This article explores how Hong Kong Chinese engineering students with low English language proficiency manage to cope with their lectures given in English. An ethnographic case study approach was used with multiple sources of data triangulated to provide a picture of the lecture event from both the students' and the lecturer's perspectives. One of the outcomes of the study, as described in this article, is that lectures have specific genres and that these genres need to be seen as more than linguistic events. By way of a case study into lecturer behaviour/intention and students' perceptions, lectures can be viewed within the wider, socially constructed context.
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Background This was a small-scale study conducted in Hong Kong Chinese language classes, based on the research in cognitive strategy instruction.
Purpose This study aimed to explore whether Chinese language teachers were able to develop their own school-based strategy instruction programme through collaborating with the researcher.
Programme description The school-based programme was mainly adapted from a Chinese reading strategy instruction programme that was developed by the researcher. It aimed to enhance students' reading comprehension through direct teaching on different reading strategies.
Sample A total of 205 grade 7 students and six teachers from one secondary school in Hong Kong participated in the study. One of the teachers and six students from his class were specially invited to participate as target subjects in an in-depth investigation.
Design and methods This study adopted quantitative methods, including a reading comprehension test and questionnaire, and qualitative methods, including think-aloud measures, interview and observation in programme evaluation.
Results Findings of the study generally suggested that the school-based programme was implemented quite smoothly in the regular Chinese language lessons, and most of the students had better performance on their strategy use and reading comprehension after receiving the programme. While the findings provided preliminary support for developing a school-based strategy instruction programme in Hong Kong Chinese language classes, some problems in changing Chinese language teachers' instructional approach are also discussed.
Conclusions This study explored the possibility of developing a school-based strategy instruction programme in Chinese language classes. Due to the small scale and exploratory nature of the study, however, certain limitations of the research design of this study should be noted.
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Hospitality educators have long been emphasizing the importance of training their students with the appropriate skills that are required by the industry. Although previous studies have shown different degrees of success for hospitality management educators to achieve this goal, there is no prior research that examines the relationship of Information Technology [IT] education and industrial applications from an education institute's perspective. This paper provides a linkage of the latest IT applications to the Hong Kong hotel industry with IT training in different degree and subdegree programs offered at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University [PolyU]. An attempt to make this connection is essential for PolyU in providing Hong Kong with the preferred graduates for the local hospitality industry.
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作者認為要改變作文教學的現狀，提高作文教學質量，就必須重視小學作文訓練系列化、科學化的研究，就必須改革作文的指導方法。因此，作者利用科技編了〈多媒體組合指導小學生作文〉訓練教材。教材的編寫與課堂教學結構都符合學生的學習理論。這套教材有助於建立小學作文教學的訓練計劃與程序；促進作文教學的現代化；成功地改革了作文的指導方法；有助於激發學生的作文興趣，最終是要使作文教學走出無序隨意的誤區。（何文勝整理）

作者從學校、教師、學生及師資培訓等角度，探討1998年香港中小學實施普通話新課程的問題。結果顯示：在教學安排、合格師資、教材選擇；學生水平、校本課程、校本教材、學校對本科的態度、教師用普通話授課的信心、教材用詞、學生的學習動機、和語言環境等都有不盡如人意的地方；而職前、在職培訓及基準要求的發展勢頭還不錯。（何文勝整理）

The authors' objectives are to find out the model which most principals thought most favorable in terms of the following: the feasibility of implementation; potential problems envisaged; requirements on resources; grade at which the curriculum was first started; and the extensibility to other grades.

作者藉著詞語教學的分析，介紹運用及結合文言文和現代語文教學的方法。作者提出教師應指導學生了解和分析單音節詞和複音節詞的關係，訓練學生欣賞和運用成語、習用語，並掌握文（周麗英整理）