Natural language generation (NLG) is a process within artificial intelligence where computer systems produce human-comprehensible language texts from information. English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ use of NLG tools might facilitate their idea generation, which is fundamental to creative writing. However, little is known about how EFL students interact with NLG tools to generate ideas. This study explores strategies adopted by EFL students when searching for ideas using NLG tools, evaluating ideas generated by NLG tools and selecting NLG tools for idea generation. Four Hong Kong secondary school students attended workshops where they learned to write stories comprising their own words and words generated by NLG tools. After the workshops, they answered questions to reflect on their writing experience with NLG tools. In a thematic analysis of the written reflections, we found students may have existing ideas when searching for ideas and evaluating ideas with NLG tools. Students showed some aversion to ideas generated by NLG tools and selected NLG tools that generated a greater quantity of ideas. The findings inform our understanding of EFL students’ concerns when using NLG tools for idea generation and can inform educators’ instruction to implement NLG tools for classroom creative writing. Copyright © 2023 The Author(s).

This study, drawing upon data triangulated from interviews, classroom research reports, and school documents, sheds light on how cross-border teachers from mainland China to Hong Kong construct and negotiate their identities when teaching English creative writing. Using identity control theory (ICT) this study examines discursive and complex identity development and reveals contextual and interpersonal factors that hinder identity construction among teachers of English creative writing. Factors include isolation from local colleagues, failure to integrate into the host community due to cultural and linguistic differences, standardized school instruction, heavy workloads, students' distrust, and students' low English proficiency. Cross-border teachers were found to experience negative emotions including stress, anger, and unease due to failed teacher identity verification in a new land. This study contributes to theoretical knowledge of ICT, suggesting inaction and secondary emotions as outcomes of the incongruence between the meanings of identity standard and input. Relevant theoretical and pedagogical implications are also discussed. Copyright © 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.

背景：西方學者利用多元感官理論啟發，曾得到不俗的效果。但這教學法是否適用於中文寫作、是否能增強學生在各種文體中的表現則從未受到廣泛研究。
目的：測試以多元感官寫作教學法提高中文寫作的效能。
樣本：兩班修讀副學士的學生，分別接受前測、教學和後測 (N = 55)。
方法：本研究採用實驗方法，兩班學生皆接受多元感官寫作教學，學習的文體為描寫文和抒情文，各兩課節(每節課3小時，共12小時)。前測、後測均由同一老師評核。分析採用2 (時間) x 2 (文體)重複評核方差分析(repeated-measures ANOVA)。
結果：兩個主要結果均見成效，唯兩者間的的交互作用則並不顯著。
結論：證實感官寫作教學能有效地提升學生書寫描寫和抒情文。
Background: Western researchers have demonstrated that the multi-sensory approach to creative writing is effective in enhancing essay writing. However, this approach has never been tested in writing Chinese essays in various genres.
Aim: The study examines whether the multi-sensory approach can enhance Chinese essay writing performance.
Sample: Two classes of associate degree students who took a pretest and a posttest after an intervention (N = 55).
Method: An experiment was conducted with students from two classes taught with the multi-sensory approach. Both classes were taught the descriptive and expressive genres, each genre in 2 lessons (12 hours total). The same teacher scored each essay in the pretests and posttests. The analysis used a 2 (time) x 2 (genre) repeated-measures ANOVA.
Result: Both main effects (test and genre) were significant, but the interaction effect was not.
Conclusion: Evidence shows that the multi-sensory approach was effective in enhancing Chinese writing in the descriptive and expressive genres.
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Mentoring as a time-honored and effective mode of training and teaching is briefly reviewed, highlighting the valuing of the mentoring relationship in educating gifted and talented youths in Chinese history. The current development of mentorship programs for gifted students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is explained with examples from the search for potential mentors within the university community, and the development and operation of the mentorship program of Chinese creative writings for Hong Kong students. Future directions in the development of mentorship programs for gifted students using reformation technology and peer mentors in double mentoring are discussed, and a model of three levels of mentoring encompassing telementoring, double mentoring, and one-to-one mentoring is suggested.
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