published_or_final_version / Language Studies / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / English Studies / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / English Studies / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

Lam Tsui-shan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 198-210). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- The Setting of the Present Research --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Research on Second/Foreign Language (SL/FL) Classroom Interaction --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- Research on English Classroom Interaction in Hong Kong --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Rationale and Significance --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3 --- Organisation of This Thesis --- p.7 / Chapter 2 --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Origins and Development --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Communicative Competence: Framework --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Communicative Competence: Theoretical Approaches in Language Teacl --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.3.1 --- The interactional approach --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.3.2 --- The discoursal approach --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2.3.3 --- The fluency-based approach --- p.17 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Communicative Competence: Practical Issues --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2.4.1 --- The interactional approach: The role of output --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2.4.2 --- The discoursal approach: The need of information gap --- p.22 / Chapter 2.2.4.3 --- The fluency-based approach: The measurement of fluency --- p.23 / Chapter 2.2.5 --- The Communicative Language Teaching in Hong Kong --- p.25 / Chapter 2.2.5.1 --- The development of CLT in English classroom --- p.25 / Chapter 2.2.5.2 --- Attitudes toward CLT and the actual practice: A dilemma --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3 --- Classroom Interaction and Language Learning --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- The Role of Interaction --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3.1.1 --- Comprehensible input and its development --- p.30 / Chapter 2.3.1.2 --- Negotiation --- p.33 / Chapter 2.3.1.3 --- Output --- p.35 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Actual Interactional Patterns in Classroom: The Interactive Goals --- p.37 / Chapter 2.3.2.1 --- Core Goals --- p.37 / Chapter 2.3.2.2 --- Framework Goals --- p.42 / Chapter 2.3.2.3 --- Social Goals --- p.43 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Desired Classroom Interactional Patterns --- p.45 / Chapter 2.3.3.1 --- The Two Complementary Modes --- p.45 / Chapter 2.3.3.2 --- "The Triangular Elements: Play, Work and Learning" --- p.47 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Aspects of Teacher-Learner (T-L) Interaction --- p.49 / Chapter 2.3.4.1 --- Teacher roles --- p.49 / Chapter 2.3.4.2 --- Learner roles --- p.51 / Chapter 2.3.4.3 --- Teacher talk --- p.52 / Chapter 2.3.4.4 --- Student talk --- p.57 / Chapter 2.3.4.5 --- Turns of talk --- p.60 / Chapter 2.4 --- Classroom Interaction and Second Language Learners --- p.63 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Learner Autonomy --- p.64 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Learner Anxiety --- p.65 / Chapter 2.5 --- English Language Classroom Interaction in Hong Kong --- p.67 / Chapter 2.5.1 --- Analyzing Input and Interaction in Language Classrooms --- p.67 / Chapter 2.5.2 --- Communication Failure in the English Classroom --- p.69 / Chapter 2.5.3 --- The Five Second Language Discourses --- p.70 / Chapter 2.5.4 --- Students' Participation in Language Classroom --- p.72 / Chapter 2.5.5 --- Research Gaps in Hong Kong: Significance of Students' Voices --- p.73 / Chapter 2.6 --- Chapter Summary --- p.75 / Chapter 3 --- METHODOLOGY --- p.77 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.77 / Chapter 3.2 --- Selection of Subjects --- p.78 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- School --- p.78 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Class --- p.78 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Teacher --- p.79 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Students --- p.80 / Chapter 3.3 --- Research Instruments --- p.81 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- "Non-participant, Ethnographic Observations" --- p.81 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Stimulated Recall and Semi-structured Interviews --- p.82 / Chapter 3.4 --- Design of the Study --- p.83 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Stage One: Data Collection --- p.83 / Chapter 3.4.1.1 --- Classroom observations --- p.83 / Chapter 3.4.1.2 --- Students' interviews --- p.84 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Stage Two: Data Analysis --- p.85 / Chapter 3.5 --- Methods of Data Analysis --- p.86 / Chapter 3.5.1 --- Analysing the Classroom Discourse Data --- p.86 / Chapter 3.5.2 --- Analysing the Interview Data --- p.87 / Chapter 3.6 --- Chapter Summary --- p.88 / Chapter 4 --- DATA ANALYSIS --- p.89 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.90 / Chapter 4.2 --- Classroom Interactional Patterns: The General Picture --- p.90 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Teacher's and Students' Talk --- p.90 / Chapter 4.2.1.1 --- At the utterance level --- p.91 / Chapter 4.2.1.2 --- Language choice --- p.92 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Teacher's and Students' Turn Allocation --- p.93 / Chapter 4.2.2.1 --- Amounts of turns taken --- p.93 / Chapter 4.2.2.2 --- Turn-taking patterns --- p.95 / Chapter 4.3 --- Teacher-Learner Verbal Interaction: An Overview --- p.95 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Types of Teacher Talk --- p.95 / Chapter 4.3.1.1 --- """Teacher-initiate""" --- p.95 / Chapter 4.3.1.2 --- """Teacher-respond""" --- p.98 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Types of Student Talk --- p.98 / Chapter 4.3.2.1 --- """Pupil-initiate""" --- p.99 / Chapter 4.3.2.2 --- """Pupil-respond""" --- p.100 / Chapter 4.4 --- A Brief Summary on the Classroom Discourse Data --- p.100 / Chapter 4.5 --- Findings Based on Students' Interview Data --- p.101 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Students Asking Questions in English Classroom --- p.102 / Chapter 4.5.1.1 --- Reasons for taking the initiative to ask questions --- p.102 / Chapter 4.5.1.2 --- Moments of raising hand to ask questions --- p.102 / Chapter 4.5.1.3 --- Reasons for not asking questions in English --- p.103 / Chapter 4.5.1.4 --- Reasons for not asking questions in class --- p.103 / Chapter 4.5.1.5 --- Expectations about teacher's answers --- p.104 / Chapter 4.5.1.6 --- Learning from asking questions --- p.104 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Students answering questions in English classroom --- p.105 / Chapter 4.5.2.1 --- Reasons for taking the initiative to answer questions --- p.105 / Chapter 4.5.2.2 --- Reasons for calling out the answer without teacher's nomination --- p.106 / Chapter 4.5.2.3 --- Reasons for answering in private turns --- p.106 / Chapter 4.5.2.4 --- Reasons for nodding or shaking head to answer questions --- p.107 / Chapter 4.5.2.5 --- Reasons for not taking the initiative in answering questions --- p.108 / Chapter 4.5.2.6 --- Learning from answering questions --- p.109 / Chapter 4.5.3 --- Teacher-Learner Interaction and Classroom Learning --- p.109 / Chapter 4.5.3.1 --- Motivating factors for speaking (in English) in class --- p.109 / Chapter 4.5.3.2 --- Types of classroom atmosphere encouraging verbal interactions --- p.110 / Chapter 4.5.3.3 --- Positive effects of verbal interactions in classroom learning --- p.111 / Chapter 4.5.3.4 --- De-motivating factors for speaking (in English) in class --- p.112 / Chapter 4.5.3.5 --- Types of classroom atmosphere discouraging verbal interactions(in English)in class --- p.113 / Chapter 4.5.3.6 --- Negative effects of non-verbal interactions in classroom learning --- p.113 / Chapter 4.5.3.7 --- Positive effects of non-verbal interactions in classroom learning --- p.114 / Chapter 4.5.3.8 --- Things in mind when learning in silence --- p.114 / Chapter 4.5.4 --- Students' Suggestions for English Teacher --- p.115 / Chapter 4.5.4.1 --- Influences of teacher's image --- p.115 / Chapter 4.5.4.2 --- Expected images and roles of the English teacher in the classroom --- p.116 / Chapter 4.5.4.3 --- Suggested actions to promote T-L interaction --- p.117 / Chapter 4.5.4.4 --- Suggested actions to promote speaking English in class --- p.118 / Chapter 4.6 --- A Brief Summary on the Student Interview Data --- p.119 / Chapter 5 --- DISCUSSION --- p.120 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.120 / Chapter 5.2 --- Students' Participation in English Classroom: An Overview --- p.120 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Types of Teachers' Elicitation and Students' Responses --- p.121 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Types of Students' Elicitation and Teachers' Responses --- p.124 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Language Choice of the Students --- p.126 / Chapter 5.3 --- Non-verbal Participation in Classroom Interaction --- p.130 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Students' Non-verbal Participation in Answering and Asking Questions --- p.131 / Chapter 5.3.1.1 --- Reasons for answering questions in private turns --- p.131 / Chapter 5.3.1.2 --- Reasons for using body language or games to answer questions --- p.133 / Chapter 5.3.1.3 --- Reasons for not taking the initiative to answer questions --- p.134 / Chapter 5.3.1.4 --- Reasons for not taking the initiative to ask questions in class --- p.141 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- De-motivating Factors for Speaking in Class: A Review --- p.144 / Chapter 5.3.2.1 --- Students' anxiety in ESL classroom --- p.145 / Chapter 5.3.2.2 --- Teacher's influences on students' non-verbal participation --- p.148 / Chapter 5.4 --- Verbal Participation in Classroom Interaction --- p.153 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Students Verbal Participation in Answering and Asking Questions --- p.154 / Chapter 5.4.1.1 --- Reasons for taking the initiative to ask questions --- p.154 / Chapter 5.4.1.2 --- Reasons for not speaking in English --- p.155 / Chapter 5.4.1.3 --- Reasons for taking the initiative to answer questions --- p.158 / Chapter 5.4.1.4 --- Reasons for shouting out the answer --- p.160 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Motivating Factors for Speaking in Class: A Study on Teacher's Influence --- p.162 / Chapter 5.4.2.1 --- Expected roles of an English teacher in classroom interaction --- p.163 / Chapter 5.4.2.2 --- Encouraging students' English verbal participation in classroom --- p.171 / Chapter 5.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.180 / Chapter 6 --- CONCLUSION --- p.183 / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.183 / Chapter 6.2 --- A Summary of the Research Objectives and Findings --- p.183 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Revisiting Research Objectives --- p.183 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Summarising Research Findings --- p.184 / Chapter 6.2.2.1 --- Classroom discourse data --- p.184 / Chapter 6.2.2.2 --- Student interview data --- p.185 / Chapter 6.3 --- Pedagogical Implications --- p.190 / Chapter 6.4 --- Research Limitations --- p.193 / Chapter 6.5 --- Suggestions for Future Research --- p.194 / Chapter 6.6 --- Chapter Summary --- p.196 / REFERENCES --- p.198 / APPENDICES --- p.211 / Chapter A --- An Overview of the English Language Classroom Interaction Research in Hong --- p.211 / Chapter B --- "Tsui's "" Seventeen-Category System"" and Its Illustration" --- p.213 / Chapter C --- Percentage of Partially and Totally Unintelligible Utterances of the Teachers and --- p.214 / Chapter D --- Relative Population and Distribution of Forty-eight Student Interviewees --- p.215 / Chapter E --- The Codes of the Forty-eight Student Interviewees --- p.216 / Chapter F --- Summary of Students' Explanations for Their Non-verbal Participation --- p.217 / Chapter G --- Summary of Students' Explanations for Their Verbal Participation --- p.218 / Chapter H --- Diagram 2. The Flow of Possible Worries in Students' Mind When They Are to Answer Teacher's Question --- p.219 / Chapter I --- Diagram 3. Possible Things in Students' Mind When They Have A Question in Mind --- p.220

"September 2004." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-231) / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

This study investigates critical thinking skills of secondary school students in Hong Kong. It focuses on one specific subject of Liberal Studies, that has been one of the four core subjects in the New Senior Secondary curriculum since 2009. Most Hong Kong schools that use English Language as the medium of instruction conduct the lesson and assessment in the students’ second language. The assessments (public examination) include two written examinations (Paper 1: Data-based questions and Paper 2: Extended-response questions) and one Independent Enquiry Studies task accomplished under the guidance of a teacher. Critical thinking is regarded as one of the core skills that students need to master and demonstrate during the lessons and assessments (CDC, 2007). According to the Curriculum guide (CDC, 2007), the design of the curriculum and assessment framework for this subject “has taken into account overseas experiences in cross-disciplinary studies, pertaining in particular to critical thinking, life education, values education and civic education, with due consideration given to their relevance in the Hong Kong context”. Yet, the guide fails to examine the possible difficulties and challenges for Hong Kong students to acquire and demonstrate critical thinking through their second language. This study attempts to analyze whether predominantly Cantonese-speaking students can acquire and express critical thinking in an English-medium classroom. One of the central arguments of this paper is that while the mastery of critical thinking is rather abstract, whether a student can acquire critical thinking skills is assessed by more concrete measurements (written public examinations) which are largely dependable on the student’s ability to communicate effectively in English. Therefore, this study draws on first-hand data from the 2013 Liberal Studies Practice Paper. Sample scripts chosen by the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority and the relevant marking guidelines are employed to aid the discussion. / published_or_final_version / English Studies / Master / Master of Arts