English language proficiency assessment for English language teachers in Hong Kong: Development and dilemmas

postprin

Genres of symbolic violence: Beauty contest discourse practices in Hong Kong

postprin

Curriculum: Foreign language learning

This article presents an overview of various issues related to curriculum in foreign language learning, and in particular focuses on learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Foreign language learning is taken to mean the learning of a language other than the learner’s first language (L1), and this language is not ordinarily used in the learner’s everyday life. Thus, foreign language learning contexts are very different from second language learning contexts, for in second language learning contexts, the language being learned is often used in the learner’s larger social context (even though it might not be always used in the learner’s immediate home or community). This distinction should not be seen as categorical, as some contexts lie in between the prototypical foreign language learning contexts and the prototypical second language learning contexts. However, as is discussed in this review, the importance of understanding the sociocultural, sociopolitical, and socioeconomic situatedness of second and foreign language learning in diverse contexts of the world has, until recently, been underrepresented in the literature.postprin

Self-presentation in on-line dating personals: a critical analysis of scam artists’ persuasive discourse

With the rapid spread of the Internet, on-line dating and matching services have become widespread globally. The rise of on-line dating scams has attracted the interest of cultural studies scholars and critical discourse analysts because of their highly sophisticated construction of impostor identities (e.g., a Nigerian male impersonating as an American female dating an on-line partner in the US) through their ‘creative’ use of discursive strategies in on-line email and instant messages to …postprintThe 8th International Conference of the Association for Cultural Studies (Crossroads 2010), Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 17-21 June 2010

Development of Streams Classification System for Nutrient Criteria in Illinois

USEPApublished or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe

Hong Kong children's rights to a culturally compatible English education

In this paper I discuss why the right of access to the socioeconomically dominant symbolic resource, English, is a fundamental language right of Hong Kong children. I also discuss why current English curricular design and practices do not provide such access and how they can be changed in order to provide Hong Kong children with access to an English education that is compatible with their native culture (Jordan, 1985). In a culturally compatible curriculum, emphasis is placed on affirming and capitalizing on what children bring to the classroom: their indigenous linguistic, discourse, and cultural resources. It aims at building on and expanding the child's existing resources to bridge the gap between her/his native resources and the socioeconomically important language of the society. I also propose some directions for future research and curricular development that researchers, teachers, and teacher-educators can take in the context of Hong Kong in order to develop a culturally compatible English curriculum that will deny neither the Cantonese child's rightful linguistic and cultural identities and resources nor her/his right to have access to English.postprin

Englishization with an attitude: Cantonese-English lyrics in Hong Kong

postprin

Critical practice in English language education in Hong Kong: Challenges and possibilities

In this paper the notion of critical practice in English language education (ELE) is explored through examples from the critical work of educators and researchers in Hong Kong. The paper then concludes with a discussion of both the challenges and possibilities of engaging in critical practice in ELE in Hong Kong and possibly in other East Asian contexts, where similar cultures of teaching and learning predominate.postprin

From learning English in a colony to working as a female TESOL professional of color: A personal odyssey

postprin

Explorations of the (non-) self-determining subject in South Korean TV dramas

postprin