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Yeung, Lorrita – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2009
The use of connectives has always been a trouble spot for Second Language Learners of English. For example, the use of "besides" as a connective appears to be especially problematic. There may be various reasons for this, including a lack of awareness of how "besides" functions as a discourse marker. This paper investigates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Native Speakers, Comparative Analysis
Chu, Chau Kan; Morrison, Keith – Educational Studies, 2011
This paper argues that, despite government support in financial and contractual matters, ongoing problems of retention of Native-speaking English Teachers (NETs) in Hong Kong stem, in part, from problems of cross-cultural adjustment. The paper reports a small-scale qualitative investigation into the experiences of NETS in Hong Kong and finds…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intervention, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers
Mak, Barley – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2011
This article reports the findings of a study investigating factors contributing to the speaking-in-class anxiety of a group of 313 Chinese ESL first-year university students in Hong Kong. Results using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) of Horwitz et al. reveal five factors leading to the group's speaking-in-class anxiety. The…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Negative Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
Luk, Jasmine – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2012
An increasingly important curricular aim of teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) is to develop learners' intercultural competence for communication with people from different cultures through English. English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' perceptions and practices in relation to integrating culture with English learning have been…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Harfitt, Gary James – Educational Research, 2012
Background: There is currently ongoing debate in Hong Kong between the teachers' union and the Government on the reduction of large class size (typically more than 40 students) in secondary schools and whether smaller class sizes might facilitate improvements in teaching and learning. In fact, many Hong Kong secondary schools have already started…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Class Size, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Leung, Alex Ho-Cheong – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
This paper explores the purported negative influence of foreign domestic helpers (FDHs) on child second language acquisition (SLA) by studying Hong Kong Cantonese children's listening ability in second language (L2) English. 31 kindergarten third graders aged 4;6 to 6, and 29 first year secondary students aged 11-14 who have had a Filipino…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Grade 3, Listening Skills
Itakura, Hiroko – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2009
Subordinate femininity associated with feminine Japanese has been found to pose barriers for foreign language learners of Japanese, especially among Western female learners of Japanese. The present study investigates attitudes towards the use of both masculine and feminine Japanese among non-native professional speakers of Japanese. The latter's…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Adults, Foreign Countries
Chan, Alice Y. W. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2011
This article reports on the results of a questionnaire and interview survey on Cantonese ESL learners' preference for bilingualised dictionaries or monolingual dictionaries. The questionnaire survey was implemented with about 160 university English majors in Hong Kong and three focus group interviews were conducted with 14 of these participants.…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Interviews, Measures (Individuals), Monolingualism
Jackson, Jane – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2011
This paper explores the notion of cosmopolitan, intercultural citizenship in relation to intercultural education and study abroad. As part of a larger investigation of the second language sojourn, the individual developmental trajectories of more than 100 Chinese university students were examined to better understand their language and…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Intercultural Communication, Citizenship, Cultural Awareness
Lee, Alice; Whitehill, Tara L.; Ciocca, Valter – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
Reliable perceptual judgement is important for documenting the severity of hypernasality, but high reliability can be difficult to obtain. This study investigated the effect of practice and feedback on intra-judge and inter-judge reliability of hypernasality judgements. The judges were 36 speech-language therapy students, who were randomly…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Listening, Speech Evaluation, Interrater Reliability
Wu, Manfred Man-fat – New Horizons in Education, 2012
Background: There has been a lack of research on exploring how beliefs about language learning (BALLs) and out-of-class language-learning activities are related. BALLs and out-of-class language-learning activities play an important role in influencing the learning behaviours of learners and learning outcomes. Findings of this study provide useful…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Self Efficacy
Evans, Stephen; Morrison, Bruce – Language and Education, 2011
Research conducted in the 1980s and 1990s pointed to a widening gap on Hong Kong university campuses between institutional language policy, which stipulated the use of English, and classroom practice, which often involved the use of Cantonese to explain and discuss English written materials. This article presents the findings of a multidimensional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Student Experience
Gao, Xuesong – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2010
This article reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese students' language learning experiences with a focus on their efforts to improve their English competence in a leading English medium University in Hong Kong. The inquiry problematizes an uncritical assumption of a shared pursuit of linguistic competence among different students…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Social Networks
So, Connie K.; Best, Catherine T. – Language and Speech, 2010
This study examined the perception of the four Mandarin lexical tones by Mandarin-naive Hong Kong Cantonese, Japanese, and Canadian English listener groups. Their performance on an identification task, following a brief familiarization task, was analyzed in terms of tonal sensitivities (A-prime scores on correct identifications) and tonal errors…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Tone Languages, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese
Chan, David W. – Educational Psychology, 2009
This study investigated three orientations to happiness and their relationships with subjective well-being in a sample of 228 Chinese prospective and in-service teachers in Hong Kong. Confirmatory item factor analyses supported a three-dimensional model that included constructs represented by a life of meaning, a life of pleasure, and a life of…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Teacher Burnout, Well Being, Foreign Countries