This study seeks, through examining authentic spoken discourse in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE), to determine the ways in which these strategies are linguistically realised in real life communication, compared to the intuitions of materials writers that find their way into school ...
The book is the first to apply David Brazil's Discourse Intonation systems (prominence, tone, key and termination) to the study of a corpus of authentic, naturally-occurring spoken discourses. The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (pros... S Calhoun - John Benjamins 被引量: 15发表: 2008...
Checking Understandings: Comparing Textbooks and a Corpus of Spoken English in Hong Kong Two interactional strategies explicitly taught to learners of English in Hong Kong are how to check that the hearer understands what you are saying as you ... W Cheng,M Warren - 《Language Awareness》 被引...
Hong Kong English (HKE) is a contact variety between two languages that have very distinct syllable structure: Cantonese with a simple structure allowing only three segments and English where syllables can be quite large. Unraveling the structure of the HKE syllable is however quite difficult because...
This study investigates consonant clusters and phonotactics in the English spoken by Hong Kong Cantonese speakers. A computer dataset of Hong Kong English speech data amounting to 4,404 syllables was used. Syllables were categorised according to structure, and then compared to 1,847 syllables from...
spoken corporapronunciation teachingteacher educationThis study aimed to develop a corpus-aided pronunciation teacher-training programme and examine the effectiveness of a corpus-aided pronunciation teaching approach in English classrooms in Hong Kong. A workshop was conducted for 86 participants to ...
Drawing on Clyne’s (2003) explanatory framework of facilitation, this study presents evidence of monosyllabic salience in Hong Kong Cantonese. Grounded in the perceptual salience of bilingual speakers of two or more languages (Clyne 1997: 95), facilitat
As a matter of fact, EFL learners in Hong Kong possess a one-of-a-kind attribute of being biliteral and trilingual, implying that they manage to master both written Chinese and English as well as spoken Cantonese, Putonghua, and English. Hardly can such a linguistic repertoire be found ...
Business English Course design Hong Kong Oral presentations Professional communication 1. Introduction 1.1. The importance of presentations in the business world Professionals seeking guidance about the planning and delivery of effective presentations at work have no shortage of sources to consult. A visit...
Hong Kong SAR, China and BRI’s Globalization Jean A. Berlie Jun 30, 2021, PP. 1-12 Full-Text Applying Kolmogorov’s Proofs to the Evaluation of Instruction: Generalized and Particular (PART ONE) John W. Oller Jul 28, 2021, PP. 1-28 Full-Text Analysis on the Development Problems...