An analysis of the language proficiency assessment for teachers in Hong Kong

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai-yin Kung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Proficiency Assessment

Language and Interpersonal Resource Predictors of Psychological and Sociocultural Adaptation: International Students in Hong Kong

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 572-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baohua Yu ◽  
Peter Bodycott ◽  
Anita S. Mak
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
International Students ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Sociocultural Adaptation ◽  
Cross Cultural Adaptation ◽  
And Coping

Hong Kong, along with other Asian societies with universities with top world rankings, has in recent years attracted an increasing number of international students, mainly from Asia. Previous research in English-speaking Western countries has indicated the importance of resources, including language proficiency, positive intergroup relations, and social support, in understanding international students’ stress and coping in cross-cultural adaptation. Guided by a similar acculturative stress and coping framework, we investigated predictors of psychological and sociocultural adaptation in a survey sample of 726 international students (62% female and 73% Asian-born) from Hong Kong public universities. We found that English language proficiency, social support, and a low level of perceived discrimination fostered both types of cross-cultural adaptation, while contact with local students and proficiency in the local dialect further enhanced sociocultural adaptation. Implications for future acculturation research and higher education internationalization policies and practices are discussed.

Second Language Proficiency Assessment: Current Issues

1989 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 489
Author(s):  
Alice Omaggio Hadley ◽  
Pardee Lowe ◽  
Charles W. Stansfield
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Second Language Proficiency ◽  
Proficiency Assessment
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