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Learning and Communication in Online International Higher Education in Hong Kong: ICT-Mediated Translanguaging Competence and Virtually Translocal Identity
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Amy Wanyu Ou; Mingyue Michelle Gu; John Chi-Kin Lee – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This qualitative study investigated the impact of online education on the learning and peer interaction experiences of students from eight universities in Hong Kong over the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It employed an expansive and spatial notion of translanguaging to explore the process by which students drew on the affordance of virtual…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, International Education, Semiotics
Code Switching and Language Choice in the Hong Kong Legislative Council.
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Yau, Frances Man-siu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Investigates the language choice and code switching behavior of the councilors and officials in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong during 1991-95, within the context of the upcoming transfer of sovereignty in 1997 and the challenges to the old political power relationship. Points out that code switching behavior is part of the negotiation…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Change Strategies, Code Switching (Language), Context Effect
Attitudes towards Languages and Code-Mixing in Hong Kong.
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Gibbons, John P. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1983
Examines, through a matched-guise technique, the conflict in attitudes and behavior toward the use of a mixture of Cantonese and English (MIX) among English-Cantonese bilingual students in Hong Kong. Results indicate hostility toward MIX but produce evidence that it is a useful, culturally neutral choice and that it may have covert status in the…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Influences, English