Kirkpatrick, A. (2011). Research into language education at The Research Centre for Language Education and Acquisition in Multilingual Societies (RCLEAMS) at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, China. Language Teaching, 44(3), 394-398.
摘要:Several projects that are in progress at the Research Centre for Language Education and Acquisition in Multilingual Societies (RCLEAMS), one of four Institute-level Research Centres at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, are highlighted. These include projects in the following fields: (1) the Asian Corpus of English (ACE);(2) trilingualism and trilingual education in minority regions of China; (3) linguistic and cultural ecology; (4) using the local/regional language as the language of internationalization (Cantonese and Putonghua in Hong Kong); (5) perceptions of English language suitability and processes of language assessment recruitment in Filipino call centres; (6) effects of language aptitude and personality on linguistic performance in English as a second language in two Chinese populations; (7) boundary-crossing teacher trainees; (8) vocabulary development among learners of English in a Hong Kong primary school; and (8) the Multilingual project: policy and implementation. Adapted from the source document
关键词:applied linguistics, bilingualism, multilingualism, bilingual education, English as a Second Language, Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Trilingual Education, Second Language Instruction, Hong Kong, English as an International Language, Corpus Linguistics, International Languages