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Direct linkWen, Zhisheng; McNeill, Arthur; Mota, Mailce Borges – Language Teaching, 2014
Organized under the auspices of the "Language Learning" Roundtable Conference Grant (2012), this seminar aimed to provide an interactive forum for a group of second language acquisition (SLA) researchers with particular interests in cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics to discuss key theoretical and methodological issues in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Seminars, Second Language Learning, Psycholinguistics
Download full textDolan, 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
Lau, Ivy Cheuk-yin; Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; Jin, Putai – 1998
A study investigated the nature of college students' English-as-a-second-language self-concept using a hierarchical, multidimensional model of self-concept. Subjects were 306 students in a Hong Kong higher education institution responding to a self-concept questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) replicated previous findings that a global…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Pennington, Martha C. – 1998
An analysis of classroom discourse proposes four frames, modeled as concentric circles. The inner most circle is the lesson frame, removed or sheltered from outside influences and most likely, in a language class, to maintain second-language usage. The next frame from the center is the lesson-support frame, an intermediate layer of classroom…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Code Switching (Language)
Jones, Rodney H. – 1995
A study explored the issues of cultural identity and interaction in public health discourse concerning Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Hong Kong's multilingual, multicultural social context. Twenty public service announcements (PSAs) concerning AIDS awareness televised in both English and Cantonese in Hong Kong from 1987 to 1994 were…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Behavior Standards, Chinese, Communication Problems
Bird, Norman, Ed.; And Others – 1994
Papers from a 1993 International Conference on Language in Education include: "A Language Development Approach to Education" (M. A. K. Halliday); Text, Talk, and Inquiry: Schooling as a Semiotic Apprenticeship" (G. Wells); "Chinese Orthography and Reading" (O. J. L. Tzeng); "Task-Centred Assessment in Language…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies
