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Conference Paper: High Achievers’ Learning Experience of English for Academic Purposes: Transitioning from High School to University.
| Title | High Achievers’ Learning Experience of English for Academic Purposes: Transitioning from High School to University. |
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| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2019 |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association. |
| Citation | American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference: Leveraging Education Research in a 'Post-Truth' Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence, Toronto, Canada, 5-9 April 2019 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | This study focuses on the perceptions of learning English for Academic Purposes (EAP) of first-year elite undergraduates with high ESL proficiency admitted to an university in Hong Kong. Two in-depth individual interviews were conducted with nine participants and their written assignments were analysed. The data reveal several challenges among the high achievers in learning EAP. One evident is that the participants struggled with selecting suitable texts from sources, paraphrasing and citing them to support their arguments. This study reveals gaps between the English learnt in high school and EAP and offers insight into what first-year students need when they transition from high school to university studies. It argues that EAP should be made an essential component in first-year undergraduate programmes. |
| Description | 47.096 - MTCC Roundtable Session 20: Roundtable Session: 47.096-12 - Language Across Domains: Literacy and Oracy Experiences for Emergent Bilinguals in the Curriculum |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/276421 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Yung, WHK | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Fong, NSN | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-10T03:02:51Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2019-09-10T03:02:51Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference: Leveraging Education Research in a 'Post-Truth' Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence, Toronto, Canada, 5-9 April 2019 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/276421 | - |
| dc.description | 47.096 - MTCC Roundtable Session 20: Roundtable Session: 47.096-12 - Language Across Domains: Literacy and Oracy Experiences for Emergent Bilinguals in the Curriculum | - |
| dc.description.abstract | This study focuses on the perceptions of learning English for Academic Purposes (EAP) of first-year elite undergraduates with high ESL proficiency admitted to an university in Hong Kong. Two in-depth individual interviews were conducted with nine participants and their written assignments were analysed. The data reveal several challenges among the high achievers in learning EAP. One evident is that the participants struggled with selecting suitable texts from sources, paraphrasing and citing them to support their arguments. This study reveals gaps between the English learnt in high school and EAP and offers insight into what first-year students need when they transition from high school to university studies. It argues that EAP should be made an essential component in first-year undergraduate programmes. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | American Educational Research Association. | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | AERA (American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting, 2019 | - |
| dc.title | High Achievers’ Learning Experience of English for Academic Purposes: Transitioning from High School to University. | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Fong, NSN: fongsn@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 304909 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 304906 | - |