Gender and language attitudes: A case of postcolonial Hong Kong

Gender and language attitudes: A case of postcolonial Hong Kong

• Lai, Mee Ling English Dept., Hong Kong Institute of Education

International Journal of Multilingualism, 4(2), 83-116, 2007

Routledge

2007

• A 人的成長與發展
  • AJ 性別差異、兩性教育差異、教育中的性別偏見
• N 學生與學生服務
  • NC 學生特徵和境況；學生意見與態度、學生適應問題
• G 課程與教學:個別教學範疇
  • GA 中文
• G 課程與教學:個別教學範疇
  • GB 英文

Student Attitudes Language Attitudes Foreign Countries Mandarin Chinese Multilingualism Sino Tibetan Languages English (Second Language) Secondary School Students Questionnaires Social Change Statistical Analysis Gender Differences Interviews Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 未指定或無法歸類

This paper reports the findings of a study that investigates the attitudes of 555 boys and 493 girls towards the three official spoken languages used in postcolonial Hong Kong (i.e. Cantonese, English and Putonghua). The respondents started their secondary school education one year after the city was returned to the sovereignty of China from Britain. They were in their fourth year of studies at the time of this research. A questionnaire survey was conducted to find out how differently the two gender groups perceived the three target languages when they were repositioning themselves in the new sociopolitical context of Hong Kong. Informed by the quantitative results, group interviews were conducted to explore the reasons underlying the main attitudinal differences between the two genders. Similar to the research conducted in other parts of the world, female respondents were found to be consistently more positive than their male counterparts in their attitudes towards the non-native languages while male students were more positively inclined to the vernacular. Given the more accommodating attitudes of females to other languages, it is more likely that they will be the group who pushes Hong Kong forward towards a higher degree of multilingualism.
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• 英文

期刊論文

• 14790718

• 10.2167/ijm068.0

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/0c567321

2010-11-28