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Li, Yongyan; Hu, Guangwei – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
Teachers' instructional practices surrounding written assignments have been little researched, despite writing remaining the primary means of assessment in higher education, including postgraduate professional development programmes. In this paper, we report a study that explored what a sample of lecturers in a Master of Education programme at an…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
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Cheng, Shuk Ling – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
This paper examines the English grammatical errors and their patterns in the written assignments of a General Education course at City University of Hong Kong. Subjects are 60 local and non-local (exchange) undergraduate students who are all L2 learners with diversified education and disciplinary background (i. e. their major of study) which are…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar
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Mok, Wilson Shun; Chan, Winnie Wai – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2016
Testing has been found to facilitate students' long-term retention of information. However, the learning performance of highly test-anxious students can be impaired by tests. Thus, these students may learn ineffectively in a testing context. By contrast, summary writing may not trigger test anxiety and is therefore another learning strategy to…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Early Adolescents, Anxiety, Likert Scales
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Pun, Jack K. H., Ed.; Curle, Samantha, Ed.; Yuksel, Dogan, Ed. – English Language Education, 2022
This volume discusses how the use of technology creates opportunities for effective teaching practice and illustrates ways to apply innovative and stimulating ways to engage and interact with students on-line. This research-led book brings together teaching practice and case studies and provides a comprehensive understanding of how technology can…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Language of Instruction
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Ha, Yuen Lai – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2010
This article describes the Dim Sum and Chinese Restaurant Project undertaken by 6-year-old kindergarten children in Hong Kong. The article discusses the importance of listening, observing, and documenting children's actions to meet their needs and interests. The kindergarten program that participated in this project is a nonprofit kindergarten…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
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Hafner, Christoph A.; Candlin, Christopher N. – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2007
Considerable research has now been undertaken into the development of different approaches to exploiting language corpora for pedagogic purposes in the context of ESP. The question of how language corpora might be utilized by students beyond the immediate language-teaching context is, however, one as yet seldom addressed in the literature. This…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Writing Assignments, Foreign Countries, Student Experience