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Open AccessTrilingual education in Hong Kong primary schools: an overview
Hong Kong is linguistically complex and diverse with three principal languages: Cantonese, English and Putonghua. A substantial debate on the language policies governing the three principal languages has conti...
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Community of Practice: Building a Mobile Learning Community in a Higher Education Institution to Promote Effective Teaching and Learning
With the fast development of mobile technologies, mobile learning has been adopted by more and more students and staff in higher education institutions. However, most students and staff tend to explore mobile ...
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Introduction
This chapter gives a brief description of the demography of Hong Kong and its linguistic ecology, along with a review of language policies which have been enacted over time. Since the return to Chinese soverei...
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The “Biliterate and Trilingual” Policy in Hong Kong Primary School Education
With the handover in 1997, Hong Kong has adopted the ‘Biliterate and Trilingual’ language policy, which aims at develo** citizens who are biliterate in both written Chinese and English as well as trilingual ...
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Conclusion, Limitations and Implications
This chapter concludes the study by presenting guidelines for the successful implementation of trilingual education in Hong Kong’s primary schools. We list the limitations of the study and conclude it by argui...
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Methodology
This chapter outlines the methodology adopted in this study. It describes the pilot study which was conducted and then goes on to describe the ways in which the schools and key stakeholders of the major part o...
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Survey on Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools
This chapter reports on the findings of the survey on how trilingual education was implemented in Hong Kong primary schools. A total of 155 Hong Kong primary schools participated in a questionnaire survey and ...
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Case Study 2: School B
This chapter provides the description of the second case study school. The chapter describes the school’s demography, the background of its students and an overview of the school’s medium of instruction polici...
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Comparisons Across the Three Case Study Schools Regarding Trilingual Education
This chapter compares the three case study schools and their implementation of trilingual education based on the stakeholders’ views, namely the school principal, the teachers, the students and the parents, fo...
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Literature Review
This chapter contains a literature review of multilingual education and how it is being implemented in a selection of countries. The chapter then narrows the review down to multilingual education in Southeast ...
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Pilot Study in One Hong Kong Primary School
This chapter describes the pilot study, which incorporated a case study in one primary school. The views of various stakeholders (the principal, teachers, parents, and the students themselves) towards how tril...
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Case Study 1: School A
This chapter provides the description of the first case study school. The chapter describes the school’s demongraphy, the background of its students and an overview of the school’s medium of instruction polici...
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Case Study 3: School C
This chapter provides the description of the third case study school. The chapter describes the school’s demography, the background of its students and an overview of the school’s medium of instruction policie...
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Blending a Linguistics Course for Enhanced Student Learning Experiences in a Hong Kong Higher Education Institution
In this chapter, a case study of implementing blended learning in a linguistics course will be reported. Traditionally, this course was taught in the mode of a 1-hour face-to-face plenary lecture plus a 2-hour...
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Learning-by-doing in a professional learning community: technological pedagogical and content knowledge development of Hong Kong university teaching staff
To prepare teachers for blended teaching, this study proposed ongoing teacher professional development activities that utilize the learning-by-doing approach within a professional learning community with the o...
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Student engagement and teaching presence in blended learning and emergency remote teaching
Emergency remote teaching (ERT) and blended learning have emerged in higher education since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there have been few comparisons between them to assess whether blende...