Open Symposium
Multilingual Hong Kong as seen through the eyes of Japanese

June 25, 2016 (13:00 -16:00)
Venue: CPD-3.28, Centennial Campus, HKU

No registration required. All are welcome!

Co-organizers: Hong Kong Project Joint Research Team; Japanese Language Programme, Department of Japanese Studies, SMLC, HKU

Presentations (delivered in Japanese):

13:00 -13:25　 “An analysis of EMI in Hong Kong middle schools using a COLT Observation Scheme”
Yoshiki YOKOYAMA, Hokkaido University of Education

13:25 -13:50　 “Biliteracy development of Japanese-English bilinguals growing up in Hong Kong”
Aiko SANO, Hokkaido Bunkyo University

14:00 -14:20　 “Theoretical framework for analysis of JFL learners' motivation in Hong Kong”
Yoshiko KOBAYASHI, Hokkaido University

14:20 -14:40　 “Sentence-final particles in Cantonese and Japanese”
Maki IIDA, Hokkaido University

14:50 -15:10　 “On the use of “Noda” when the speaker talks about an episode”
Satoko IMAIZUMI, Graduate Student at Hokkaido University

15:10 -15:30　 “The values created by the experiences of Chinese blended learning with distance exchange”
Satoko SUGIE, Graduate Student at Hokkaido University

15:40 -16:00　 “Online language exchange between students in Hong Kong and in Hokkaido”
Yasushi KAWAI, Goh KAWAI, Tomohisa YAMADA, Hokkaido University; Makoto MITSUGI, Hokkaido Bunkyo University

This symposium is sponsored in part by Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), "Constructing Plurilingual Communities in East Asia: Implications from Hong Kong."