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McBride-Chang, C.; Cheung, H.; Chow, B. W.-Y.; Chow, C. S.-L.; Choi, L. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
How are metalinguistic skills associated with vocabulary knowledge in languages with contrasting phonological and morphological properties? To address this question, tasks of phonological awareness and morphological awareness, other reasoning and literacy-related skills, and measures of vocabulary knowledge in Chinese and English, were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metalinguistics, Language Skills, Chinese
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Andrews, Stephen – Language Awareness, 1997
Explores the relationship between Hong Kong secondary school English teachers' metalinguistic awareness and the ability to explain a grammar point. Teachers of different backgrounds and experience were asked to role play a grammar point on two separate occasions; videotapes of the role plays were transcribed and analyzed. (13 references)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Teachers
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Yau, Frances Man-siu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Investigates the language choice and code switching behavior of the councilors and officials in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong during 1991-95, within the context of the upcoming transfer of sovereignty in 1997 and the challenges to the old political power relationship. Points out that code switching behavior is part of the negotiation…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Change Strategies, Code Switching (Language), Context Effect
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Andrews, Stephen – Language Awareness, 1999
Discusses an in-depth investigation into the metalinguistic awareness of a group of practicing second language teachers, all nonnative speakers teaching English in Hong Kong secondary schools. The investigation focuses on teacher metalinguistic awareness as it relates to grammar. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar
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Andrews, Stephen – Language Awareness, 2006
The paper focuses on the development of teacher thinking, specifically L2 teachers' subject-matter cognitions, i.e. their Teacher Language Awareness (TLA) (see e.g. Andrews 2001, 2003). The study examines the evolving TLA, as it relates to grammar, of three teachers, each a graduate with more than 10 years' experience of teaching English in Hong…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Berry, Roger – Language Awareness, 1997
Describes a study investigating the knowledge of metalinguistic terminology in college students in Hong Kong and compares this knowledge to their English teachers' estimation of that knowledge and desire to use such terminology. Findings reveal wide differences between learners in their knowledge of terminology and wide discrepancies between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Sin, King-Kui; Roebuck, Derek – Language & Communication, 1996
Discusses the difficulties inherent in creating an authentic Chinese text of the legislation of Hong Kong. The article argues that the real difficulty lies in the need for a change in perspective, and once this change occurs, what remains is the technicality of linguistic manipulation. "Law" Chinese will best develop out of the English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Change Strategies, Chinese, Colonialism
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Coniam, David – Language Awareness, 1997
This paper sets out a series of awareness tasks for introducing English-as-a-Second-Language teachers to English language corpora and concordances. The aim of the task is to make teachers more critical of how English is described and presented in course materials and to show them that corpora are a good resource for language investigation.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Indexes, Inservice Teacher Education
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Lock, Graham; Tsui, Amy B. M. – Language Awareness, 2000
Considers issues in customizing descriptions of English grammar in the context of creating an electronic database for secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. In developing the database, the aim was to incorporate insights from functional grammar and corpus linguistics while keeping information accessible and relevant to teachers only familiar with…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Databases, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Chau, Juliana – Language Learning Journal, 2005
TutorWhile assessment and its effects on learning such as "washback" have been the subject of much debate (e.g. Alderson & Wall, 1993; Bachman, 1995: 356; Alderson & Hamp Lyons, 1996; Shohamy "et al", 1996; Andrews "et al", 2002), assessment as a tool for developmental, not merely evaluative, purposes has…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Second Language Learning
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