Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1982.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

M.Phil. / With this study the better understanding of the skills in, the background with relation to and the attitude towards communicative Afrikaans of .a specific group of Public Administration students of the Technikon Northern-Transvaal is investigated. The focus is principally on the socio-cultural factors that influence the mastering of Afrikaans. The reseach design, including the problem identification, is vested in the theoretical Vygotskyan concept of zone of proximal development. Founded on the theories of both MM Bakhtin and LS Vygotsky, the researcher establishes an own interpretation of the zone of proximal development, when she proposes an integration thereof with the H-model as thought heuristics (Henning 1996). According to this integrated model, the study of students' zone of proximal development in Afrikaans as foreign language encompasses the study of: their language skills; their knowledge of the language; personal and socio-cultural influences; and their metalinguistic skills. This exposition serves as framework for data gathering, data analysis and chapter division. The format of the study is that of case studies which implies that an in-depth investigation is done of various types of data - obtained from a quantitatively small, but sociologically representative group of Public Adminsitration students, The various types of data which are referred to, are: data from talks delivered; written texts; data from listening and reading protocols; and data from interviews. With the interpretation of the data an attempt is not only made to come to an own understanding ("verstehen" - Weber (1958)) of the community of learners' experience and usage of Afrikaans, but also to cultivate a sensitivity for this with the wider teaching and research community.

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Chui Sze Yan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-105). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.1 / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.iii / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Background of the Present Study --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- A Response: The Present Study --- p.3 / Chapter 1.4 --- Significance of the Study --- p.3 / Chapter 1.5 --- Research Questions --- p.4 / Chapter 1.6 --- Organization of Thesis --- p.5 / Chapter 1.7 --- Summary --- p.6 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- LITERATURE REVIEW / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.7 / Chapter 2.2 --- Vocabulary and Vocabulary Knowledge --- p.7 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- "The notion of ""word""" --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- "What does ""knowing a word"" mean?" --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2.2.1 --- Richards' eight assumptions --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2.2.2 --- Carter's seven characteristics --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2.2.3 --- Nation's model --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3 --- L2 Vocabulary Acquisition --- p.14 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Development of L2 mental lexicon --- p.14 / Chapter 2.3.1.1 --- L1 versus L2 --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.1.2 --- Receptive vocabulary versus productive vocabulary --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- How vocabulary should be learnt: Explicit versus implicit --- p.17 / Chapter 2.4 --- Vocabulary Testing --- p.20 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- What makes a good vocabulary test --- p.20 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Breadth versus depth: Some implications for test design --- p.22 / Chapter 2.4.2.1 --- Meara's Eurocentres Vocabulary Size Test --- p.22 / Chapter 2.4.2.2 --- Nation's Vocabulary Levels Test --- p.23 / Chapter 2.4.2.3 --- Wesche and Paribakht's Vocabulary Knowledge Scale --- p.25 / Chapter 2.4.2.4 --- Read's Word Associates Test --- p.26 / Chapter 2.5 --- Educational Context in Hong Kong --- p.28 / Chapter 2.5.1 --- Medium of instruction --- p.29 / Chapter 2.5.2 --- English vocabulary teaching in secondary schools --- p.31 / Chapter 2.5.3 --- Vocabulary studies on Hong Kong tertiary students --- p.33 / Chapter 2.6 --- Summary --- p.35 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- RESEARCH DESIGN / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2 --- Participants --- p.38 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Selection of participants --- p.38 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Profile of participants --- p.40 / Chapter 3.3 --- Instrumentation --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Vocabulary breadth measure --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Vocabulary depth measure --- p.45 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Personal information sheet --- p.48 / Chapter 3.4 --- Procedures --- p.48 / Chapter 3.5 --- Data Analysis --- p.51 / Chapter 3.6 --- Summary --- p.52 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- RESULTS / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.53 / Chapter 4.2 --- Vocabulary Breadth --- p.53 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Overall performance of Hong Kong university students --- p.54 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Comparing performance of students with different educational backgrounds --- p.55 / Chapter 4.2.2.1 --- Hong Kong students and mainland China students --- p.55 / Chapter 4.2.2.2 --- Form 6 students and Form 7 students --- p.57 / Chapter 4.2.2.3 --- Students in the three faculties --- p.59 / Chapter 4.2.2.4 --- Students studying through different medium of instruction in secondary schools --- p.62 / Chapter 4.3 --- Vocabulary Depth --- p.66 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Performance in different aspects of vocabulary knowledge --- p.67 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Relationship between different aspects of vocabulary knowledge and sentence production --- p.68 / Chapter 4.4 --- Summary --- p.69 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- DISCUSSION / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.71 / Chapter 5.2 --- Vocabulary Size of University Students in Hong Kong --- p.71 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- General vocabulary --- p.71 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Academic vocabulary --- p.73 / Chapter 5.3 --- Comparison Between the Present Results and Past Studies Conducted in Hong Kong --- p.76 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Littlewood and Liu (1996) --- p.76 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Fan (2001) --- p.77 / Chapter 5.4 --- Differences in Vocabulary Breadth --- p.79 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Hong Kong students and mainland China students --- p.79 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Form 6 students and Form 7 students --- p.80 / Chapter 5.4.3 --- The faculty factor --- p.81 / Chapter 5.4.4 --- The medium of instruction factor --- p.83 / Chapter 5.5 --- Insights from Students' Quality of Knowledge of Academic Words --- p.84 / Chapter 5.5.1 --- Negligence of morphology and collocation in English vocabulary teaching --- p.84 / Chapter 5.5.2 --- Importance of morphology and collocation for sentence production --- p.86 / Chapter 5.5.3 --- Enhancing effectiveness by incorporating explicit vocabulary teaching into implicit vocabulary learning --- p.87 / Chapter 5.6 --- Summary --- p.92 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- CONCLUSION / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.93 / Chapter 6.2 --- Implications of the Present Study --- p.93 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Recommendation to the university --- p.93 / Chapter 6.2.1.1 --- Compulsory academic vocabulary courses to first-year university students --- p.93 / Chapter 6.2.1.2 --- Policy on students from mainland China --- p.94 / Chapter 6.2.1.3 --- Policy on Form 6 EAS students --- p.94 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Recommendation to secondary school English language teachers --- p.95 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Recommendation to the government --- p.96 / Chapter 6.2.4 --- Recommendation to Hong Kong university students --- p.97 / Chapter 6.3 --- Limitations of the Present Study --- p.97 / Chapter 6.4 --- Suggestions for Further Research --- p.99 / Chapter 6.5 --- Summary --- p.100 / REFERENCES --- p.101