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Peer reviewedMarton, Ference; And Others – Learning and Instruction, 1997
An interview study was carried out with 43 Hong Kong high school students to explore the dimensionality of learning and to study the relationship between memorization and understanding as experienced by Chinese learners. Describes different ways of experiencing learning among these students in a two-dimensional outcome space. (SLD)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comprehension, Educational Experience, Foreign Countries
Download full textAllison, Desmond M., Ed.; Leung, Lily S. K., Ed. – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1991
Papers on linguistics and language teaching in this volume are the following: "'Good' and 'Poor' Writing and Writers: Studying Individual Performance as a Part of Test Validation" (Desmond Allison, Evelyn Cheung); "To Test or Not To Test: That Is the Question" (Keith Tong, Rose Chan, Jo Lewkowicz); "Testing Listening…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Curriculum Development, Educational Strategies
Waggot, Valerie – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 2000
This article investigates how 120 teenage bilingual Chinese/English readers comprehended a verb and a noun in a Chinese text. The data are parallel translations made by examination candidates, all in the British educational system. A brief justification of the use of the data is given. This is followed by an overview of approaches to the theory of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Chinese, English (Second Language)
Lee, Icy K. B. – 1994
This study investigated the effects of "signals" in text (headings, previews, and logical connectives) on the reading comprehension of learners of English as a Second Language. Subjects were 232 female Hong Kong secondary school students, all less-skilled readers of English. The subjects read a relatively difficult passage in English on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis
Shaw, Thomas; And Others – 1994
Excerpts from interviews with 30 Asian high school students concerning their acculturation to the American classroom are presented and discussed. The students had been in the United States for no more than 2 years, and were here for a variety of reasons, including extended visits with relatives to temporary appointments of their parents to U.S.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
