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Production of English Connected Speech Processes: An Assessment of Cantonese ESL Learners' Difficulties Obtaining Native-Like Speech
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Wong, Simpson W. L.; Dealey, Jessica; Leung, Vina W. H.; Mok, Peggy P. K. – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Despite English being a core and compulsory part of the curriculum for Chinese English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners, it is nevertheless often highly challenging for them. This is partly due to the discrepancies between English's citation and spoken form and the lack of recognition this pronunciation receives within ESL classrooms. With this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Phonemes
Assessing Learning Control of English Hedges among Tertiary Cantonese-Speaking EFL Students
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Siu, Fiona Kwai-peng – Online Submission, 2014
This project was designed to try to investigate the difficulties EFL learners would have in learning to use hedging as a rhetorical device in academic writing. The participants were 136 native Cantonese-speaking EFL students who enrolled in the one-year course "English for Academic Purposes" offered by a language centre at a university…
Descriptors: College Students, Sino Tibetan Languages, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Rethinking Peer Feedback on Written Assignments: Perspectives from Teachers and Students
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Siu, Fiona Kwai Peng – Online Submission, 2012
This study surveys the opinions of both teachers and students involved in the Year 1 course "University English" in the Language Centre at City University of Hong Kong. The survey involved 265 students and 37 teachers. The issues studied were: 1) how useful is peer and teacher feedback? And 2) how effective are direct vs indirect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Toward a Taxonomy of Written Errors: Investigation into the Written Errors of Hong Kong Cantonese ESL Learners
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Chan, Alice Y. W. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2010
This article examines common lexicogrammatical problems found in Cantonese English as a second language (ESL) learners' written English output. A study was conducted with 387 student participants, who were asked to do two untutored and unaided free-writing tasks of about 200-300 words each. A range of lexicogrammatical error types commonly found…
Descriptors: Incidence, Instructional Materials, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Voice Recognition Software Accuracy with Second Language Speakers of English.
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Coniam, D. – System, 1999
Explores the potential of the use of voice-recognition technology with second-language speakers of English. Involves the analysis of the output produced by a small group of very competent second-language subjects reading a text into the voice recognition software Dragon Systems "Dragon NaturallySpeaking." (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computer Software, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Methods
Teachers' Grammar on the Electronic Highway: Design Criteria for "Telegram."
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Wu, Kamyin; Tsui, Amy B. M. – System, 1997
Discusses the rationale and criteria for developing "Telegram," an electronic grammar database for English-as-a- Second-Language teachers in Hong Kong. Describes the importance of explicit grammatical knowledge in effective language teaching, and describes the design criteria for "Telegram," which aims to provide a body of…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Databases, Educational Technology, Electronic Classrooms
A Computerised English Language Proofing Cloze Program.
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Coniam, David – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1997
Describes a computer program that takes multiple-choice cloze passages and compiles them into proofreading exercises. Results reveal that such a computerized test type can be used to accurately measure the proficiency of students of English as a Second Language in Hong Kong. (14 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing