise M. S.; Ku, Lisbeth – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
Based on social-cognitive career theory (SCCT), we explore how ethnic identity, parental occupation, efficacy in learning Chinese, and learning experience relate to ethnic minority adolescents' academic and career expectations. The participants are 632 Southeast Asian adolescents in Hong Kong. In accordance with SCCT, structural equation modeling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Group Students, Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration
A Latent Class Growth Analysis of School Bullying and Its Social Context: The Self-Determination Theory Perspective
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Lam, Shui-fong; Law, Wilbert; Chan, Chi-Keung; Wong, Bernard P. H.; Zhang, Xiao – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
The contribution of social context to school bullying was examined from the self-determination theory perspective in this longitudinal study of 536 adolescents from 3 secondary schools in Hong Kong. Latent class growth analysis of the student-reported data at 5 time points from grade 7 to grade 9 identified 4 groups of students: bullies (9.8%),…
Descriptors: Bullying, Social Theories, Self Determination, Victims
An Examination of Class Size Reduction on Teaching and Learning Processes: A Theoretical Perspective
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Harfitt, Gary James; Tsui, Amy B. M. – British Educational Research Journal, 2015
The question of how class size impacts on student learning has been debated for some time, not least because it has substantial financial implications for educational policy. The strength of this debate notwithstanding, results from numerous international studies have been inconclusive. The study from which this paper stems sought to conceptualise…
Descriptors: Class Size, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Interviews