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Direct linkXie, Qin; Lei, Yuqi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
This research conducted diagnostic assessment of problems in first-year undergraduates' English academic papers and tracked potential sources of the problems to the writing process and strategy use. Data collected include 339 term papers and interviews with 17 students. The samples were manually error tagged and marked against a detailed…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition
Fung, Daniel; Macaro, Ernesto – Language Teaching Research, 2021
The language learner strategies research field has often tried to identify the good language learner (GLL) by distinguishing more proficient from less proficient learners. However the notion of 'good' may be problematic without taking into account an individual's linguistic knowledge (LK). This article foregrounds LK in relation to strategy use in…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Crosthwaite, Peter Robert; Raquel, Michelle – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
This study determines the fine-grained bottom-up linguistic features involved in successful second language (L2) English academic group oral tutorial discussion through the use of a spoken learner corpus composed of more than 20 hrs of L2 production. Student performances were graded by teacher-raters using a can-do rating scale, which assessed…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
Flowerdew, Lynne – English for Specific Purposes, 2010
This article describes the design and implementation of a business proposal module for final-year science students at a tertiary institution in Hong Kong. It is argued that in the needs analysis process, the present situation analysis (PSA), that is, personal information about the learners and factors which may affect their learning, is just as if…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Download full textNewbrook, Mark – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1989
A discussion of guides to English usage intended for Hong Kong speakers of English as a Second Language offers general comments on such guides, often written in Chinese and less commonly written in English, and more specific comments on one guide, written in English. The latter guide was analyzed for errors and misleading information. A large…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Countries, Grammar
New Horizons in Education, 1995
The bilingual (Chinese/English) journal published annually for Hong Kong educators contains articles in a wide range of areas and at all levels of education. Articles include: "Micropolitics in Managing Bi-Sessional Primary Schools: A Case Study of the Interactions between Partner School Heads" (Cheung Wing-ming); "On Features of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Design, Distance Education, Educational Change
