Resistance and creativity in English reading lessons in Hong Kong

Resistance and creativity in English reading lessons in Hong Kong

• Lin, Angel Mei Yi Dept. of English, City University of Hong Kong

Language, Culture and Curriculum, 12(3), 285-296, 1999

Routledge

1999

• G 課程與教學:個別教學範疇
  • GB 英文
    • GBD 閱讀理解之教學方法效果、字彙教學
• S 學校環境、設備與組織
  • SH 學校文化 / 學校氣氛、師生關係
• F 教與學
  • FE 教學語文、雙 / 多語教學、雙語問題、雙語分流教學計劃、語言混雜及轉換

Cantonese Creativity Discourse Analysis English (Second Language) Foreign Countries Grade 8 Language of Instruction Reading Instruction Teacher Student Relationship

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 中學教育

In this paper, I analyse pupil-teacher dialogue, in a mixture of English and Cantonese, from a segment of a Form 2(Grade 8, 13-14yrs) English reading lesson. The lesson was video taped in a working-class school in Hong Kong, and the excerpt is taken from a larger corpus of similar lesson data videotaped in the class over three consecutive weeks. The analysis shows how these Cantonese children, with limited English, succeeded in subverting the reading lesson, which was based entirely on information extraction tasks.Instead, they negotiated their own preferred comic-style narratives by cleverly making use of the response slots of the IRF (Initiation-Response-Feedback) discourse format used in the lesson. Thus they achieved genuinely creative responses, in spite of the curriculum. The implications for teaching are discussed.
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• 英文

期刊論文

• 07908318

• 10.1080/07908319908666585

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/085f0d9a

2010-11-24