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Direct linkAlice Hoi Ying Yau; D. Fung; A. Tsang – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2024
Despite the rapid growth of English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education, little research has been conducted to pinpoint the challenges faced by students. This quantitative study explored the challenges posed by the secondary-tertiary transition to first-year students with different English proficiency levels in EMI higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Student Adjustment
Evans, Stephen; Morrison, Bruce – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
Research into the medium of instruction (MOI) in Hong Kong has traditionally focused on years 7-9; thus, little is known about school policies and classroom practices in the crucial senior-secondary years which fall beyond the ambit of government diktats. This lacuna is particularly conspicuous in the case of Chinese-medium schools, whose students…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Sino Tibetan Languages
Yau, Hon Keung; Cheng, Alison Lai Fong – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
There are three dimensions through which to measure university support for students' transition to university life: academic adjustment, social adjustment and psychological adjustment. Previous research studies show that there are relationships among those adjustments. However, less is known about gender differences in these relationships. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Gender Differences, College Freshmen
Cheung, Alan C. K. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine language, academic, social-cultural and financial adjustments facing mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach: The current study employed both quantitative and qualitative methods and included over 300 mainland Chinese students from seven major universities in Hong Kong.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
Evans, Stephen; Morrison, Bruce – English for Specific Purposes, 2011
This article examines the language-related challenges that first-year students face when adjusting to the demands of English-medium higher education in Hong Kong. The article is based on the findings of a longitudinal study which tracked the university careers of 28 students from a range of backgrounds via in-depth, semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Higher Education, Intervals, Learning Strategies
Chapman, Anne; Pyvis, David – Teaching in Higher Education, 2006
This paper reports the findings of qualitative case studies aimed at exploring student experiences of offshore programmes delivered in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia by Australian universities. The paper draws on a cross-case analysis of the studies to develop propositions about student experience and identity formation in the context of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKember, David – Studies in Higher Education, 2001
Interviewed novice and experienced, part-time students in Hong Kong about their teaching and learning beliefs. Novice students with didactic/reproductive beliefs about teaching and learning found it difficult to adjust to higher education if the teaching was not expository; more experienced students tended to hold facilitative/transformative…
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Students, Epistemology, Foreign Countries
