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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Teachers' implicit theories of creativity were elicited by requesting 204 Hong Kong primary and secondary school teachers to list the characteristics of either creative or uncreative students. Their responses, an average of about 4 to 5 creative or uncreative characteristics by each teacher, were categorized into 42 creative and 33 uncreative attributes, traits, or trait adjectives. The most frequently mentioned creative attributes were "imaginative," "always questioning," "quick in responding." "active," and "high intellectual ability," whereas the most frequently mentioned uncreative attributes were "conventional," "timid," "lack of confidence," and "conforming." Unlike results of U.S. studies, this study yielded findings that suggested that Chinese teachers regarded some characteristics of creative students as socially undesirable and other characteristics as associating highly with intellectual functioning. Cultural differences on the perception of creativity in students are discussed.
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This paper reports the findings of a study that aims to enhance a better understanding of the Hong Kong Institute of Education teacher trainees' attitudes and

The paper reports a study that aims to reveal a more accurate picture of the strength and weakness of the primary school learners in selected topics in science. Reportedly, primary 3 and 6 pupils were interviewed with questions on the topics of reproduction, electricity, and light. This paper concludes with implications of pupils' performance on teaching and learning.

The paper reports a study that aims to compare Hong Kong student teachers' perceptions of the aims and objectives of their teacher education courses with the aims and objectives stated in the official course prescriptions. The results suggest that the two do not align because the students view education as a product and fail to recognize the importance of the overall education process.

作者通過分析1980-1991年香港中學中國文學科會考試題內容，一方面探求文學科教學目標與公開考試試題的關係；另外，作者也對如何可以測量情意教學目標，作一初步的探索。作者認為，評估學生文學科的學習成果，以測量學生在文學方面的情意發展情況，歐用生所談的課程評鑑策略和技巧，值得參考。作者的分析顯示，無論從課程目標或情意領域目標分析，試題中考核學生情意方面的不多。作者認為這是受公開考試的功能和性質的限制，但太偏重認知方面的考核，以至未能將本科的質顯示出來。因此，作者提出文學科會考，能否參考中國語文及文化科，加入讀書報告、口試等形式，以進行情意領域目標方面的考核。（何文勝整理）

作者的研究目的在探討學生自學中文的能力。研究方法以修讀中文基礎課程的大一學生中選出自學組和上課組作比較。結果顯示：兩組的學習動機、學習過程表現及學習成績的分別不大。作者認為學生自學中文的自覺有待提高；學生能模索出一些自學方法或策略以達成學習目標；自學中文的能力較強的學習興趣較為持續和主動。（何文勝整理）