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Healey, Brett; Gardner, Paul – Language Awareness, 2023
The abstract nature of grammar makes metalinguistic thinking a challenge for both teachers and students. However, it is suggested writing conferences in which students are encouraged to reflect on grammatical choices and their impact on meaning may be an effective means to develop metalinguistic awareness. This paper draws on cognitive linguistics…
Descriptors: Grammar, Metalinguistics, Conferences (Gatherings), Writing (Composition)
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Qiuzhi Xie; Yuyang Cai; Susanna Siu-sze Yeung – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study aims to advance our understanding of the role of word knowledge in second language (L2) reading comprehension by exploring whether morphological awareness and vocabulary assessed one year ago contribute to decoding and listening comprehension which in turn contribute to reading comprehension in Chinese children learning English as an…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chen, Hsueh Chu; Han, Qian Wen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
According to the speech learning model [Flege, J. E. (1995). Second language speech learning: Theory, findings, and problems. In W. Strange (Ed.), "Speech perception and linguistic experience: Issues in cross-language research" (pp. 233-277). York Press], learners whose first language (L1) is a tonal language (e.g. Cantonese) can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Sino Tibetan Languages, Mandarin Chinese
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Tong, Xiuhong; Kwan, Joyce Lok Yin; Xiuli Tong, Shelley; Deacon, S. Hélène – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
Syntax, or sentence structure, plays a role in reading comprehension, but how students draw on their awareness of syntax in their reading remains unclear; the mechanism is even more ambiguous in bilingual students. In this study, we evaluated the direct and indirect contributions of syntactic awareness on first-language Chinese and second-language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Chinese, English (Second Language)
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Brian W. L. Wong; Hau Ching Lam; Julia Wing Ka Lo; Urs Maurer; Shuting Huo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
While extensive quantitative research has shed light on the cognitive mechanisms of dyslexia, few mixed-methods studies have been conducted to examine the perceptions of and attitudes towards learning in children with dyslexia, especially in Hong Kong, a bilingual context. In addition, the validity of the metaphor elicitation technique, which was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Chinese, Dyslexia
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Jack Pun; Xuesong Gao – Language Awareness, 2024
Despite the increasing use of English as a medium of instruction (EMI), teachers who teach at EMI schools encounter significant challenges, such as difficulties in teaching content-subjects in English and students' limited understanding of content presented in English. To examine the extent of these challenges, six early-full and 14 late-partial…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Metalinguistics, Language of Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Weiyi Li; Jookyoung Jung – Language Awareness, 2024
The present study investigated how Cantonese speakers learning English as a second language (L2) would comprehend English irony and whether their L2 proficiency and use would moderate their irony processing. Thirty Cantonese speakers with differing English proficiency (intermediate vs advanced) were asked to complete an irony comprehension task in…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language
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Lee, Carmen – Applied Linguistics, 2023
This paper probes alternative meanings and processes for decolonizing English that arise from the particular geopolitical histories and identities of Hong Kong and engagement with political and translingual activism. I illustrate the positioning and tension between English, 'Kongish' (a mix of English and localized linguistic resources in Hong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Chinese, Decolonization
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Hung, Cathy On-Ying; Loh, Elizabeth Ka-Yee – Educational Psychology, 2021
The present study aims to examine the contribution of cognitive flexibility to metalinguistic skills and reading comprehension during primary school years. Forty-nine third-grade primary school children completed the measures of cognitive flexibility, metalinguistic skills including syntactic awareness (word order knowledge), morphosyntactic skill…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Metalinguistics, Executive Function, Reading Comprehension
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Yuen Yi Lo; Weijun Liang – Language Awareness, 2024
In bilingual education programmes, teachers, particularly content subject teachers, play an important role in helping students master content knowledge and the target language simultaneously. In this regard, teachers' language awareness, which will affect their pedagogical practices, is crucial. Collaboration between content subject and language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Collaboration, Metalinguistics, Teaching Methods
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Wang, Lei; Liu, Duo – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2020
In this study, we examined the mechanism for the relationship between morphological awareness and Chinese character reading in a group of Hong Kong primary school children when they were in grade two (n = 176, mean age = 8.07) and grade three (n = 163, mean age = 9.02). The results showed that morphological awareness, morpheme family size and the…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Elementary School Students
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Lianjiang Jiang; Xiaoyue Zhang; Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
While the importance of linguistically responsive teaching (LRT) in multilingual classrooms is well documented, preservice English teachers' conceptions of LRT and the pertinent sociocultural processes that shape their LRT conceptions and practices remain under-researched. Qualitatively examining the experiences and understandings of 15 preservice…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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Zhou, Yan-Ling – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This study examined how a dialogic reading (DR) program with a component of multisensory learning (MS) of Chinese characters improved early Chinese reading and writing skills in L2 Chinese-speaking kindergarteners in Hong Kong. The DR + MS program was compared to the same DR program but focusing on morphological awareness (MA) training. A total of…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Literacy, Chinese, Kindergarten
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Peichang (Emily) He; Angel M. Y. Lin – Language Awareness, 2024
This article drew on the recent dynamic, distributed view of "translanguaging and flows" and the New Materiality view of meaning making to explore content and language integrated learning (CLIL) activities in an English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) secondary Science classroom. Fine-grained analysis of the multilingual and multimodal…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ron Darvin; Yue Zhang – Language Awareness, 2023
Drawing on the pedagogical framework of critical multilingual language awareness, this article demonstrates how the production of a YouTube video explaining lexical gaps can help language learners construct a translanguaging space and invest in decolonizing practices. Based on a study examining the language and literacy practices of university…
Descriptors: Translation, Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning
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