NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 7 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Li, Hui; Wu, Dandan; Liang, Luyao; Jing, Mengguo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study elicited and analyzed all the Chinese and English interrogatives from the Singapore Early Child Mandarin Corpus (132 children aged 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, and 5;6) to examine the effects and predictors of early bilingual development in Singapore preschoolers. The results indicated that: (1) there was significant age (but not gender) effect in…
Descriptors: Prediction, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Yang, Weipeng; Li, Yongyan; Zhou, Wumei; Li, Hui – ECNU Review of Education, 2020
Purpose: Learning to do research has been understudied in the context of professional development in postgraduate programs. This exploratory study investigated the agency and experiences of five Chinese students who learned to design their research project in a Master of Education program at an English-medium university in Hong Kong SAR.…
Descriptors: Research Design, Personal Autonomy, Student Experience, Graduate Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Li, Hui; Wu, Dandan; Degotardi, Sheila; Chik, Alice – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explored the family language policy, parental beliefs, and bilingual parenting in Beijing, a typical monolingual society. Stratified random sampling was conducted to recruit 192 parents of Chinese preschoolers (ages 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, and 5.5 years). They were surveyed with the "Home Language Environment and Practices" (HLEP)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Family Relationship, Language Usage, Parent Child Relationship
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wu, Dandan; Cai, Liman; Liang, Luyao; Li, Hui – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explored the patterns and predictors of code-switching (CS) in Singapore preschoolers by analyzing the data elicited from an existing early childhood corpus. Altogether 943 cases of CS produced by 111 children aged 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, 5;6, respectively, were analyzed. The results indicated that: (1) 'insertion', 'intersentential', and…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Code Switching (Language), Computational Linguistics, Age Differences
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Li, Yongyan; Li, Danling; Yang, Weipeng; Li, Hui – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
This paper reports a case study of the manifestation of the teaching-research nexus in a research-active professor's classroom teaching of a research methods course targeting a cohort of Master of Education (MEd) students in early childhood education (ECE). The study was conducted at a research-intensive English-medium university in Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Early Childhood Education, Research, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Zou, Bin; Li, Hui; Li, Jiaying – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
Mobile apps are broadly used by students in and after class to improve their language skills. This study aimed to investigate how a curriculum app and a social communication app can be integrated into English language teaching and learning and what sorts of tasks can be employed to enhance learners' EFL learning. A curriculum app was created by…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Shimpi, Priya M.; Paik, Jae H.; Wanerman, Todd; Johnson, Rebecca; Li, Hui; Duh, Shinchieh – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2015
The current English-language research and educational program was driven by an initiative to create a more interactive, theme-based bilingual language education model for preschools in Chengdu, China. During a 2-week teacher education program centered at the Experimental Kindergarten of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Chengdu, China, a team of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries