Language awareness in language education

Included bibliographical references.Selected papers originally presented at the International Language in Education Conference held at the University of Hong Kong, 14-16 December, 1994.published_or_final_versionCh.7 Towards a critical competence Chew, Phyllis G.L. Chew, Phyllis G.L. 103Ch.14 Oral miscue analysis for Chinese readers reading in Chinese Chern, Chiou-lan Chern, Chiou-lan 215Ch.9 Investigating the oral fluency of 15 EFL teachers: a quantitative approach revisited Lam, Wendy Y.K. Lam, Wendy Y.K. 133Ch.12 First language literacy and second language reading Parry, Kate Parry, Kate 181Ch.8 When does a carrot become a stick? Changing attitudes and English language proficiency of Hong Kong student teachers Crew, Vernon Crew, Vernon 117Ch.11 Self-assessment of pronunciation by Chinese tertiary students Jones, Rodney H. Jones, Rodney H. 169Ch.4 Grammatical terminology: is there a student/ teacher gap? Berry, Roger Berry, Roger 51Ch.5 Hong Kong learners and English words: the formal- semantic gap McNeil, Arthur McNeil, Arthur 69Ch.13 A theoretical framework for teaching Chinese- English/English-Chinese translation to tertiary students: the use of 'foreign translation theories' for 'domestic' purposes through S.E.A.S. Ngan, Heltan Ngan, Heltan Kong, Judy Kong, Judy 199Ch.6 Exponents of repair and other interactional features in small group work Martyn, Elaine Martyn, Elaine 87Introduction Nunan, David Nunan, David Berry, Roger Berry, Roger Berry, Vivien Berry, Vivien iCh.10 Coherence rating: what goes on in the raters' minds? Wong, Grace Wong, Grace 149Ch.1 How aware should language aware teachers and learners be? Carter, Ronald Carter, Ronald 1Ch.2 Using thematic organisation for evaluating school children's written narratives Ghadessy, Mohsen Ghadessy, Mohsen 17Ch.3 Why 'often' isn't 'always' Allison, Desmond Allison, Desmond 3

Revealing Diasporic Characters through Setting in Elaine Chew’s “The Heartsick Diaspora” (2019)

Elaine Chew exposes the impact of diaspora, dimensions of human mobility, and connectivity, in “The Heartsick Diaspora” (2019). It is about an ethnic writing group of mixed-Asian blood in London. The striking cultural differences between their native culture (Eastern) and foreign culture (Western) significantly affect the characters in the story. This study belongs to literary criticism using a formalism approach to analyze the diasporic phenomenon in the literary work. It explores the connection between the settings and qualities of the two characters in the story, namely Chandra and Wei. Chandra's personality is different from the typical Asian woman because she is cynical, often dresses androgynous, and upholds individual freedom. On the other hand, Wei, a new member of the ethnic group, seems to hide his sexual orientation from the group because it considers immoral in Eastern culture. Eventually, Elaine Chew portrays the influence of the diaspora which affects the characterization of someone because they have to adapt to their new environment but also cannot be completely separated from their roots

Tension ribbons: Quantifying and visualising tonal tension

Tension is a complex multidimensional concept that is not easily quantified. This research proposes three methods for quantifying aspects of tonal tension based on the spiral array, a model for tonality. The cloud diameter measures the dispersion of clusters of notes in tonal space; the cloud momentum measures the movement of pitch sets in the spiral array; finally, tensile strain measures the distance between the local and global tonal context. The three methods are implemented in a system that displays the results as tension ribbons over the music score to allow for ease of interpretation. All three methods are extensively tested on data ranging from small snippets to phrases with the Tristan chord and larger sections from Beethoven and Schubert piano sonatas. They are further compared to results from an existing empirical experiment

A Concept for Exploring Western Music Tonality in Physical Space

Musical theory about the structure and morphology of Western tonality is quite difficult to teach to young children, due to the relatively complex mathematical concepts behind tonality. Children usually grasp the concepts of musical harmony intuitively through listening to music examples. Placing the 12 notes of the well-tempered scale into a spatial arrangement, in which the proximity of these notes represents their mutual harmonic relationship, would allow to link physical motion through a spatial area with the exploration of music tonality. Music theorists have postulated the Circle of Fifth, the “Spiral Array”, and the “Tonnetz” as paradigms for spatial arrangements of music notes which allow mapping the distance between notes onto their “mutual consonance”. These approaches mostly have been of qualitative nature, leaving the actual numeric parameters of the spatial description undetermined. In this paper, these parameters have been determined, leading to a concrete numerical description of the planar Tonnetz. This allows the design of a physical space in which the music notes are distributed in space according to their musical consonance. Set up in an outdoor area, handheld devices (e.g. PDA) with integrated Global Positioning System can be used to play these notes at their actual physical location. This makes it possible for children to explore this musical space by moving through the real spatial area and experience the relationships of the notes through their proximity. Defining a range for each note as a circular area around each note location, consonant chords can be produced in those areas where those circles overlap. Using this concept, games can be developed in which the listeners have to perform certain tasks related to this musical space. This appears to be a promising approach for the music education of young children who can intuitively learn about music morphology without being explicitly taught about the complex theoretical mathematical background