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Bridges, Susan Margaret; Andrews, Stephen; Tsui, Amy Bik May; Kwai-kuen, Carol Chan; Wang, Dan; Kwan, Tammy Yim Lin; Lam, Joseph Wai Ip; Harfitt, Gary James; Chan, Cheri; Law, Wing-Wah; Cheng, Maurice Man Wai; Yeung, Pui-sze; Cheung, Wai Ming; Wang, Rhoda Kuan Yun – Teacher Education, Learning Innovation and Accountability, 2018
Discussions of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programs have indicated prevailing concerns regarding the linking of theory and practice with ongoing student criticisms that the theoretical, academic content of their degrees was the least helpful in preparing them for classroom teaching (Ure 2009). While competency-based movements underscored by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Curriculum Design, Graduate Study
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Chan, Stephanie W. Y.; Cheung, Wai Ming; Huang, Yanli; Lam, Wai-Ip; Lin, Chin-Hsi – Language Testing, 2020
Demand for second-language (L2) Chinese education for kindergarteners has grown rapidly, but little is known about these kindergarteners' L2 skills, with existing studies focusing on school-age populations and alphabetic languages. Accordingly, we developed a six-subtest Chinese character acquisition assessment to measure L2 kindergarteners'…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Written Language
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Cheung, Wai Ming; Huang, Yanli; Tsang, Hector W. H. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Hong Kong attained champion of the PIRLS 2011 that aroused keen interest in understanding the underlying reasons of a non-alphabetic language. The study aimed at unravelling various aspects of the student and home factors which contributed to remarkable Chinese reading performance. Totally 3,875 students from 132 primary schools completed the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students, Structural Equation Models