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Sun, Xiaoyan; Siu, Angela F. Y.; Fong, Shuk Yi; Chu, Tina S. F. – Education 3-13, 2023
This study looked into the experience of a group of elementary school students as well as their parents from Hong Kong, in a service-learning programme that aimed at facilitating the social-emotional development among gifted students. A total of 51 students and 72 parents participated in the focus group interview three months after the…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Service Learning, Academically Gifted, Foreign Countries
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Qiuzhi Xie; Yuyang Cai; Susanna Siu-sze Yeung – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study aims to advance our understanding of the role of word knowledge in second language (L2) reading comprehension by exploring whether morphological awareness and vocabulary assessed one year ago contribute to decoding and listening comprehension which in turn contribute to reading comprehension in Chinese children learning English as an…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Liu, Duo; Chen, Xi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The present study explored the mediating effect of word detection on the relationship between visual-spatial attention and reading comprehension in Chinese. The participants included 287 Hong Kong Chinese children (167 third graders, 84 girls, "mean age" = 8.73, SD = 0.49, and 120 fourth graders, 45 girls, "mean age" = 9.93, SD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Attention
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Deng, Qinli; Tong, Shelley Xiuli – Annals of Dyslexia, 2021
This study examined whether, and if so how, L1 and L2 segmental and suprasegmental phonological awareness is longitudinally related to L1 and L2 reading comprehension difficulties among Hong Kong Chinese-English bilingual children. Using a regression approach, we identified five types of comprehenders, i.e., 11 poor-Chinese/average-English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Suprasegmentals, Phonological Awareness, Bilingualism
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Peng, Peng; Lee, Kejin; Luo, Jie; Li, Shuting; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Tao, Sha – Review of Educational Research, 2021
With a one-stage meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) analysis based on 49,416 individuals from 267 independent samples and 210 studies, the current study systematically investigated models including meta-linguistic skills, decoding, language comprehension, and reading comprehension for Chinese population. Findings showed that (1)…
Descriptors: Chinese, Reading Instruction, Metalinguistics, Reading Skills
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Anisa Cheung – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The benefits of using digital storytelling are well documented in the literature. Whether and how these advantages can be extended to digital story-writing, especially for young learners, remains underexplored. Recent advancement in technology has the potential of streamlining the stages of planning and revising in a process approach to second…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Story Telling
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Schirmbeck, Katharina; Rao, Nirmala; Wang, Rhoda; Richards, Ben; Chan, Stephanie W. Y.; Maehler, Claudia – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
Previous research findings indicate that young children from East Asia outperform their counterparts from Europe and North America on executive function (EF) tasks. However, very few cross-national studies have focused on EF development during middle childhood. The current study assessed the EF performance of 170 children in grades 2 and 4 from…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Executive Function, Foreign Countries, Naming
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Lau, Eva Yi Hung; Li, Jian-Bin; Lee, Kerry – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This study explored the moderating effect of child competence in independent learning in relations between the amount of learning assignment, length of online learning, and parent satisfaction with children's online learning during COVID-19 imposed class suspension. The data came from an online survey conducted in Hong Kong in…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Parent Attitudes, Satisfaction
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Tong, Xiuhong; McBride, Catherine; Ho, Connie Suk-han; Waye, Mary Miu Yee; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa; Wong, Simpson Wai Lap; Chow, Bonnie Wing Yin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
In this study, we investigated the contribution of morphological awareness (MA) in one language to word reading and vocabulary in another language in Hong Kong Cantonese-English speaking children, who learn Chinese and English in school in parallel from the age of 3.5 years onwards. Our sample consisted of 97 Cantonese-English speaking children…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Word Recognition, Vocabulary, Foreign Countries
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Li, Yuk Yung – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
Despite decades of research, little is known about the dynamics of sustaining change in school reform and how the process of change unfolds. By tracing the nine-year reform journeys of four primary schools in Hong Kong (using multiyear interview, observational, and archival data), this study uncovers the micro-processes the schools experienced…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Elementary Schools
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Homer, Ryan; Hew, Khe Foon; Tan, Cheng Yong – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
This paper reports the findings of a field experiment that gamified the classroom experience of elementary school ESL students by implementing digital badges-and-points which students could earn by achieving specific behavioral and learning goals. Altogether, 120 children in eight different classes participated in this study. Four of the classes…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Recognition (Achievement), Educational Games
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Kwan, Anderson C. K.; Yuen, Mantak – Gifted and Talented International, 2013
The authors report on the implementation of an enrichment programme titled "Mathematics in the Workplace" for mathematically talented students, aged 8 to 12 years, who were studying in Primary 3 to Primary 6 classes in Hong Kong. The aim of the pilot programme was to enable gifted learners to make connections between mathematics and its…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Chen, Chi Wai Jason – International Journal of Music Education, 2015
This study is to investigate the effectiveness of using mobile devices such as iPhone/iPad/android phone/tablet to facilitate mobile learning in aural skills. The application "Auralbook" was designed in 2011 by an engineer/musician to use mobile devices to learn aural skills. This application enables students to sing, record, clap and…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices
Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
This document contains the second volume of the proceedings of the 29th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference papers are centered around the theme of "Learners and Learning Environments." This volume features 43 research reports by presenters with last names beginning between Adl…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Research Reports, Symbols (Mathematics)