Alice Chik
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 195899 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alice Chik |
| NOMBRES | Alice |
| APELLIDO | Chik |
| FIRMA | CHIK A |
| AFILIACIONES | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5873-4731 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Time matters
Time and its management, as evident in the scheduling, sequencing and structuring of activities, is important in early childhood education (ECE). While ECE apps have been changing teaching and learning practices for over a decade, research has yet to examine how they represent and manage time. To address this gap, we analysed the representation and management of time in iHuman ABC, a popular English learning app for children in China. Adopting Dj…
Narrative Research in Applied Linguistics, Language Education, and Tesol Quarterly
This paper aims to position narrative research within the realm of language education and examine its methodological application in TESOL Quarterly publications. I will first discuss the earlier developments stemming from life history research before focusing on the key conceptual principles explored in prior studies within language education. Two publications from TESOL Quarterly—by Tsui (2007) and Séguis et al. (2024)—will illustrate the method…
Culinary linguistic landscapes of emerging Chinatowns
While traditional Chinatowns have been widely studied, less is known about how Chinese diasporic communities become visible in emerging Chinatowns. Since restaurant signage is both prominent and economically driven, the culinary linguistic landscape is an ideal site for examining how multilingual and multimodal resources convey cultural authenticity and commercial branding. This study analyses 109 photographs of signage from 32 Chinese restaurant…
Bioecological understanding of Korean Australian families’ heritage language maintenance
While Australia is a multilingual country, there is an accelerated shift from migrant heritage languages (HL) to English in migrant families. Korean migrants, however, reverse this trend, as they show a high level of HL maintenance. The maintenance of Korean can be attributed to the presence of well-established Korean-learning environments in the community. Focusing on the Korean communities in Australia, this study extends the knowledge about th…
Navigating the complexities of a virtual exchange with young language learners
Although virtual exchange, or telecollaboration, is recognised as an effective language learning approach, little is known about in-service teachers’ perspectives on its implementation in primary and lower secondary school settings. Supporting language teachers in conducting virtual exchanges with young students requires an understanding of both immediate classroom dynamics and broader educational contexts. This one-year qualitative case study ex…
Linguistically responsive assessment for learning in primary education
Linguistically responsive assessment practices, such as simplifying the language of a test, can contribute to reducing educational inequity. Most research, however, has focused on Assessment of Learning (summative assessment), particularly in secondary education upwards, giving less attention to Assessment for Learning (formative assessment) and primary education. Consequently, there is limited understanding of how to design linguistically respon…
Perceptions of urban signage in an emerging Chinatown
Research on new migrants from the People’s Republic of China, commonly called xinyimin has expanded, yet much of it still prioritises economic impacts over how migration reshapes urban semiotic space and how such transformations are interpreted by local publics. This study adopts a linguistic landscape approach to examine a commercially driven Chinatown in Bangkok’s Huai Khwang district. We combine quantitative mapping of 204 public signs with th…
Evaluating English Learning Apps for Chinese Preschoolers
English learning apps have been receiving steadily growing attention in research on educational technology. Yet, few studies have considered the evaluation of English learning apps for preschoolers as foreign language learners. This article examines the extent to which the design of two English learning apps for young children popular in China, iHuman ABC and Khan Academy Kids , and discourses around them reflect research evidence on how young ch…
Shared reading of picturebooks for supporting preschool children’s multilingual learning
The shared reading of picturebooks, a practice in which an adult reads and talks about a picturebook with one or more children, has been well-documented for its potential to promote children’s early language development. The past two decades have witnessed increased scholarly attention on shared reading with multilingual children, yet the potential of this practice to facilitate children’s multilingual learning, or their learning of two or more l…
Young students learning German as a Foreign Language in primary school
Aims and objectives: This scoping review aims to provide an overview of empirical research on young students learning German as a Foreign Language (GFL) in primary school settings. Methodology: A systematic search was conducted across six databases in November 2023, following established scoping review methodology. The search included peer-reviewed empirical studies published between 1990 and 2023 in English or German, focusing on children aged 5…
Shared reading of wordless picturebooks for children’s multilingual and multimodal learning
Voices, visuals, and virtual connections
“Church is like a mini Korea”
Immigration from diverse countries of origin has brought to Australia a great linguistic diversity. Moving to Australia, many migrant communities tend to shift from their heritage languages (HLs) and shift to English. Korean migrant communities, however, buck this trend. Notable within the Korean communities are ethnic church congregations, which offer social networks to maintain Korean identity. Focusing on the Korean communities in Australia, t…
Do societal and individual multilingualism lead to positive perceptions of multilingualism and language learning? A comparative study with Australian and German pre-service teachers
Many metropolitan cities have undergone rapid demographic changes in recent years, and such changes hasten and widen linguistic diversities. Similar changes are happening in Sydney, Australia and Hamburg, Germany. These changes are most acutely felt and observed in the classrooms where multiple languages are spoken, despite a prevalent monolingual mindset in education in both these contexts. What do pre-service teachers think of language learning…
Malaysia’s Dual Language Programme
Imagined Communities of Chinese International Graduates in Australia and New Zealand
The rapid increase in the number of international graduates seeking employment opportunities in host countries has been accompanied by a corresponding growth in related discourse regarding how international students could successfully benefit from post‐study work visa schemes and whether or not they are ‘career‐ready’ in local job markets. This study focuses on the linguistic capital among international graduates during their study–work transitio…
Language learning beyond the classrooms
From my parents’ language to my language
The increasing influx into Australia of (im)migrants whose first language is not English has made Australia linguistically more diverse than ever. Despite this, Australia remains a strongly Anglocentric nation, and migrants, in response, tend to abandon their heritage languages (HL) and shift to English relatively quickly. Korean migrants in Australia buck this trend, as they show a relatively high level of language maintenance. The Australian Ko…
Building a virtual transnational space for initial teacher education with Australian and German students
Despite the global trend of growing diversity in student enrolment, most teacher education programmes remain inward-looking, oriented to national core standards and resist academic calls for internationalisation. While we agree that internationalisation at home is possible under certain circumstances, we put forward the argument that dialogic contact between student teachers in different national contexts has the potential to foster teacher educa…
“I want my children to become global citizens”
Increasing globalisation has spurred a flow of migrants worldwide. These movements include exchanges of migrants’ linguistic repertoires across regions, transforming the ways in which they define themselves in a multilingual society. Unlike identity categories such as ethnic identity, the contested concept of citizenship identity has remained underexplored in heritage language (HL) research. Focusing on Korean migrant families in Australia, this …
Understanding the translingual practices among international students in multilingual cities
The impact of global mobility and technology innovations on urban linguistic diversity poses a key challenge to understand how and to what extent international students are immersed in the target language. Such diversity of languages and modes of communication has pointed to a fundamental transformation in the way that international students interact with both online and offline resources. The translingual practices of Chinese international stude…
The value of multilingualism for sustainable development
This paper forwards the notion that languages are an important resource for sustainable development for modern societies. Informed by theories from both sociolinguistics and language economics on the value of language skills, it is suggested that language(s) have different kinds of value in multilingual societies. Sociolinguists often emphasize the value languages have to their speakers and highlight the importance of social justice and equality …
Discussion of the special issue. Beliefs about multilingualism
In this commentary to the special issue, we will present our personal understanding of how its five papers contribute to advance the research field of beliefs about multilingualism and a critical stance on how multilingualism has been approached in the literature. We will point some ways forward on the research on beliefs about multilingualism claiming that this research area needs to shift from a rather Eurocentric perspective, to embrace less l…
Family language policy and bilingual parenting in monolingual Beijing
This study explored the family language policy, parental beliefs, and bilingual parenting in Beijing, a typical monolingual society. Stratified random sampling was conducted to recruit 192 parents of Chinese preschoolers (ages 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, and 5.5 years). They were surveyed with the Home Language Environment and Practices (HLEP) developed for this study. The statistical results indicated that: (1) the majority of Beijing families (90.1%) did no…
Commentary
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Creative multilingualism in Hong Kong popular music
In the post-war years, Hong Kong popular music has been characterized by several different configurations of languages. In the 1950s, Mandarin Chinese popular songs, inherited from pre-communist Shanghai, and Cantonese opera were the two main mass-mediated styles. In the 1960s and early 1970s, Mandarin came second to English pop, with Cantonese playing a minor role, while the mid-1970s saw the rise of mass-market Cantonese popular music, known as…
A comparative multimodal analysis of restaurant reviews from two geographical contexts
In this article, the authors offer a comparative approach to the analysis of a popular internet genre – user-generated restaurant reviews – sampled from two different websites ( OpenRice and Yelp), which have emerged from two different geographic contexts (Hong Kong and the US). Their investigation reveals both similarities and differences of in terms of review format, content discussed and the use of several semiotic resources, such as the posti…
Engaging with Digital Literacies in Tesol
Multimodal linguistic biographies of prospective foreign language teachers in Germany
Linguistic biographies have been increasingly used in language and teacher education, even if mainly in a written form. In this study we analyse 33 visual linguistic biographies, using drawings to examine the (re)constructions of the multilingual self. The visual linguistic biographies were produced by prospective Spanish language teachers at the University of Hamburg (Winter Semester 2017). We looked at the visual composition of the linguistic b…
From my parents’ language to my language
The increasing influx into Australia of (im)migrants whose first language is not English has made Australia linguistically more diverse than ever. Despite this, Australia remains a strongly Anglocentric nation, and migrants, in response, tend to abandon their heritage languages (HL) and shift to English relatively quickly. Korean migrants in Australia buck this trend, as they show a relatively high level of language maintenance. The Australian Ko…
Age, Gender and Language Teacher Identity
Two countries, one policy
Shared reading of wordless picturebooks for children’s multilingual and multimodal learning
Language learning beyond the classrooms
The role of government's 'Owned Media' in fostering cultural inclusion
This article examines government approaches to public communications at the time of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, with a focus on how one state government body, namely, the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education in Australia, has engaged with key stakeholders at a time when home-school communications has been heavily impacted by COVID-19. Through analysis of the Department's 'owned' online communications platforms, such…
Humorous interaction, language learning, and social media
The rising popularity of language learning social network websites (LLSNSs) like Duolingo and Hellolingo reconfigures traditional language learning by providing structured learning materials and spaces for social interaction among language learners. The social interactive aspects have been celebrated to be the facilitating reason to advance learning. Many of these LLSNSs also claim to have millions of active users. This is then the first time in …
Creative multilingualism in Hong Kong popular music
In the post-war years, Hong Kong popular music has been characterized by several different configurations of languages. In the 1950s, Mandarin Chinese popular songs, inherited from pre-communist Shanghai, and Cantonese opera were the two main mass-mediated styles. In the 1960s and early 1970s, Mandarin came second to English pop, with Cantonese playing a minor role, while the mid-1970s saw the rise of mass-market Cantonese popular music, known as…
Online Language Learning Histories Exchange
Critical Discourse Analysis of Multilingual Interactions in the New Media
User‐friendly Web 2.0 tools allow Internet users to participate on a much larger scale than ever before, without having the same requirement for expertise in computer literacy (O'Reilly, 2005).
Engaging with Digital Literacies in Tesol
Naturalistic Call and Digital Gaming
English Language Teaching Apps
Since the introduction of iPads in 2010, the sales of tablet computers and mobile applications (apps) have grown exponentially. iPads and other tablets are marketed as learning tools, and many apps target learners as young as six months old. This article reports on a research project examining the unique features of English learning apps based on an analysis of 90 app descriptions. Findings suggest that most English learning apps are not designed…
Discourse and Digital Practices
Discourse and Digital Practices shows how tools from discourse analysis can be used to help us understand new communication practices associated with digital media, from video gaming and social networking to apps and photo sharing. This cutting-edge book:draws together fourteen eminent scholars in the field including James Paul Gee, David Barton, Ilana Snyder, Phil Benson, Victoria Carrington, Guy Merchant, Camilla Vasquez, Neil Selwyn and Rodney…
“I Am Not a Foodie…”
This article adds to the growing literature on foodie discourse, by providing an analysis of amateur reviews of one-star Michelin restaurants sampled from two different websites, OpenRice and Yelp, which reflect two different geocultural contexts: Hong Kong and New York City. We demonstrate that online restaurant reviews provide a means through which individuals can display their culinary capital—to an audience who is likely to share similar inte…
A comparative multimodal analysis of restaurant reviews from two geographical contexts
In this article, the authors offer a comparative approach to the analysis of a popular internet genre – user-generated restaurant reviews – sampled from two different websites ( OpenRice and Yelp), which have emerged from two different geographic contexts (Hong Kong and the US). Their investigation reveals both similarities and differences of in terms of review format, content discussed and the use of several semiotic resources, such as the posti…
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Multilingual Sydney
Beliefs and practices of foreign language learning
This paper analyzes visual and multimedia narratives produced by learners of different age groups and linguistic and cultural backgrounds to explore (a) their beliefs and practices of foreign language learning; and (b) visual metaphors used by learners in hand-drawn and computer-mediated texts. The texts were collected from language learners from primary school to university in Sydney, Berlin, and Hong Kong. These learner narratives add new dimen…
Multilingual Sydney
Made in Hong Kong
The construal of English as a global language in Korean EFL textbooks for primary school children
Reflecting the continued rise of English as a global language, English as a foreign language (EFL) has become a compulsory primary school subject across many non-English-speaking countries. This trend has been accompanied by publishers’ investment in the development of EFL teaching materials for young learners. Such materials rely heavily on images, with relatively sparse writing in English and the children’s first language. This study examines E…
What does language awareness look like? Visual methodologies in language learning and teaching research (2000–2018)
The acquisition of a language is a complex process. Applied Linguistics research tends to view this process as classroom-based. It is only more recently that learners, in particular young learners, are being placed in the centre of investigation in research exploring language learning from their subjective perspectives.To understand these learner-centred perspectives, there is a growing body of work using visual methodologies, despite the fact th…
Multimodal linguistic biographies of prospective foreign language teachers in Germany
Linguistic biographies have been increasingly used in language and teacher education, even if mainly in a written form. In this study we analyse 33 visual linguistic biographies, using drawings to examine the (re)constructions of the multilingual self. The visual linguistic biographies were produced by prospective Spanish language teachers at the University of Hamburg (Winter Semester 2017). We looked at the visual composition of the linguistic b…
Age, Gender and Language Teacher Identity
Two countries, one policy
Humorous interaction, language learning, and social media
The rising popularity of language learning social network websites (LLSNSs) like Duolingo and Hellolingo reconfigures traditional language learning by providing structured learning materials and spaces for social interaction among language learners. The social interactive aspects have been celebrated to be the facilitating reason to advance learning. Many of these LLSNSs also claim to have millions of active users. This is then the first time in …
Commentary
The role of government's 'Owned Media' in fostering cultural inclusion
This article examines government approaches to public communications at the time of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, with a focus on how one state government body, namely, the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education in Australia, has engaged with key stakeholders at a time when home-school communications has been heavily impacted by COVID-19. Through analysis of the Department's 'owned' online communications platforms, such…
Family language policy and bilingual parenting in monolingual Beijing
This study explored the family language policy, parental beliefs, and bilingual parenting in Beijing, a typical monolingual society. Stratified random sampling was conducted to recruit 192 parents of Chinese preschoolers (ages 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, and 5.5 years). They were surveyed with the Home Language Environment and Practices (HLEP) developed for this study. The statistical results indicated that: (1) the majority of Beijing families (90.1%) did no…
“I want my children to become global citizens”
Increasing globalisation has spurred a flow of migrants worldwide. These movements include exchanges of migrants’ linguistic repertoires across regions, transforming the ways in which they define themselves in a multilingual society. Unlike identity categories such as ethnic identity, the contested concept of citizenship identity has remained underexplored in heritage language (HL) research. Focusing on Korean migrant families in Australia, this …
Understanding the translingual practices among international students in multilingual cities
The impact of global mobility and technology innovations on urban linguistic diversity poses a key challenge to understand how and to what extent international students are immersed in the target language. Such diversity of languages and modes of communication has pointed to a fundamental transformation in the way that international students interact with both online and offline resources. The translingual practices of Chinese international stude…
Linguistics (23 obras) · Sociology (22 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (20 obras) · Psychology (19 obras) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (18 obras) · Pedagogy (18 obras) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (18 obras) · Computer Science (17 obras) · Language acquisition (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras)