Becoming Hong Kong-Like: The Role of Hong Kong English in the Acquisition of English Phonology by Hong Kong Students

2018 ◽  
pp. 257-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuan Qin
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Hong Kong Students ◽  
Hong Kong English

Teaching journalism in a second language

English Today ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-9
Author(s):  
Barry Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
International Business ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Hong Kong Students ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Colonial Government

JOURNALISM is a craft that uses language as its tools. It involves a close embrace with the linguistic medium of its transactions. Hong Kong students studying journalism in English are doubly disadvantaged by their lack of familiarity with English and by the role of English as a prestige language in a society that mostly speaks another tongue. English is used in a narrow range of contexts in Hong Kong: in elite domains of international business; as the language of colonial government; among the expatriates who play key roles in the political, economic and cultural life of the territory; and in the classroom where hundreds of thousands of primary to tertiary students labour under archaic methods of teaching that emphasise grammatical rules and rote learning of set texts. English is not used in the street, in the media or in the home of the average Hong Konger. It is a foreign language.

scholarly journals Teachers’ Feedback on a New Variety of English: The Case of Hong Kong English

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. p36
Author(s):  
Ka Long Roy Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Native English Speakers ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Short Report ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
New Variety ◽  
Hong Kong Students ◽  
New Varieties ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Hong Kong English

The present short report reveals how teachers of English in Hong Kong (HKTEs) react to Hong Kong English (HKE). By employing a mixed method approach consisting of 100 survey responses and 28 interviews, types of feedback and activities teachers use when they encounter HKE in classroom were recorded and reported. The results showed that the two types of teachers of English – Native and Non-native English speakers – provided different kinds of responses because of the differences in attitude they held toward new varieties of English. The current study potentially sheds light on how different varieties of English could fit in traditional ESL curricula. Further research is warranted on how the feedback may affect English acquisition among Hong Kong students and whether the feedback brings positive or negative effects to the students.

The attitudes of Hong Kong students towards Hong Kong English and Mandarin-accented English

English Today ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Language Variation ◽  
Hong Kong Students ◽  
Accented English ◽  
Hong Kong English

The development of Hong Kong English (henceforth HKE) has triggered a number of concerns amongst the local population with respect to its status (Joseph, 1996; Luk, 1998; Bolton & Lim, 2000; Pang, 2003; Stibbard, 2004). However, despite the prominence of research into attitudes towards language variation within sociolinguistics, very few studies focus on Hong Kong English (Bolton & Kwok, 1990; Candler, 2001; S. Poon, 2007) or Mandarin-accented English (He & Li, 2009; Hu, 2004; F. Poon, 2006). The aim of this study is to uncover language attitudes towards HKE and Mandarin-accented English (henceforth ME) in the Hong Kong region through the application of the verbal-guise technique.

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