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Ripple, R. E.; And Others – 1984
A study of the impact of language of instruction in schools on the divergent thinking, self-esteem, and locus of control of expatriate and Hong Kong native Chinese adolescents is reported and some of the cognitive and affective costs of the immersion method of bilingual education are examined. Hong Kong children in most schools must change…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingual Education, Cantonese, Divergent Thinking
Download full textHau, Kit-Tai; Marsh, Herbert W.; Kong, Chit-Kwong; Poon, Andrew Chung-Shing – 2000
This study examines how instruction in the first language (L1), Chinese, and in the second language (L2), English, affects a large sample of students' academic achievement in L1, L2, and content, nonlanguage school subjects, including mathematics, science, geography, and history, in their first 3 years of high school. For all four content area…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Chinese, English (Second Language)
Hoare, Philip; Kong, Stella – 1994
A Hong Kong program to train secondary school teachers in the use of English as the medium of classroom instruction is reported and discussed. The program provides assistance to teachers accustomed to using mixed code in the classroom and who must use English consistently, and helps English teachers understand how they can support teachers of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Educational Change
