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Peer reviewedYip, Din Yan; Tsang, Wing Kwong; Cheung, Sin Pui – Bilingual Research Journal, 2003
A study examined the effects of a new Hong Kong policy requiring Chinese as the language of instruction on secondary students' learning of science. Science achievement test scores at 100 secondary schools indicate that previous use of English to teach science may have hampered students' ability to grasp material due to the high-level thinking…
Descriptors: Chinese, Educational Policy, English, Foreign Countries
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
Peer reviewedHo, Kwok K. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1985
Seventy-four grade 8 pupils in Hong Kong were randomly assigned to an experimental class, with English as the language of instruction, and to a control class, with Chinese as the language of instruction. Pupils in the immersion program were not hindered in academic achievement but did not improve second-language proficiency. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Chinese, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedYu, Vivienne W. S.; Atkinson, Paul A. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Responses of 118 Cantonese-speaking students at Hong Kong English-medium secondary schools to a questionnaire indicated those factors that contribute to the ineffectiveness of the English-medium education include: (1) lack of exposure to English outside the classroom; (2) absence of the Hawthorne effect on the immersion programs; and (3)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cantonese, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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
