Hong Kong students＇ approaches to learning： Cross-cultural comparisons

Anecdotal evidence abounds in Hong Kong to the effect that students entering tertiary education are predisposed to a ＂rote＂ learning approach. With the internalisation of higher education in many countries, there is still insufficient understanding of how Chinese students approach their learning. Except few studies were conducted locally, there have been no systematic studies undertaken and there is a tendency to rely on anecdotal statements about Hong Kong students＇ approaches to learning. This study was designed to see if Hong Kong Chinese students who enrolled into a 3-year undergraduate programme in occupational therapy predisposed to a surface or deep approach to learning react differently when moving progressively from one stage to the next stage in their curriculum. The study adopted a longitudinal design method and measured students＇ changes in their approaches to learning using the Biggs＇ Study Process Questionnaire （SPQ）. The internal consistency reliability estimates for SPQ scales for samples of Hong Kong, Australia and UK were compared. The results of this study indicated that Hong Kong Chinese students demonstrated a higher mean for the deep approach learning and a lower mean for the surface approach, similar to other Hong Kong studies conducted in other tertiary institutions in Hong Kong and Australia.     

香港(一)(英文)

From skyscrapers to quaint (奇异的)villages, sightseeing in Hong Kong is amazingly diverse for an area which is just 1091 square kilometres. If you spent one day travelling from bustling Hong Kong Island to the rural New Territories, you would see many different facets of life:executives heading for high-tech offices, vendors selling traditional wares in bustling (熙熙攘攘的)markets, worshippers (礼佛者) praying in incense-scented (香烟缭绕的) temples and farmers bentlow planting vegetables.     

刘德华:“我已经过时了”

Andy Lau is a popular actor and singer in Hong Kong and around Asia.He started his acting career in 1980 with the TVB when he was about 18 years old.He began his singing career in 1985.Having been in showbiz for 20years,Andy has been through everything.He knows how to handle small setbacks.He often says, "What is this?It's just an     

Management Strategies for Promoting Teacher Collective Learning

This paper aims to validate a theoretical model for developing teacher collective learning by using a quasi-experimental design, and explores the management strategies that would provide a school administrator practical steps to effectively promote collective learning in the school organization. Twenty aided secondary schools in Hong Kong were selected by cluster sampling, and 777 teachers took part in the questionnaire survey. A structural equation model was applied to identify the interrelationship of the 5 disciplines of Senge＇s （1990） learning organization model. Results showed that personal mastery and systems thinking are individual and collective level predictors respectively for teacher collective learning. Building a mental model and shared vision in a sequential order predict systems thinking. Management strategies in cultural, policy and leadership domains are recommended to school administrators who wish to promote teacher collective learning as a means of coping with the changes generated by the curriculum reform in Hong Kong.     

Leonardo Advocates Environmental Protection

At the invitation of HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor- poration汇丰银行),the international superstar Leonardo DiCaprio (莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥) went to Hong Kong to promote public environmental awareness.He appeared in the first release (首演) of The 11th Hour     

CEPA and interrelationship between Chinese yuan and Hong Kong dollar

In order to explore the interrelated impacts of the economical communications between China and Hong Kong SAR, especially after the closer economic partnership arrangement (CEPA) and the Chinese yuan offshore financial business in Hong Kong banks in 2004, the exchange rates of the Chinese yuan and the Hong Kong dollar are investigated as well-performing market signals that should reflect this historical transformation. With vector autoregressive models (VAR), the Johansen cointegration test and the Granger causality test on the exchange rates of the Chinese yuan and the Hong Kong dollar adjusted by the consumer price index and inter-bank interest rates are examined. It is found that the exchange rates of the Chinese yuan and the Hong Kong dollar after CEPA are in long-term equilibrium and Granger causality with each other, which means that the interrelationship of the Chinese yuan and the Hong Kong dollar is more closely integrated after the implementation of the CEPA. In conclusion, the cooperation regarding bilateral trade and financial markets between China and Hong Kong SAR has been enhanced after 1997; furthermore, after the implementation of CEPA the interrelationship of the economies between China and Hong Kong SAR is significantly reinforced.     

An Overview of Bilingual Education in Hong Kong

English is more widely used in Hong Kong than mainland China. The introduction, escalation and declination of English in Hong Kong are examined. Relevant reasons are explored to account for the gradual change of language use. Afterwards, appropriate recom mendations are provided to elevate the status of English as globalization requires communication barriers across diverse cultures to be lifted.     

Current Trends and Development of English Education in Hong Kong

This paper seeks to answer the research question of what English Education in Hong Kong has experienced in recent decades. It explores English education in Hong Kong in terms of current trends, curricular changes, and the influence of socio-cultural factors. The available resources suggest that school curricula should place higher requirements on students’proficiency in English.     

"花样女子"张曼玉

Biography: Maggie was born in Hong Kong and emigrated(移民)with her family to England at the age of eight. She once worked as a cashier(出纳员)in a London bookstore. Upon completing her secondary school education,she returned to Hong Kong and first     

PM10 and CO Exposure of Hong Kong Population in Public Transit Facilities

Taking public transit facilities (PTFs) is the major transport style in Hang Kong. Human exposure to indoor air pollutants may cause adverse health effects to the passengers. Exposure assessment on air pollutants is important for the control of human diseases caused by indoor air pollution. In this paper, the indoor PM10,CO and C02 levels in various PTFs, such as public bus, subway, railway and ferry in Hong Kong, were measured. Combining with the time budget survey of Hong Kong population, the human exposures were calculated through Monte-Carlo simulation.     

Tao Zhe expressed thanks to his fans

Tao Zhe (陶喆), who had just held a concert at the football playground of Hong Kou of Shanghai, expressed to the press that he was very grateful to his fans and that he would never forget the concert in the rain. Tao Zhe said, "When I was singing 'Love is Simple', I was deeply moved to see rain and smile on your face, and I suddenly realized that you are more than listeners, you are my good friends, good brothers, good sisters, and my family!"     

香港回归十周年(英文)

"Hong Kong has remained as before a magnet since it returned to China 10 years ago,and it will surely witness a‘more splendid’future in the embrace of the motherland,"——President Hu made the remarks when visiting an exhibition in Beijing on Hong Kong's achievements in the decade since its return.     

A Corpus-Based Study of the Use of Verb DO in L2 Hong Kong University Students Writing

It is found in the study that there is a big difference concerning the overall frequency of Do with Hong Kong students using much more DO in their writings than native speakers.Besides,Hong Kong university students tend to overuse the verbal operator DO,which is contrary to Qi Yan’s study(2006).At the same time,they also misuse Do;When Do is used as de-lexical verb,Hong Kong students share the same characteristics with the study of Fu zhuqin(2006),that is,they allow more freedom to collocate with more Nouns,some of which are inappropriate collocates in native English.The potential reasons for these problems might be illustrated as overgeneralization,mother-tongue interference,and lack of vocabulary etc.Based on the findings,the paper presents two pedagogical implications about vocabulary teaching and learning:the content of vocabulary teaching should be extended and enriched,and the corpus-based vocabulary teaching methodology should be integrated into class practices.     

Four Strange Great Singers

It is said in an article that the four strange great singers in the world should be Luciano Pavarotti(帕瓦罗蒂) from Italy,Michael Jackson(迈克尔·杰克逊) from USA,Vitas from Russia and Kong Tai(孔太) from China.It is well-known that Pavarotti died not long ago.And Jackson is on the decline.So,now the focus of attention is on Vitas and Kong Tai.The former is a rising star and the latter has retired from the singing circle to travel around the world.This shift of focus is mainly due to the fact that,when Vitas made a performing tour in China,some fans made a comparison between him and Kong Tai in terms of voice quality.     

Disney Park

In 1955, Walt Disney(迪斯尼)himsellopened the first Disney Park in Los Angeles,the USA.Later Disney world wasopened in Florida in 1971. It cost betweens$ 500 and $600 million. TokyoDisney Park opened in Japan in 1983,and Europe (欧洲)Disney opened inFrance in 1992. Now Hong Kong is going to build a DisneyPark and it will be open in 2005. More than 80% of Hong Kong's populationwould like to visit the Disney Park when     

A Case Study of Language Policies in Hong Kong

Hong Kong belongs to China. However, Hong Kong has been a colony of the British Empire for 154 years and 11 months and it has been under Japan rule for three years and eight years. Hong Kong returned t...     

How many Chinese journals are included in the newly indexed 700 regional journals on Web of Science？

Based on the current news via Thomson Reuters ＂700 new regional journals in the world have been added to Web of Science since 2007＂, we conducted an investigation to find out that 43 （6.1%） Chinese journals （including 6 journals from Hong Kong region） are included. The results also show that up to now a total of about 153 Chinese journals （114 from China Mainland, 11 from Hong Kong and 28 from Taiwan） have been included by SCI and SSCI ＆ AHCI.     

Preserving the literary past, looking to the future： the first Hong Kong Literature Database

INTRODUCTION In the last two decades of the 20th century, there was an emerging interest in and emphasis on the study of Hong Kong literature among academic scholars. Since the first biennial conference “Conference on Taiwan and Hong Kong Literature (Tai Gang Wen Xue Xue Shu Tao Lun Hui)” held in 1982 in Mainland China, various conferences with diverse themes on Hong Kong literature have been held both locally and overseas in these twenty some years (Huang, 1988; Liu, 1997). The…     

沃尔玛与香港利丰成立合资采购公司(英文)

Walmart,the world's largest retailer, has made the first step in its drive to take direct control of its annual purchasing of $ 100bn in private-label goods by announcing a strategic partnership with Li&Fung,a Hong Kong sourcing company.