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Development and Validation of a Parent Belief and Attitude Questionnaire on Supporting Young Children's English as a Second/Foreign Language Development
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Xinyi Zhang; Carrie Lau – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The present study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire assessing parents' beliefs about, and attitudes toward, supporting young children's English as a second/foreign language development -- Parent English Language Belief and Attitude Questionnaire (PELBA-Q). The PELBA-Q was piloted with 173 parents of kindergarten-aged children and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
Enlarging English Reading Amount in Hong Kong Primary Schools: Do Social Support and Goal Orientation Matter?
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Jian, Xu; Ya-Ting, Huang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
In this research, the relationships among social support, including parents', teachers', and peers' support, goal orientation, and reading amount in English were examined directly and indirectly in a sample of Hong Kong senior primary school students (N = 570) using a questionnaire survey. It was assumed that parents', teachers', and peers'…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Gender Differences, Structural Equation Models, Foreign Countries
Stakeholders' Perceptions of Language Variation, English Language Teaching and Language Use: The Case of Hong Kong
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Chan, Jim Yee Him – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This study examines Hong Kong major stakeholders' (secondary students, university students, teachers and professionals) perceptions of language variation, English language teaching (ELT) and language use in their everyday communication via a large-scale questionnaire survey (N = 1893). Based on principal components analysis of the questionnaire…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes