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"Poor boys"? --gendered learning experience in the English subject in Hong Kong.

Lui, Wai Shan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-155). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Title --- p.i / Abstract --- p.iii / 論文摘要 --- p.iii / Acknowledgments --- p.iv / Table of Contents --- p.v / Chapter Section One: --- "The Research Question, theoretical context and methodological considerations" / Chapter Chapter One --- The ´بLanguage Education' Question --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction: The Gendered Achievement Gap in English --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- The Research roblematic --- p.6 / Chapter 1.3 --- Form One Students in a Band One EMI Working Class School in Hong Kong --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter Two --- Gender and English as a Second/Foreign Language Education Studies in Contexts / Chapter 2.1 --- Theoretical Contexts: From Male Dominated Subjects to Female Dominated Subjects --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2 --- Borrowing Frameworks from Gender and Mathematics and Science Education Studies --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3 --- Research Questions --- p.33 / Chapter 2.4 --- Structure of this Report --- p.37 / Chapter Chapter Three --- Making the Familiar Strange --- p.40 / Chapter 3.1 --- Ethnography at Home: Tension and Inspiration with Personal Experience --- p.40 / Chapter 3.2 --- Multiple Identities and Old and New ower Relations --- p.53 / Chapter 3.3 --- Qualitative Analysis and Writing --- p.61 / Chapter Section Two: --- Findings and Analysis / Chapter Chapter Four --- Students´ة Perception of English: An “Inferior´ح and “Feminine´ح Subject --- p.66 / Chapter 4.1 --- The Funny but Boring English Lessons (and the Boring but Interesting Mathematics Lessons) --- p.66 / Chapter 4.2 --- Hierarchy of Academic Subjects --- p.86 / Chapter 4.3 --- "Authority and Masculinity of ""Objective"" Knowledge" --- p.90 / Chapter 4.4 --- The Making (or the Unsuccessful Making) of Objective Academic Subjects --- p.95 / Chapter 4.5 --- Conclusion: The Valuable but Inferior Subject --- p.103 / Chapter Chapter Five --- Learning as Identity Construction: The Case of English --- p.105 / Chapter 5.1 --- "Achiever by Instrumental Rationality: Jackson, the ""Career Plan´ح Boy" --- p.105 / Chapter 5.2 --- "Achiever by Feminine ersona Over-acted: Ricky, the ""Maria"" boy" --- p.109 / Chapter 5.3 --- A Communal Activity: Girls as a Group --- p.117 / Chapter 5.4 --- Conclusion: Interplay between Gender Identity and Learner Identity --- p.119 / Chapter Chapter Six --- Being in a Colonized World: Students´ة Social Struggles over English Learning --- p.121 / Chapter 6.1 --- Middle Class Normative Ideal and Working Class Struggle --- p.121 / Chapter 6.2 --- Anxiety over EMI Identity --- p.126 / Chapter 6.3 --- L2 Learners´ة Sense of Ownership --- p.129 / Chapter 6.4 --- Value of L1 Resource --- p.133 / Chapter 6.5 --- Overpowering Colonialism through the Power of Masculinity --- p.135 / Chapter 6.6 --- Conclusion: Deficiency Model of the Colonized --- p.139 / Chapter Section Three: --- Conclusion / Chapter Chapter Seven --- The Complexity of the ´بLanguage Education,Question in Feminism --- p.141 / Appendix: Interview and Observation Guide --- p.148 / References --- p.150

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_326934
Date January 2009
ContributorsLui, Wai Shan., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Gender Studies.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, vii, 155 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
CoverageChina, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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