Voices without words: Doing critical literate talk in English as a second language

Voices without words: Doing critical literate talk in English as a second language

• Luk, Jasmine The University of Hong Kong
• Lin, Mei Yi Angel The University of Hong Kong

TESOL Quarterly, 49(1), 67-91, 2015

TESOL International Association

2015

• F 教與學
  • FC 批判思考、學習技巧、時間
• 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

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 未指定或無法歸類

Critical thinking is believed to be an essential skill for 21st century survival and therefore has been widely promoted in education. In Hong Kong, critical thinking is one of nine generic skills to be developed across all subjects, including English. How students do critical thinking in ESL, which is seldom used outside school and yet holds high social value, has, however, been underresearched. This article is concerned with how some low-English-proficiency senior secondary students in Hong Kong conducted critical talk in English. The study specifically investigates how the students used English to express ideas that were first developed in Cantonese (the students' first language). Based on a discourse analysis of the criticality and elaborateness of the Cantonese and English utterances of one group of students, the authors discuss findings that reveal a significant contrast between the students' more elaborated discourse in Cantonese and a restricted discourse in English characterised by reduced content and limited lexicogrammatical structures. The findings call for more attention to the impacts of linguistic proficiencies on critical thinking performance of ESL learners and to how the communicative gaps in critical literate talk revealed in ESL learners' first and second languages can be gradually reduced.

• 英文

期刊論文

• 00398322

• 10.1002/tesq.161

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/db882394

2023-11-09