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Sze Ching Tsoi; Scott Aubrey – ELT Journal, 2024
This study investigated the impact of student-selected pairs on emotional engagement and language-learning opportunities generated during collaborative tasks. Sixteen learners of English at a Hong Kong secondary school performed collaborative tasks in two pairing arrangements: student-selected pairing and teacher-assigned pairing (mixed…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Wiboolyasarin, Watcharapol; Jinowat, Nattawut; Wiboolyasarin, Kanokpan; Kamonsawad, Ruedee; Tiranant, Phornrat; Boonyakitanont, Poomipat – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
The use of three-dimensional virtual worlds (3DVWs) in language education has been widely acknowledged in the field, and researchers have expressed a growing interest in their proliferation in second language (L2) learning and instruction. In order to improve the Thai-speaking abilities of learners of Thai as a foreign language (TFL) in three…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Peng Zhang; Gemma Tur – Digital Education Review, 2024
Although research has always related e-portfolios to self-regulated learning, recently agency, which includes individual, relational, and contextual domains, has also been highlighted. Likewise, agency has been explored in technological environments that support collaborative and co-design learning processes. This study, investigating the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Chinese, International Schools
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Katagiri, Nozomu Wong – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
The study explores the unaddressed washback on the English-speaking test of the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE-English Language Paper 4). The HKDSE is a university entrance exam in Hong Kong which includes a group discussion speaking test known as English Language Paper 4. To identify ongoing washback effects,…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Testing Problems
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Kohnke, Lucas; Jarvis, Andrew; Ting, Adrian – TESOL Journal, 2021
In recent years, the advent of educational technology has made digital multimodal composing (DMMC) increasingly common among tertiary students. The current small-scale study explored the perceptions of DMMC of 12 undergraduate students enrolled in a discipline-specific English course at an English-medium university in Hong Kong. In particular, the…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Educational Technology, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Jie Wang; Yen Na Yum – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Learners entering higher education may learn specialized vocabulary of new disciplines in their second language (L2) with or without support from their first language (L1). However, these learners cannot rely on an established conceptual representation in L1 when learning L2 specialized vocabulary. The effects of learning a new concept in L1 prior…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transfer of Training, Learning Processes
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Kohnke, Lucas; Foung, Dennis; Chen, Julia – Educational Technology & Society, 2023
This study investigated how English learners complete multimodal formative quizzes. Participants included 17,950 students enrolled in a mandatory English for Academic Purposes course at a university in Hong Kong. We retrieved data from Blackboard, a learning management system, and conducted a two-step cluster analysis to examine student…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Yu, Baohua; Ding, Feng; Yuan, Rui Eric – Educational Studies, 2022
The present study seeks to explore the long-term impact of an overseas immersion programme on pre-service teachers' professional learning in Hong Kong. In-depth interviews with 11 pre-service teachers about their immersion experiences and post-immersion learning revealed their professional gains and challenges brought by their exposure to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Learning Processes, Student Attitudes
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Li, Sandy C.; Poon, Anita Y. K.; Lai, Tony K. H.; Tam, Selena T. C. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2021
This quantitative study was designed to examine how the interplay of middle leadership and other contextual factors such as teachers' receptivity toward the reform and teacher professional development impacts on implementing system-wide English language curriculum reform. Through stratified random sampling, 352 English language teachers from 51…
Descriptors: Correlation, Middle Management, Faculty Development, Context Effect
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Chan, Jim Yee Him – Language Teaching Research, 2021
The past 40 years have witnessed significant developments in ELT research, reflecting the changes in learners' language needs and the extensive development of various language learning/teaching methods in different times and places. The aim of this study is to provide a systematic and comprehensive account of changing ELT methods (oral-structural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wong, Simpson W. L.; Dealey, Jessica; Leung, Vina W. H.; Mok, Peggy P. K. – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Despite English being a core and compulsory part of the curriculum for Chinese English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners, it is nevertheless often highly challenging for them. This is partly due to the discrepancies between English's citation and spoken form and the lack of recognition this pronunciation receives within ESL classrooms. With this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Phonemes
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Wang, Ying – SAGE Open, 2021
This article focuses on authenticity of second language identity which has been at issue. Previous research of the authenticity of second language identity has revealed that second language identity may be inauthentic due to the impact from social context and the individual's competence and desires. The discussion in this article aims at exploring…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns
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Gan, Zhengdong; Hoi, Cathy; Schumacker, Randall – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2019
While assessment for learning (AfL) has been strongly promulgated by an increasing number of education systems internationally, little research is available that investigates students' responses to such AfL innovations, particularly in a Chinese learning context. There is a need to research and evaluate the AfL practices introduced and their…
Descriptors: College Students, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices
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Xian, Liuyan – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
From the perspective of Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory and Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), dynamic assessment (DA) highlights the role of mediation in the learning process by unveiling the distance between actual learning proficiency and potential learning development. DA is more helpful in fostering students' ability to solve problems…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Outcomes of Education
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Ng, Shun Wing; Kwan, Yee Wan; Huey Lei, Ka Hio – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2020
This paper aims to report a case study of exploring the effect of "assessment for learning" on improving student learning and facilitating teachers' professional development in the examination-oriented context of Hong Kong. By adopting Variation Theory of the Lesson Study approach, data were collected through pre- and post-tests,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Faculty Development, Lesson Plans, Teaching Methods
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