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Foung, Dennis; Chen, Julia; Cheung, Kin – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2023
College transfer students are those who follow a different trajectory in their higher education journeys than traditional students, completing a sub-degree before pursuing a bachelor's degree at a university. While the possibility of transferring makes higher education accessible to these students, previous studies have found that they face…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Student Needs, Barriers, Academic Achievement
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Bai, Barry; Wang, Jing – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This study examined the role of growth mindset, self-efficacy, and intrinsic value in self-regulated learning (SRL) and English language learning achievements in Hong Kong primary school students. A sample of 690 4th graders participated in the study. The findings suggest that the level of SRL strategy use (i.e. monitoring, effort regulation, and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chiang, Kwun Man; Chang, Chih-Hao; Lee, Icy – Language Awareness, 2023
This study investigated instruction in vocabulary consolidation strategies over eight months and vocabulary learning among a group of secondary students in Hong Kong. Two vocabulary tests and one vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) questionnaire survey were administered near the end of the school year. The data were analysed using t-tests and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Bai, Barry; Wang, Jing; Nie, Youyan – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
This study aimed to examine the relationships between motivational variables, self-regulated writing strategy use and writing competence with 511 fourth graders in Hong Kong. The high writing achievers reported a higher level of motivation, i.e. self-efficacy, task values (i.e. interest and utility) and growth mindset in English writing than the…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Cultural Context, Learning Strategies, Elementary School Students
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Inoue, Tomohiro; Zheng, Mo; Ho, Connie Suk-Han; McBride, Catherine – Developmental Psychology, 2023
We examined the developmental trajectories and cognitive predictors of first language Chinese reading, second language English reading, and mathematics skills in Hong Kong children in Grades 1-5. We used longitudinal data of 1,000 children (M[subscript age] = 7.59 years) assessed on phonological awareness, rapid naming, and morphological awareness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Chinese, Reading
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Foung, Dennis; Chen, Julia – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2019
In recent years, research using learning analytics to predict learning outcomes has begun to increase. This emerging field of research advocates the use of readily-available data to inform teaching and learning. The current case study adopts a learning analytics approach to evaluate the online learning package of an academic English course in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Electronic Learning, English for Academic Purposes
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Jana Chi-San Ho; Catherine McBride; Kelvin Fai Hong Lui – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Word reading fluency is crucial for early L2 development. Moreover, the practice of digital reading has become increasingly common for both children and adults. Therefore, the current study investigated factors that explain digital word reading fluency in English (L2) among Chinese children from Hong Kong. Eighty-six children (age: M = 9.78, SD =…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Skills
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Hu, Xiao; Ng, Jeremy; Tsang, Kitty K. Y.; Chu, Samuel K. W. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
This article reports findings from a study that aims to understand how to integrate mobile-learning into Learning Management System (LMS) in a community college in Hong Kong. In this study, a mobile-enabled LMS named SOUL was adopted to improve students' learning engagement and academic performance. Participating students were segregated into two…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Electronic Learning, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Jia-Qi Xu; Kean Poon; Mimi S. H. Ho – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
The pandemic induced a radical shift to online learning with increased parental involvement. This study investigates the challenges that students with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) encountered during the pandemic and the mediating role of parental stress. A total of 294 parents of children with SpLD (mean age = 10.6; SD = 1.5) were…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses, Barriers
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Yu, Baohua – Educational Studies, 2019
This study examined (1) differences in background, integrative/instrumental motivation, learning approach, leaning strategy and proficiency in second language (L2) and (2) the determinants of learning outcomes between Hong Kong and Mainland (Chinese) students. To achieve this, a questionnaire survey was distributed to 773 s language learners…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Learning Strategies, Curriculum Design, Language Proficiency
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Ng, Clarence – Distance Education, 2017
Can mastery and performance-approach goals predict distance learners' learning and achievement in different learning situations over an academic year? Using a prospective longitudinal design, the current study examined this research question using a cohort of distance learners in Hong Kong. Two hundred and seventy-two distance learners completed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Adult Learning, Mastery Learning
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Zhu, Jinxin; Mok, Magdalena Mo Ching – Educational Psychology, 2018
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is of great importance to academic achievement and life-long learning. This study aimed to examine the prediction of three processes of primary students' SRL using students' prior achievement, interest in mathematics, personal best goal orientation, and their perceptions of teachers' feedback one academic year…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Independent Study, Prior Learning, Student Interests
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Barry Bai; Jiatong Zhang; Jing Wang – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
This study explored the predictive roles of social expectations (i.e., community influence and social values) and perceived adults' growth mindsets (i.e., teachers' growth mindset and parents' growth mindset) on self-regulated learning (SRL) strategy use and English learning achievement with 685 fourth to fifth graders in Hong Kong. Structural…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Social Influences, Social Values, Expectation
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Zhu, Xinhua; Chan, Shui Duen; Yao, Yuan – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: With a sample of 390 non-Chinese speaking first-grade primary school students and their parents in Hong Kong, this study examines associations between parental support and students' ideal selves, motivation, engagement, and Chinese reading test performance. Latent profile analysis (LPA) identified four groups of students (low-,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning, Chinese
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Art Tsang; Susanna Siu-sze Yeung – SAGE Open, 2024
Despite much attention having been paid to foreign language (FL) reading and related variables such as self-efficacy, relatively few studies have focused on young learners, and even fewer on storybooks, arguably the commonest genre read by children worldwide for language learning. As FL learning commences at a young age in many contexts globally,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Language Proficiency, Correlation, English (Second Language)
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