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Lai, Ching-yee Evita. "An exploration into the factors affecting Hong Kong F.4 students' self-perception of their English language ability." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42576258.

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Walker, Elizabeth Anne. "Foreign language anxiety in Hong Kong secondary schools : its relationship with the age-related factors, school form and self-perception /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18635763.

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Ho, Wai-leung. "Investigating the impact of student-initiated criteria for English language school-based assessment." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40040203.

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Fung, Tak-ying Dora. "Influences on students' achievements in learning English as a second language." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38756481.

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Li, Pik-lan Carmen. "Hong Kong form 6 students' ability in English idiom comprehension in relation to their general English proficiency." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22198921.

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Leung, Man-man Teresa. "English in the Hong Kong classroom : a study of student participation in language lessons /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42574845.

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Kanda, Makiko. "DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH ORAL PROFICIENCY AMONG JAPANESE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/355716.

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Language Arts
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This study is a longitudinal study that investigated the development of English oral proficiency—complexity, accuracy, and fluency—under the pre-task and on-line planning conditions with task repetition among Japanese high school students. This study is unique because it is longitudinal and includes qualitative data. The participants were 15 Japanese high school students whose English proficiency level is categorized as low proficiency. Narrative tasks, post-task questionnaires, journals, and interviews were used in this study. In the narrative tasks, they were asked to describe a four-picture story three times with two minutes planning time, when they were allowed to listen to an ALT (assistant language teacher) tell the story and take notes. They completed a post-task questionnaire and a journal after completing the task. Interviews were conducted two times to further investigate their questionnaire responses and what they wrote in their journal entries. The results showed that low proficiency learners increased oral fluency, syntactic complexity, lexical complexity, and syntactic accuracy through repeating the same task within a single session, and syntactic complexity and lexical complexity through repeating the same type of task during the academic year. The aural input between the first, second, and third performance can lead them to draw their attention to form-meaning connections, resulting in increased oral performance. In addition, low and intermediate beginners benefited in increasing oral fluency, syntactic complexity, and syntactic accuracy, while high beginners benefited in improving oral fluency and lexical complexity under pre-task and on-line planning conditions with repetition during the academic year. The study suggests that the combined use of pre-task planning, on-line planning, and task repetition have a cumulative effect and can facilitate the development of oral fluency, syntactic complexity, lexical complexity, and syntactic accuracy for low proficiency high school learns of English. If learners are given the opportunity to plan before and during task performance with repetition, and to make the condition that draws their attention to both form and meaning, it is the most effective strategy to improve oral fluency, syntactic complexity, lexical complexity, and syntactic accuracy in task-based teaching in the classrooms.
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Shirahata, Tomohiko 1957. "The learning of English grammatical morphemes by Japanese high school students." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276802.

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This thesis is a study of the learning of English grammatical morphemes (copula, possessive, ING, plural, progressive auxiliary, irregular-past, regular-past, definite article, indefinite article, and the third-person-singular-present) by 31 Japanese high school students. The data were based on the results of the subjects' spoken language, which were tape-recorded and carefully investigated. The results indicated some similarities and differences between the present study and the previous L1 and L2 studies. The present study showed more similarities to the studies which dealt with Japanese subjects by both the Spearman rank order correlation coefficients and the Implicational Scaling Analysis based on Group Range. This indicates strong transfer from the Japanese language. But language transfer is not such a simple phenomena as the researchers in the Behaviorism era thought. Some methodological problems concerning the grammatical morpheme studies and possible determinants of the accuracy order of the morphemes were also discussed.
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Man, So-shan Susan. "First language influencing Hong Kong students' English learning." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36897784.

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Au, Suk-ying. "A study of students' responses to their teachers' written feedback on writing." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161793.

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Tang, Kit-yee Anna. "Learning independently : a study of teachers' and students' perceptions of self-access language learning in a Hong Kong secondary school /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25755365.

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Lam, Chun-hin. "Englishes in Hong Kong students' awareness of, attitudes towards accent differences and the intelligibility of accents of English /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38722975.

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Chan, Yan-ming Franklin. "A study of the effects of the medium of word processing and electronic feedback on intermediate ESL students' attitudes to writing and revision strategies." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto5F%toc%5Fpdf?B23424540.

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Watt, Tsui-shan. "An evaluation of an "Accelerated English Program"." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31963547.

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Candler, Robert. "An investigation into Hong Kong non-native speakers' recognition of and attitudes towards different accents of English." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23435896.

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Reeves, Cynthia. "HIGH STANDARDS FOR ALL STUDENTS? THE KENTUCKY EDUCATION REFORM ACT AND IMMIGRANT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2004. http://lib.uky.edu/ETD/ukyanth2004d00170/CRdis.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kentucky, 2004.
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Russell, Raymond Scott Laymon Ronald L. "Writing tasks to be utilized as criteria for the evaluation of the writing competency of secondary school students in a selected public school district." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1989. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8918623.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1989.
Title from title page screen, viewed October 11, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Ronald L. Laymon (chair), Edwin H. Griffith, Mary Ann Lynn, Thomas W. Nelson, Rodney P. Riegle. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-145) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Chow, Po-ki. "Tense and aspect in interlanguage error analysis in the English of Cantonese-speaking secondary school students /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36856228.

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Choi, Lai-yee Louisa. "A study of perceptions and practices of teachers' feedback in a Hong Kong secondary school." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31945016.

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Leung, Ki-man Kitty. "The implementation of language arts in a boys' school." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/Bibno.

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Chau, Fung-ming. "Reticence and anxiety in language classrooms : with regard to F. 1 students in a Hong Kong secondary school /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21160831.

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Akman, Gule. "English spelling errors in Swedish high school : An investigation of English spelling errors among Swedish high school students and their possible causes." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-31584.

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This study investigates spelling errors among Swedish students of English. The purpose of this research is to develop a better understanding of the causes of spelling errors and to investigate whether there are any differences between program orientation and gender. The participants are English A students from Swedish high schools in year 1. The data analysed in this study consists of essays written by the participants which have been gathered into the Uppsala Learner English Corpus (ULEC). The results showed that the academic program has a lower error rate when compared to the vocational program and that female students display a lower error frequency than male students. These results reflect the same pattern found by previous studies on achievement between the programs and across gender. However, when comparing all variables, both gender and program, the results demonstrate that academic male students had the lowest error rate of all groups, which could partially be explained by the fact that the academic male students have a higher level of engagement with video- and online games when compared to the other groups. The language processes that the participants found the most challenging were letter omission, letter insertion and letter substitution. These results follow the same pattern highlighted in previous studies on spelling among both native speakers and learners. Finally, the exchange between the vowels <a>, <e> and <i> was found to be a frequent error among the students. Experiencing difficulties with the correct usage of vowels can be explained as a transfer error.
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Leung, King-hang. "Errors and syntactic transfer in English relative clause formation : a case study of senior Hong Kong secondary school students /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31573411.

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Hsu, Yi-Ting. "Input and Uptake in High School EFL Students' Multiple-Draft Writing Process| A Case Study of a Taiwanese High School EFL Classroom." Thesis, Indiana University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10621929.

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This study emphasized the instructional input and student uptake of high school students’ EFL writing process in Taiwan. A multiple-draft writing approach was utilized to meet students’ need for writing preparation for college admission tests, the General Scholastic Ability Test (GSAT) and the Department Required Test (DRT). Thirty-six 10th grade students, whose English proficiency ranged from low to intermediate, participated in this study along with their EFL teacher. Students’ essays were assessed by two high school teachers using five criteria: content, organization, grammar/syntax, vocabulary/spelling, and format awareness, as released by the College Entrance Exam Center in Taiwan. Students wrote two themed essays during the implementation of the multiple-draft approach and two timed essays; one before the implementation of the writing approach (pre-test), and the other after completion of the thirteen writing sessions (posttest). Paired-sample t-tests measured the difference between the pre- and post-test. Results indicated a significant difference in one category, format awareness. A grounded theory approach was used to analyze interview transcript data, the field notes and peer review responses. The results indicate that students felt that the time factor had little to do with their timed writing performance; instead, confusion regarding basic English grammar, insufficient experience with English essay writing, the uncertainty of how to apply vocabulary and doubts regarding meaning of vocabulary were obstacles preventing uptake in their writing process. Students highly valued the input via personalized feedback from the teacher participant and the researcher. Though teacher-student meetings served the purpose of content development and grammar correction, students preferred one-on-one meetings with the teacher. Students benefitted from peer-to-peer discussions and heightened awareness during process writing but doubted the validity of peer review feedback they had received. The teacher participant reported struggling to step out of his teacher-centered approach while attempting to utilize the suggested student-centered instructional approach. Pressured to keep up with the school’s strict curriculum and with limited instructional time, he resisted offering basic grammar review based on students’ observed needs for English basics. These factors mitigated greatly the promised potential of input and uptake in utilizing a process writing approach with EFL high school students.

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Adams, Sharon Mary. "An investigation to establish whether specific prewriting activities have any effect on the content and organisation of the written product." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3195764X.

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To, Yuen-ling Queeny. "Attitudes of secondary one students to using self-access logs as tools for self-access language learning in a Hong Kong secondary school." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31642226.

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Lee, Sze-yan. "Language attitudes of Hong Kong students towards English, Cantonese and Putonghua." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31608255.

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Steyn, Anna. "Where do Swedish Senior High School students learn most of the English that they know? : Swedish Senior High School students’ beliefs about learning English outside the classroom versus inside the classroom." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-30560.

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The aim of this study is to investigate Swedish senior high school students’ Extramural English (EE) activities and their beliefs about learning English inside and outside of the classroom. EE is defined as English language activities that learners are engaged in outside the classroom, and includes activities such as listening to music, reading, writing, speaking, surfing the Internet, playing computer games, watching TV, YouTube and movies (Sundqvist, 2009, p. 1). The study also investigated possible gender differences related to students’ reported EE activities, and their reported attitudes about English. This study is based on questionnaire data. Twenty students participated in this study. 9 of 10 participants indicated that they believed that they are learning most of the English they know outside of school by daily contact with popular EE activities such as listening to music, followed by surfing the Internet, reading, watching YouTube, watching TV, playing computer games, writing, speaking and lastly watching movies. Boys reported a greater exposure to EE overall compared to the girls, more specifically, in their contact with music, computer games and writing and speaking in an EE context. Most of the students reported positive attitudes to English both inside and outside the classroom, but overall students reported more positive attitudes to the English that they use in their free time. The study has found no strong gender differences concerning students’ attitudes to learning English.
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Griffey, Gretchen Johnson. "Increasing the social connection between immigrant English language learners, school staff, and peers in the high school setting." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2006. http://165.236.235.140/lib/GGriffeyPartI2006.pdf.

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Woo, Yat-ping Connie. "English beyond the classroom learning strategies of F.6 students in Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31963584.

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Young, Bobetta. "International Students' Use of English Language-Learning Strategies at a Private High School." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5149.

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International students in the United States enroll in private and public high schools with a goal to graduate and attend an American university. This goal is often difficult to achieve because these students are not acquiring the academic English necessary to be successful in a post-secondary setting. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate what language-learning strategies (LLS) a group of East Asian international students at a private American high school had self-regulated and what strategies their content area teachers had taught them to use to become proficient in academic English. The conceptual framework was Oxford's findings on LLS and self-regulation, which is a self-motivated method of learning that English language learners (ELL) use to become proficient in English through control of the learning environment. The research questions explored which LLS the East Asian international students had used themselves and what LLS the teachers used to help the students attain English proficiency. Data were collected from interviews with 8 East Asian international students who were 12th graders during 2016-2017, 18 years old, and scored 18+ on the English section of the ACT. There were also interviews with 6 core content area teachers. Data analysis involved coding and development of common themes. Findings revealed that East Asian international students self-regulated LLS, and content area teachers did not purposefully plan or use LLS instruction to increase English proficiency among the students. A policy paper project based on the findings included recommendations for professional development, global education, and renewal of the international program. This study promotes positive social change by developing teacher and students' understanding of how to help all ELLs succeed at the secondary and post-secondary levels.
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Brandenburg, Emily Sullivan. "Senior project - getting back to the 3 Rs : rigor, relevance and relationships /." Electronic version (PDF), 2005. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2005/brandenburge/emilybrandenburg.pdf.

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Lee, Hoi-yan Teresa. "Students' perceptions of learning English through drama a case study of a Hong Kong class /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38723281.

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Lee, Kam-cheung Francis. "A case study of communicative language teaching in two Chinese medium of instruction secondary schools in Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22227155.

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Mitchell, Karissa Joan Sywulka. "School Supports for Chinese International Students in American Christian High Schools." Thesis, Biola University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13424738.

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Over the last decade, many Christian high schools in the United States have been adapting to an exponential increase of Chinese international students. Chinese families have shown increased interest and ability to send their teenage students to American high schools. Public high schools can only host an international student for a year, but private high schools can enroll the students multiple years. There have been few educational research studies for private high schools to refer to if they wanted to read research that would directly aid them in creating supports for their increasing amount of Chinese international students. This study’s purpose was to explore what school supports Chinese international secondary students attending Christian high schools in the United States perceived to be effective. Three Christian high schools in California participated, with a total of 23 Chinese international students completing a questionnaire in which they rated existing schools supports and answered open-ended questions. The students showed overall satisfaction with existing schools supports, while also having many ideas for improvement. The students rated the following supports most highly: opportunities to be in service projects, the performing arts, the opportunity to learn about the Bible in club meetings and camps, teachers providing help for international students, and connection with international student alumni. Students voiced that they strongly desired help building stronger connections with local students, more academic support, and more culturally appropriate food.

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Chan, Shiu-yip Simon. "An implicit approach to second language grammar instruction the effects on average ability secondary learners /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35320345.

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Ho, Wai-leung, and 何偉良. "Investigating the impact of student-initiated criteria for English language school-based assessment." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40040203.

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Lam, Yuen-yiu Ada. "Feedback on EFL writing in a Hong Kong secondary school : teachers' and students' beliefs and practices /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161136.

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Kwong, Suk-mun Elsa. "English through songs factors affecting students' motivation in an English as a second language classroom /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36736727.

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Dutta, Llipika. "The role of output in second language learning /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262828.

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Chen, Yi-Chin. "A corpus-based investigation of collocational errors in EFL Taiwanese high school students' compositions." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2579.

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Many language instructors focus on vocabulary word by word, neglecting common phrases. The result is that English as a Second Language students do not learn to speak idiomatic English (i.e. they make collocation errors). This study of the English compositions of National Tainan Second Senior High School students in Taiwan examined collocation errors, categorizing them according to Benson, Benson and Ilson's Collocation Classification System. An examination was then made of the error types as correlated with general English proficiency.
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Fung, Tak-ying Dora, and 馮德盈. "Influences on students' achievements in learning English as a second language." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38756481.

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Newlon, Geraldine J. "Plagiarism in high schools a case study of how teachers address a perpetual dilemma /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10150.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2009.
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Hu, Yuxiu Lucille. "L1 influence on the learning of English among high school students in Harbin a case study of adverbial placement /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36963586.

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Law, Wai-king. "Students' perception of the NET (native English speaking teacher) in motivating students to learn English : a case study in a band 5 school /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161100.

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Man, So-shan Susan, and 文素珊. "First language influencing Hong Kong students' English learning." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B36897784.

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Burke-Haug, Pamela. "Investigating the English Language Arts Placement of Struggling High School Freshmen." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1400.

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This qualitative case study addressed a suburban school district's placement of academically at-risk English language arts (ELA) 9th graders as the district transitions from the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJASK) to use of the unfamiliar and controversial Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). Based on the theoretical frameworks of the zone of proximal development, cognitive apprenticeship, and Bandura's model of self-efficacy, the purpose was to understand the characteristics of struggling (labeled 'academic') ELA students, placement practices and perceptions of these practices, and placement improvements. A purposeful sample was recruited of 7 staff members involved with placement and instruction of academic ELA students in Grades 7-10 for individual interviews. Using thematic data analysis, 4 themes emerged pertaining to the characteristics of academic students, placement practices, the efficacy of assessments used for placement, and improvements. Additionally, content analysis of data on academic students' standardized test scores and grades, collected from district reports, and research on reading assessments were conducted. Findings indicated consensus on the students' characteristics, but no standard procedure for placing academic ELA freshmen. A multiple measure placement matrix was created and incorporated in a white paper for the district's stakeholders, including administrators, teachers, guidance counselors, and child study team members. The implications for positive social change include a better understanding of academic students, their placement, and the benefits of communication, uniform policy, and the use of multiple measures to improve future placement practices.
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Choy, Ka-wing Karina. "How the incorporation of Language Learning Portfolios affects student's attitudes toward learning English." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36712668.

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Kwok, Wing-shan Sarina. "An exploration of students' learning of English through three language arts genres voices from a class of form two students in a Chinese-as-the-medium-of-instruction(CMI) co-educational secondary school in Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38741519.

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Ho, Chun-yun. "Students' and teachers' perceptions of using drama in the language classroom implications for teaching /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38733274.

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