Patterns of language use in a bilingual classroom at an international primary school in Hong Kong

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Feng Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Bilingual Classroom

Narrative skills and genre knowledge: Ways of telling in the primary school grades

1990 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Silent Film ◽  
Primary Grade ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
Narrative Skills ◽  
On Line ◽  
Genre Knowledge

ABSTRACTChildren in the preschool years develop a linguisticrepertoireof narrative skills as they adapt their ways of representing events to different occasions of language use. The present study examines the abilities of primary school children to draw upon their repertoire of narrative skills in the service of language tasks. Children in grades K-2 were shown a shortened version of the silent film,The Red Balloon, and were asked to perform three narrative tasks: (a) produce an on-line narration of a 3-minute segment from the film, (b) recount the film's events as a news report, and (c) recount the film's events as an embellished story. The narrative texts produced for each task were subjected to analyses of linguistic markers of genre differences. The findings revealed very subtle distinctions between the narrative texts produced for the three genre tasks, leading to the conclusion that primary grade children have only nascent ability to apply their genre knowledge to school language tasks.

English language schooling, linguistic realities, and the native speaker of English in Hong Kong

Multilingua ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jette G. Hansen Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Government School ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

AbstractThe study employs a case study approach to examine the impact of educational backgrounds on nine Hong Kong tertiary students’ English and Cantonese language practices and identifications as native speakers of English and Cantonese. The study employed both survey and interview data to probe the participants’ English and Cantonese language use at home, school, and with peers/friends. Leung, Harris, and Rampton’s (1997, The idealized native speaker, reified ethnicities, and classroom realities.TESOL Quarterly 31(3). 543–560) framework of language affiliation, language expertise, and inheritance was used to examine the construction of a native language identity in a multilingual setting. The study found that educational background – and particularly international school experience in contrast to local government school education – had an impact on the participants’ English language usage at home and with peers, and also affected their language expertise in Cantonese. English language use at school also impacted their identifications as native speakers of both Cantonese and English, with Cantonese being viewed largely as native language based on inheritance while English was being defined as native based on their language expertise, affiliation and use, particularly in contrast to their expertise in, affiliation with, and use of Cantonese.

Prevalence and associations of myopia in Hong Kong primary school students

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Nga Kwan Choy ◽  
Qisheng You ◽  
Ming Ming Zhu ◽  
Jimmy Shiu Ming Lai ◽  
Alex Lap Ki Ng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students

A Smoking Intervention Programme for Primary School Students in Hong Kong

1995 ◽  
pp. 665-667
Author(s):  
C. L. Betson ◽  
T. H. Lam ◽  
J. Peters ◽  
A. J. Hedley ◽  
C. M. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
Intervention Programme ◽  
School Students ◽  
Smoking Intervention
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