Strategy use,listening problems,and motivation of high- and low-proficiency Chinese listeners     

Kit-Ling Lau 《The Journal of educational research》2017,110(5):503-514

Building on previous listening strategy research, the author aimed to explore the differences between Chinese high-proficiency listeners (HLs) and low-proficiency listeners (LLs) on their strategy use, problems, and motivation in native language (L1) listening. It involved 1,290 Grade 7 and 1,515 Grade 9 students. Both quantitative and qualitative methods, including a listening comprehension test, questionnaires, and interviews, were adopted. The findings indicated that HLs possessed more types of strategies and used strategies more frequently and effectively than LLs. HLs not only reported fewer listening problems but also had a better awareness of listening problems and use of problem-solving strategies than LLs. Both HLs and LLs agreed with the importance of listening but showed little interest in doing listening tasks. The similarities and differences between the findings of this study and those of second-language listening research and implications for planning effective instruction to enhance native language listening proficiency are discussed.  相似文献   

Hong Kong senior secondary students’ reading motivation and classical Chinese reading comprehension     

Lau  Kit-Ling 《Reading and writing》2019,32(4):963-982

Reading and Writing - This study investigated Hong Kong secondary students’ Classical Chinese (CC) reading comprehension, reading motivation, and the effects of different types of motivation...  相似文献   

Relationships between writing motives,writing self-efficacy and time on writing among Chinese students: path models and cluster analyses     

Ng  Clarence  Graham  Steve  Liu  Xinghua  Lau  Kit-Ling  Tang  Kit-Yi 《Reading and writing》2022,35(2):427-455

Reading and Writing - Motives for writing is a new research area in the field of writing motivation. Recent studies have identified important motives for students’ writing. Adding to this...  相似文献   

Identification of Underachievers in Hong Kong: Do different methods select different underachievers?     

Kit-Ling Lau  David W. Chan 《Educational studies》2001,27(2):187-200

Although academic underachievement is a familiar topic in educational research, there is no consensus on how underachievers should be selected. This study aimed to compare different selection methods, absolute split method, simple difference score method, regression method and nomination, in the identification of underachievers from a sample of 126 Chinese Grade 7 students. The results indicated that the three different statistical methods showed high congruence in selecting underachievers, but nomination selected a different group of underachievers. It was suggested that, depending on research or intervention purposes, information from statistical methods and nomination might combine to provide a more comprehensive identification procedure.  相似文献