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Exploring the effect of staff achievement on job satisfaction in Hong Kong residential clubhouse
No full textExploring the usage and perception of elderly fitness corner in Hong Kong: a mix-model pilot study
No full textLanguage experience of ethnic minority undergraduate interns in Hong Kong: a case study of a self-financing vocational institute
No full textFrom English-only to multilingualism: English in the language policy of the United States
No full textFocusing on English, this paper presents a critical review of the long-standing controversial education language policies and language movements in the United States. This paper seeks to provide an in-depth perception of the history of English in courtse of national development of the United States which helps interpret today’s English-only monolingualism in ESL classrooms. Through the analysis of the major disputes of whether to have English as the official language of the country, this study has offered detailed accounts of the process of language policy planning during the years of “English Officialization”, “Bilingual Education” and “English Plus”. The study hopes to shed some light on understanding how to create, sustain, or reduce a language policy in education while also presenting the struggles in the areas for political and economic participation, democracy, and human rights. This study also attmpts to analyse complexities of the debates of eduation language policies and the theoretical breakthroughs in foreign language teaching that could create a justifiable space for multilingual learners to learn through their mother tongues. The paper argues that the monolingual approach for Enlgish language learning should be rejected because it denies students the right to draw on their language resources according to the sociocultural theory in language learning. Further recommendations to language policy planning are provided for further promoting the multiculturalist perspective, and pedagogical suggestions were also provided for ESL teachers to rethink about classroom language use
Learning curve
Get PDFThomas Coldefy and Isabel Van Haute designed the Hong Kong Design Institute. Two and a half years after it opened they reflect on what the building has taught them about sustainability in architecture
Let the chair speak
Get PDFBoris Berlin co-founded Komplot Design in 1987 with Poul Christiansen and in 2010 he joined with Aleksej Iskos to launch Iskos-Berlin Design. Together the two companies have focused on creating inspirational works that act as an antidote to the excessive noise of modern culture, expressing a philosophy of silence that Berlin explained to Summer Cao
The Ys man
Get PDFYohji Yamamoto is one of the most revered designers in fashion with a cult following in his native Japan and acolytes all over the world. When it came to launching Y-NOT, he turned to the HKDI\u27s Fashion and Images Department for help
Talking about my regeneration
Get PDFBenedetta Tagliabue is one of the founding partners of EMBT, the architecture firm renowned for its urban regeneration work. She speaks to SIGNED about her projects and the exhibition at HKDI
Play on
Get PDFMusic lab is the work of Higher Diploma in Interior Design student, Forest Lai Yip Lam, and pays tribute to the Hong Kong music Industry
Meals on wheels
Get PDFAll around the world, food trucks are revolutionising the dining industry as well as becoming design attractions in their own right. We explore the phenomenon, as well as the entrepreneurs and designers who are redefining the term moveable feast\u27