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Miller, Lindsay – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
This article explores how Hong Kong Chinese engineering students with low English language proficiency manage to cope with their lectures given in English. An ethnographic case study approach was used with multiple sources of data triangulated to provide a picture of the lecture event from both the students' and the lecturer's perspectives. One of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
Flowerdew, John; Miller, Lindsay – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1992
An ethnographic approach to the study of second-language lecture comprehension was used to study 30 first-year Hong Kong Chinese students in a Teaching-English-as-a-Second-Language course. Results indicate student attitudes, problems, and their approaches to overcoming the problems. (17 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Coping, English (Second Language), Ethnography, Foreign Countries