The sociolinguistic awareness of tertiary level students in Hong Kong and Mainland China

The sociolinguistic awareness of tertiary level students in Hong Kong and Mainland China

• Littlewood, William Dept. of English, Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Li, Danli Language Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University

Language Awareness, 15(2), 97-109, 2006

Routledge

2006

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Foreign Countries Higher Education Majors (Students) Native Speakers Sociolinguistics Linguistic Competence English (Second Language) Sentences Student Reaction Comparative Analysis Metalinguistics China Hong Kong

• Hong Kong
• China

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This paper explores the sociolinguistic awareness in English of tertiary level students in Hong Kong and Wuhan (Mainland China). The language data consisted of specific instances when a native speaker presenter made changes, in the course of oral delivery, to the written text of a conference paper that she had prepared in advance. Matched pairs of sentences/utterances were selected and in each pair the written version was placed side by side with the spoken version. When native speakers were asked to judge which version had been written and which had been spoken, their responses indicated that the changes were based on sociolinguistic intuitions shared by other native speakers. For the present study, the same matched pairs of utterances were given to tertiary-level students of English in Hong Kong and Wuhan. The resulting data are used to explore the extent to which students have access to the same sociolinguistic intuitions as native speakers. Comparisons are also made between the responses of students in the two settings as well as between the responses of English and non-English majors in Wuhan.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 09658416

• 10.1080/09658410608668853

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/067b0e2f

2010-09-27