Hong Kong Primary Four pupils take third spot in reading survey of 57
Hong Kong students achieve remarkable results in International Reading
(PDF) A Study of an Online Community for Promoting Chinese Reading
Hong Kong students rank 2nd in global reading literacy study, but
Hong Kong Primary Four pupils take third spot in reading survey of 57
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Reading Motivation and Strategy Use of Hong Kong Students ...
In recent SRL and reading research, ... Reading strategy use and motivation among Chinese good readers and poor readers in Hong Kong. Journal of Research in Reading, 26, 177-190. Article Google Scholar Lau, K. L., & Chan, D. W. (2003b). Evaluating the implementation of a Chinese reading strategy instruction program in Hong Kong secondary ...
International study shows reading literacy of Hong Kong students at
The Education Bureau (EDB) today (May 17) said it was pleased to learn that Hong Kong students had performed remarkably well in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2021, ranking second among 43 countries or regions, reaching the best tier internationally and staying in the global top three for a fourth straight cycle since PIRLS 2006.
Self-Regulated learning strategies and reading comprehension among
Rex Hung Wai Ng is the project manager of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2021 Hong Kong component. He is also a lecturer of the Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research of the University of Hong Kong. His research interests are the development of reading, reading instruction, language assessment and evaluation, using ICT in supporting ...
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study
It also enables educationists, schools and the general public to monitor the reading ability of Hong Kong primary school students over the years and to evaluate the impact of factors that have influenced performance. PIRLS 2021 project reference no.: EDB(RTD)1/280/1410/17 PIRLS 2016 project reference no.: EDB(RTD)1/280/1410/12
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2021 in Hong Kong
The PIRLS 2021 survey presents objective evidence of Hong Kong primary school students' reading ability and how this compares against that of students of the same age around the world. It also enables educationists, schools and the general public to monitor the reading ability of Hong Kong primary school students over the years and to ...
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There has, however, been some recent research within the context of Hong Kong as to the relationships between teaching English literature and acquiring English as a second language. One study, for example, examined ESL teachers' beliefs and practices of teaching literary texts (Cheung and Hennebry-Leung, 2020). Using lesson observations and ...
PIRLS
The PIRLS 2021 survey presents objective evidence of Hong Kong primary school students' reading ability and how this compares against that of students of the same age around the world. It also enables educationists, schools and the general public to monitor the reading ability of Hong Kong primary school students over the years and to ...
PDF Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2021 Brief Summary
3. Our research team of the Centre for The Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research of the University of Hong Kong (CACLER, HKU) was funded by the Quality Education Fund to participate the PIRLS 2001 study in 1999. Since then, the research team has continued to be commissioned by the Education Bureau of the Government of Hong Kong
(PDF) "The Basis of their Reading Experience": Progress on Reading to
A key government education policy in Hong Kong is Reading to Learn, introduced in 2000. Cultivating an independent reading habit is identified as one of the "Seven Learning Goals" to be ...
Hong Kong senior secondary students' reading motivation ...
This study investigated Hong Kong secondary students' Classical Chinese (CC) reading comprehension, reading motivation, and the effects of different types of motivation on CC reading. Four hundred forty-eight seniors from four secondary schools in Hong Kong voluntarily completed a CC reading comprehension test and a reading motivation questionnaire. Findings indicated that students' CC ...
Reading strategy use and motivation among Chinese good and poor readers
Eighty-three good readers and 76 poor readers were compared on their ability to use reading strategies in Chinese reading comprehension and on various reading motivation variables. Poor readers scored lower than good readers in using all reading strategies, and especially in using sophisticated cognitive and metacognitive strategies.
Increasing Reading Motivation and Vocabulary of South Asian Children in
ABSTRACT. Research Findings: This study investigated the effectiveness of a home-based intervention in increasing the intrinsic reading motivation and Chinese oral vocabulary of minority South Asian children in Hong Kong. A quasi-experiment was conducted with 78 children (M age = 51.54 months; control: 37 children, intervention: 41 children) and their parents.
Assessing the range of cognitive processes in the Hong Kong Diploma of
This study examines the range of cognitive processes assessed in the English language reading literacy test as part of the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE), the secondary school exit test in Hong Kong. Prior studies have suggested that higher order cognitive processes are often undermined in high-stakes tests and classrooms, due to what is called the "washback ...
Word reading experience enhances fundamental language skill ...
The current study of Hong Kong and Beijing children. ... version of the phonological awareness tasks for both sites and the word reading task developed specifically by the research team for use in Hong Kong. Due to copyright issues, we cannot provide the full item list used for the Chinese word-reading task in Beijing or the morphological ...
Visual-spatial Attention and Reading Achievement in Hong Kong Chinese
A total of 257 second- and third-grade Hong Kong Chinese-speaking children participated in the study. Visual-spatial attention was measured by visual search tasks, which assessed the skills in highly inefficient and efficient searches. Chinese character reading, word reading fluency and reading comprehension skills were measured 1 year later.
Reading motivation, perceptions of reading instruction and reading
This study examined the relations between students' reading motivation, perceptions of reading instruction and reading amount, together with grade differences, in a Chinese educational context. A total of 1,146 students from 19 secondary schools in Hong Kong voluntarily responded to a questionnaire that measured these three sets of variables.
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Inaugural HK reading week begins. April 20, 2024. An opening ceremony raised the curtain on an array of reading promotion activities as Hong Kong Reading Week and 2024 Hong Kong Reading+ got underway today. Addressing the ceremony in a video message, Chief Secretary Chan Kwok-ki said that starting from this year April 23 has been designated ...
Transfer? Reading, writing, and parental factors in Hong Kong Chinese
The role of parental literacy skills in cross-linguistic transfer, the phenomenon of the sharing of skills and competence from one language to another, is under-researched. The present study tested 147 Hong Kong Chinese children and their parents (76 boys; mean age = 7.16). Parental literacy skills significantly explained children's reading and spelling in English after controlling for ...
(PDF) News reading habits of young university students in Hong Kong in
Chapter 8 News Reading Habits of Young University Students in Hong Kong in the Age of New Media Alvin C.M. Kwan, Ivy C.T. Cheng, and Joie H.Y. Wong Abstract A number of recent studies indicated a rapid increase in the use of mobile devices and apps worldwide. ... About 80 % of the respondents read news at least one hour daily. Research on news ...
Enlarging English reading amount in Hong Kong primary schools: do
ABSTRACT. In this research, the relationships among social support, including parents', teachers', and peers' support, goal orientation, and reading amount in English were examined directly and indirectly in a sample of Hong Kong senior primary school students (N = 570) using a questionnaire survey.It was assumed that parents', teachers', and peers' support influenced the reading ...
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News Reading Habits of Young University Students in Hong Kong in the
About 80 % of the respondents read news at least one hour daily. Research on news reading habits of university students in Hong Kong is scarce. Lingnan University ( 2006) reported that in a survey involving its 556 students, the respondents generally preferred reading news of entertainment and leisure.
Home Literacy and Chinese Reading in Hong Kong Children
In a hierarchical regression equation, maternal education, children's age and vocabulary skill predicted 18% of the variance in reading, while home literacy practices and children's literacy self-efficacy predicted an additional unique 19% of the variance in Chinese reading skill.
Hong Kong Airlines brings China services back to Gold Coast
Hong Kong Airlines will fly four times per week between the Gold Coast and Hong Kong from 17 January to 15 February 2025, and is expected to deliver around 6,000 inbound seats to the Gold Coast ...
Examining multiple readings of popular culture by ESL students in Hong Kong
The integration of popular culture into English language learning has recently been formalised in the Hong Kong New Senior Secondary curriculum, with the development of critical reading indicated as one of the key objectives. Whether and how students respond to popular culture texts is, however, under-researched.
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In recent SRL and reading research, ... Reading strategy use and motivation among Chinese good readers and poor readers in Hong Kong. Journal of Research in Reading, 26, 177-190. Article Google Scholar Lau, K. L., & Chan, D. W. (2003b). Evaluating the implementation of a Chinese reading strategy instruction program in Hong Kong secondary ...
The Education Bureau (EDB) today (May 17) said it was pleased to learn that Hong Kong students had performed remarkably well in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2021, ranking second among 43 countries or regions, reaching the best tier internationally and staying in the global top three for a fourth straight cycle since PIRLS 2006.
Rex Hung Wai Ng is the project manager of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2021 Hong Kong component. He is also a lecturer of the Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research of the University of Hong Kong. His research interests are the development of reading, reading instruction, language assessment and evaluation, using ICT in supporting ...
It also enables educationists, schools and the general public to monitor the reading ability of Hong Kong primary school students over the years and to evaluate the impact of factors that have influenced performance. PIRLS 2021 project reference no.: EDB(RTD)1/280/1410/17 PIRLS 2016 project reference no.: EDB(RTD)1/280/1410/12
The PIRLS 2021 survey presents objective evidence of Hong Kong primary school students' reading ability and how this compares against that of students of the same age around the world. It also enables educationists, schools and the general public to monitor the reading ability of Hong Kong primary school students over the years and to ...
There has, however, been some recent research within the context of Hong Kong as to the relationships between teaching English literature and acquiring English as a second language. One study, for example, examined ESL teachers' beliefs and practices of teaching literary texts (Cheung and Hennebry-Leung, 2020). Using lesson observations and ...
The PIRLS 2021 survey presents objective evidence of Hong Kong primary school students' reading ability and how this compares against that of students of the same age around the world. It also enables educationists, schools and the general public to monitor the reading ability of Hong Kong primary school students over the years and to ...
3. Our research team of the Centre for The Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research of the University of Hong Kong (CACLER, HKU) was funded by the Quality Education Fund to participate the PIRLS 2001 study in 1999. Since then, the research team has continued to be commissioned by the Education Bureau of the Government of Hong Kong
A key government education policy in Hong Kong is Reading to Learn, introduced in 2000. Cultivating an independent reading habit is identified as one of the "Seven Learning Goals" to be ...
This study investigated Hong Kong secondary students' Classical Chinese (CC) reading comprehension, reading motivation, and the effects of different types of motivation on CC reading. Four hundred forty-eight seniors from four secondary schools in Hong Kong voluntarily completed a CC reading comprehension test and a reading motivation questionnaire. Findings indicated that students' CC ...
Eighty-three good readers and 76 poor readers were compared on their ability to use reading strategies in Chinese reading comprehension and on various reading motivation variables. Poor readers scored lower than good readers in using all reading strategies, and especially in using sophisticated cognitive and metacognitive strategies.
ABSTRACT. Research Findings: This study investigated the effectiveness of a home-based intervention in increasing the intrinsic reading motivation and Chinese oral vocabulary of minority South Asian children in Hong Kong. A quasi-experiment was conducted with 78 children (M age = 51.54 months; control: 37 children, intervention: 41 children) and their parents.
This study examines the range of cognitive processes assessed in the English language reading literacy test as part of the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE), the secondary school exit test in Hong Kong. Prior studies have suggested that higher order cognitive processes are often undermined in high-stakes tests and classrooms, due to what is called the "washback ...
The current study of Hong Kong and Beijing children. ... version of the phonological awareness tasks for both sites and the word reading task developed specifically by the research team for use in Hong Kong. Due to copyright issues, we cannot provide the full item list used for the Chinese word-reading task in Beijing or the morphological ...
A total of 257 second- and third-grade Hong Kong Chinese-speaking children participated in the study. Visual-spatial attention was measured by visual search tasks, which assessed the skills in highly inefficient and efficient searches. Chinese character reading, word reading fluency and reading comprehension skills were measured 1 year later.
This study examined the relations between students' reading motivation, perceptions of reading instruction and reading amount, together with grade differences, in a Chinese educational context. A total of 1,146 students from 19 secondary schools in Hong Kong voluntarily responded to a questionnaire that measured these three sets of variables.
Inaugural HK reading week begins. April 20, 2024. An opening ceremony raised the curtain on an array of reading promotion activities as Hong Kong Reading Week and 2024 Hong Kong Reading+ got underway today. Addressing the ceremony in a video message, Chief Secretary Chan Kwok-ki said that starting from this year April 23 has been designated ...
The role of parental literacy skills in cross-linguistic transfer, the phenomenon of the sharing of skills and competence from one language to another, is under-researched. The present study tested 147 Hong Kong Chinese children and their parents (76 boys; mean age = 7.16). Parental literacy skills significantly explained children's reading and spelling in English after controlling for ...
Chapter 8 News Reading Habits of Young University Students in Hong Kong in the Age of New Media Alvin C.M. Kwan, Ivy C.T. Cheng, and Joie H.Y. Wong Abstract A number of recent studies indicated a rapid increase in the use of mobile devices and apps worldwide. ... About 80 % of the respondents read news at least one hour daily. Research on news ...
ABSTRACT. In this research, the relationships among social support, including parents', teachers', and peers' support, goal orientation, and reading amount in English were examined directly and indirectly in a sample of Hong Kong senior primary school students (N = 570) using a questionnaire survey.It was assumed that parents', teachers', and peers' support influenced the reading ...
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About 80 % of the respondents read news at least one hour daily. Research on news reading habits of university students in Hong Kong is scarce. Lingnan University ( 2006) reported that in a survey involving its 556 students, the respondents generally preferred reading news of entertainment and leisure.
In a hierarchical regression equation, maternal education, children's age and vocabulary skill predicted 18% of the variance in reading, while home literacy practices and children's literacy self-efficacy predicted an additional unique 19% of the variance in Chinese reading skill.
Hong Kong Airlines will fly four times per week between the Gold Coast and Hong Kong from 17 January to 15 February 2025, and is expected to deliver around 6,000 inbound seats to the Gold Coast ...
The integration of popular culture into English language learning has recently been formalised in the Hong Kong New Senior Secondary curriculum, with the development of critical reading indicated as one of the key objectives. Whether and how students respond to popular culture texts is, however, under-researched.