Journal Articles
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
- Language Awareness, 15(2), 97-109, 2006
- Routledge
- 2006
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- Hong Kong
- China
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- 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. [Copyright of Language Awareness is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658410608668853 ]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 09658416
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/067b0e2f
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