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Production of English Connected Speech Processes: An Assessment of Cantonese ESL Learners' Difficulties Obtaining Native-Like Speech
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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
Assessing Learning Control of English Hedges among Tertiary Cantonese-Speaking EFL Students
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Siu, Fiona Kwai-peng – Online Submission, 2014
This project was designed to try to investigate the difficulties EFL learners would have in learning to use hedging as a rhetorical device in academic writing. The participants were 136 native Cantonese-speaking EFL students who enrolled in the one-year course "English for Academic Purposes" offered by a language centre at a university…
Descriptors: College Students, Sino Tibetan Languages, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Teachers' Grammar on the Electronic Highway: Design Criteria for "Telegram."
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Wu, Kamyin; Tsui, Amy B. M. – System, 1997
Discusses the rationale and criteria for developing "Telegram," an electronic grammar database for English-as-a- Second-Language teachers in Hong Kong. Describes the importance of explicit grammatical knowledge in effective language teaching, and describes the design criteria for "Telegram," which aims to provide a body of…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Databases, Educational Technology, Electronic Classrooms