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Reorienting the Teaching Universe: The Experience of Five First-Year English Teachers in Hong Kong.

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Pennington, Martha C.; Richards, Jack C. – Language Teaching Research, 1997

Reports on the experiences of five Cantonese-dominant secondary English teachers in Hong Kong during their first year of teaching after graduation from a BA course in Teaching-English-as-a-Second-Language (TESL). The report investigates the extent to which the teachers implemented the principles they were exposed to in their university education.…

Descriptors: Cantonese, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Dominance

Bilingualism or Linguistic Segregation? Symbolic Domination, Resistance and Code Switching in Hong Kong Schools.

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Lin, Angel M. Y. – Linguistics and Education, 1996

Examines the historical and socioeconomic context of classroom code switching in Hong Kong. Empirical analyses of actual instances of classroom code switching reveal this action to be the teachers' and students' local pragmatic response to the symbolic domination of English. The article concludes with a cost-benefit analysis of the Hong Kong…

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cantonese, Class Activities, Classroom Communication