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Hirvela, Alan – Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 1991
Examines the role of English in Hong Kong, which is the language of business and government, but where it is spoken as a native language by only 2 percent of the population. (JL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Role
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Lee, Jackie F. K. – World Englishes, 2001
Compares the linguistic acceptability of the various forms of "need" in non-assertive contexts (i.e. in interrogatives and negatives) between two speech communities: Australians as native speakers of English, and Hong Kong people as second or foreign language learners of English. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High School Students
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Cheung, Him – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
The current research compared two accounts of the relation between language and false belief in children, namely that (a) language is generally related to false belief because both require secondary representation in a social-interactional context and that (b) specific language structures that explicitly code meta representation contribute…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Childhood Attitudes, Comprehension, Sino Tibetan Languages
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Carless, David – ELT Journal, 2006
This paper discusses an innovative programme of collaborative EFL teaching in Hong Kong primary schools, involving team-teaching shared between imported native-speaking English teachers and their local counterparts. First it analyses the way in which the scheme has evolved from previous experiences. The paper then draws on an open-ended…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Tsui, Amy B. M. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1991
Studies on comprehensible input generally emphasize how input is made comprehensible to the nonnative speaker by examining native speaker speech or teacher talk in the classroom. This paper uses Hong Kong secondary school data to show that only when modification devices involve learner participation do they serve as indicators of comprehensible…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Linguistic Input
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Gisborne, Nikolas – World Englishes, 2000
Discusses relative clauses in Hong Kong English and considers questions about its morphosyntactic feature system, comparing relevant attestations from local data to those found in other varieties of English. Examines ways relative constructions in Cantonese may affect how relative clauses in Hong Kong English are formed and how the relative clause…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Lai, Mee-Ling – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1999
Discusses both Japan and Hong Kong's desire to enhance the English standard of their secondary school students by implementing a native-speaking English teachers scheme, named JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) in Japan and NET (Native-speaking English Teachers) in Hong Kong. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction
Andrews, Stephen – 1994
A survey investigated the awareness and knowledge of English grammar among 141 English-as-a-Second-Language teachers and teacher trainees in Hong Kong. The questionnaire: (1) elicited background information on the subjects; (2) asked five open-ended questions designed to explore awareness and understanding of what grammar is; (3) elicited scaled…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar
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Ho, Kwok Keung, Ed. – New Horizons in Education, 2000
This document contains the May and November 2000 issues of "New Horizons in Education," with articles in English and Chinese. The May issue includes the following articles: "A Key to Successful Environmental Education: Teacher Trainees' Attitude, Behaviour, and Knowledge" (Kevin Chung Wai Lui, Eric Po Keung Tsang, Sing Lai…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Dolan, Terry – 1994
In a study of children's reading processes in English, 261 pupils from a Hong Kong Anglo-Chinese school and from an urban comprehensive school in England were given different versions of a text in English and asked to read it silently in preparation for a memory test sometime in the future. Three weeks later, they were tested on story recall.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Elementary Education, English
Hill, Monica – 1999
This study investigated whether or not Hong Kong Chinese adults would benefit from hearing, or phonologically processing, unfamiliar English words upon first encountering them. Participants, who represented different levels of English proficiency, included Chinese undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and adult native speakers of English.…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Coniam, D. – System, 1999
Explores the potential of the use of voice-recognition technology with second-language speakers of English. Involves the analysis of the output produced by a small group of very competent second-language subjects reading a text into the voice recognition software Dragon Systems "Dragon NaturallySpeaking." (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computer Software, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Methods
MacLennan, Carol H. G. – 1991
A series of studies examined the media use habits of Hong Kong students trying to improve their English. Subjects for the first three studies, 138 pre-service student teachers in Hong Kong, completed questionnaires. Frequency of media use provided some indications of students' level of commitment to the study of English. In study four, students…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Activities
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Boyle, Joseph – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Discusses the debate over whether English or Chinese should be the medium of instruction in Hong Kong schools. Recent Government efforts to further Chinese-medium education are outlined in the article, and consideration is given to the effects of the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong in 1997 on the future language of education in the island's schools.…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Change Agents, Chinese, Colonialism
Luk, Jasmine C. M.; Lin, Angel M. Y. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
This book is about native English speakers teaching English as a global language in non-English speaking countries. Through analysis of naturally occurring dialogic encounters, the authors examine the multifaceted ways in which teachers and students utilize diverse communicative resources to construct, display, and negotiate their identities as…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Speech Communication, Learning Motivation
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