Angel Chan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3821701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angel Chan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angel |
| FAMILY NAME | Chan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9547-0210 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Principal's post-observation conversations in China: Exploring interpersonal effectiveness through a theory of action lens
Principals internationally are increasingly expected to lead instructional improvement. In China, national policies require principals to conduct classroom observations and provide post-observation conversations (POCs) to teachers. While principals’ interpersonal effectiveness is widely recognized as crucial for successful POCs, they often struggle to address instructional concerns while maintaining positive relationships ( Adams and Adigun, 2024…
A comparison of learning and retention of a syntactic construction between Cantonese-speaking children with and without DLD in a priming task
This is the structural priming study on Cantonese-speaking school-aged children with and without DLD. • The study examined the learning and retention of the indirect object relative clause. • Children with DLD did not learn the construction as well as their peers. • Children with DLD probably retained the construction less well also. Procedural circuit Deficit Hypothesis (PDH) of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) predicts problems with learni…
Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder
Revisiting nonword repetition as a clinical marker of developmental language disorder: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual L2 Cantonese
This study adds to evidence that nonword repetition is informative in Cantonese. • Nearly all NWR sets differentiated monolingual groups with and without DLD. • Typically developing bilinguals and monolinguals performed similarly on many NWR sets. • Findings depended on characteristics of nonwords and scoring method. • Findings support development of Cantonese NWR tests into assessment tools. Cross-linguistically, nonword repetition (NWR) tasks h…
Exploring a Tiriti-based superdiversity paradigm within early childhood care and education in Aotearoa New Zealand
This article reports findings from a study that used a process of document analysis to examine early childhood care and education responses to increasing superdiversity in the ‘bicultural’ legislative context of Aotearoa New Zealand. The New Zealand Education Review Office has described both Indigenous Māori children and ‘children of migrants and refugees’ as ‘vulnerable’ and ‘priority learners’. This article uses the lenses of Te Tiriti o Waitan…
Promoting Resilience in Early Childhood Education and Care to Prepare Children for a World of Change: A Critical Analysis of National and International Policy Documents
In recent years, the sustainability crisis has raised interest in the concept of resilience, i.e., the capacity to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change and challenge. However, to date, resilience has only been studied to a limited extent within early childhood education and care (ECEC). This paper reports on a study that used critical document analysis of national and international policies to explore if and how the concept of resil…
What makes a complement false? Looking at the effects of verbal semantics and perspective in Mandarin children’s interpretation of complement-clause constructions and their false-belief understanding
Research focusing on Anglo-European languages indicates that children’s acquisition of the subordinate structure of complement-clause constructions and the semantics of mental verbs facilitates their understanding of false belief, and that the two linguistic factors interact. Complement-clause constructions support false-belief development, but only when used with realis mental verbs like ‘think’ in the matrix clause (de Villiers, Jill. 2007. The…
The effect of morphological structure on semantic transparency ratings
Semantic transparency deals with the interface between lexical semantics and morphology. It is an important linguistic phenomenon in Chinese in the context of prediction of meanings of compounds from their constituents. Given prominence of compounding in Chinese morpho-lexical processes, to date there is no semantic transparency dataset available to support verifiable and replicable quantitative analysis of semantic transparency in Mandarin Chine…
The use of information and communication technology in pedagogical documentation: An investigation of early childhood education in China
Pedagogical documentation has been regarded as an important practice in early childhood education (ECE) settings because it provides an opportunity to observe children’s learning and help teachers plan for learning experiences. This article focuses on teachers’ use of information and communication technology (ICT) in pedagogical documentation in an under-researched context. A qualitative study was conducted in three kindergartens in Nanjing, Chin…
A duoethnographic discussion of doctoral supervision pedagogies
This paper performs a critical qualitative inquiry exploring supervision pedagogies utilising duoethnography as both methodology and conceptual framing. We begin the inquiry by reflecting upon our social and cultural identities and our evolving supervisor/supervisee-colleague-friend relationship. Our critical dialogue then shifts to scrutinising our supervision experiences. Topics of relationships, ethics, power effects, cultural differences, stu…
Four-year-old Mandarin-speaking children’s online comprehension of relative clauses
Cantonese tone production in pre-school Urdu–Cantonese bilingual minority children
Aim: In this study, we examine the production of Cantonese tones by preschool Urdu–Cantonese children living in Hong Kong. Methodology: 21 first language Urdu second language Cantonese children (ages 4–6) and 20 age-matched first language Cantonese children participated in a picture-naming experiment with 86 words (109 syllables in total). Data and Analysis: Acoustic analysis was carried out for perceptually correct and incorrect tone productions…
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (Main): Adding Kam to Main
This paper introduces the Kam version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN). Kam is a minority language in southern China which belongs to the Kam-Tai language family and is spoken by the Kam ethnic minority people. Adding Kam to MAIN not only enriches the typological diversity of MAIN but also allows researchers to study children’s narrative development in a sociocultural context vastly distinctly different from …
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (Main): Adding Mandarin to Main
This paper introduces the Mandarin version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN) and describes the adaptation process. The Mandarin MAIN not only extends the empirical coverage of MAIN by including one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, but also offers an important tool to assess the narrative abilities of monolingual and bi-/ multi- lingual children acquiring Mandarin as a first, heritage, second, …
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (Main): Adding Urdu to Main
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN), an assessment tool in the Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) battery, aims to improve the assessment of bilingual children. This paper describes the process of adapting MAIN to Urdu. Given the lack of language assessment tools for Urdu-speaking children, the Urdu MAIN is an important new instrument that is made widely and freely accessible to researchers and …
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (Main): Adding Cantonese to Main
This paper gives an introduction to the Cantonese adaptation of Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN), which is part of the Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) battery. We here discuss the motivation for adapting this assessment instrument into Cantonese, the adaptation process itself and potential contexts for use of the Cantonese MAIN
Information Structure and Word Order Preference in Child and Adult Speech of Mandarin Chinese
The acquisition of appropriate linguistic markers of information structure (IS), e.g., word order and specific lexical and syntactic constructions, is a rather late development. This study revisits the debate on language-general preferred word order in IS and examines the use of language-specific means to encode IS in Mandarin Chinese. An elicited production study of conjunct noun phrases (NPs) of new and old referents was conducted with native M…
Four-year-old Cantonese-speaking children's online processing of relative clauses: A permutation analysis
We report on an eye-tracking study that investigated four-year-old Cantonese-speaking children's online processing of subject and object relative clauses (RCs). Children's eye-movements were recorded as they listened to RC structures identifying a unique referent (e.g. “Can you pick up the horse that pushed the pig ?”). Two RC types, classifier (CL) and ge3 RCs, were tested in a between-participants design. The two RC types differ in their syntac…
The politics and construction of identity and childhood: Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand
Diverse immigrants have significantly transformed the ethnic make-up of New Zealand, and they have brought with them diverse identities to this country. Findings from a doctoral research project which involved exploring Chinese immigrant parents’ identity choices for themselves and their children highlight the complex politics of identity. Within the field of education, children’s acquisition of a positive identity is closely related to valued se…
A cross-linguistic perspective to the study of dysarthria in Parkinson's disease
Cross-linguistic studies aim at determining the similarities and differences in speech production by uncovering linguistic adaptations to specific constraints and environments. In the field of motor speech disorders, such a cross-language approach could be of great interest to understand not only the deficits of speech production that are induced by the pathology, but also the difficulties that are induced by the linguistic constraints specific t…
The Cantonese double object construction with bei2 ‘give’ in bilingual children: The role of input
This article examines the role of input in bilingual children’s acquisition of the Cantonese double object construction with bei2 ‘give’ from a usage-based perspective (Tomasello, 2003; Lieven & Tomasello, 2008). In this domain of grammar, bilingual Cantonese—English children use the non-target [ bei2-Recipient-Theme] order more frequently and for a more protracted duration than their monolingual counterparts (Yip & Matthews, 2007). We make use o…
Children's understanding of the agent-patient relations in the transitive construction: Cross-linguistic comparisons between Cantonese, German, and English
Author: Chan, Angel et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2009; Title: Children's understanding of the agent-patient relations in the transitive construction: Cross-linguistic comparisons between Cantonese, German, and English
Children's understanding of the agent-patient relations in the transitive construction: Cross-linguistic comparisons between Cantonese, German, and English
Author: Chan, Angel et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2009; Title: Children's understanding of the agent-patient relations in the transitive construction: Cross-linguistic comparisons between Cantonese, German, and English
The politics and construction of identity and childhood: Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand
Diverse immigrants have significantly transformed the ethnic make-up of New Zealand, and they have brought with them diverse identities to this country. Findings from a doctoral research project which involved exploring Chinese immigrant parents’ identity choices for themselves and their children highlight the complex politics of identity. Within the field of education, children’s acquisition of a positive identity is closely related to valued se…
A cross-linguistic perspective to the study of dysarthria in Parkinson's disease
Cross-linguistic studies aim at determining the similarities and differences in speech production by uncovering linguistic adaptations to specific constraints and environments. In the field of motor speech disorders, such a cross-language approach could be of great interest to understand not only the deficits of speech production that are induced by the pathology, but also the difficulties that are induced by the linguistic constraints specific t…
Children's understanding of the agent-patient relations in the transitive construction: Cross-linguistic comparisons between Cantonese, German, and English
Author: Chan, Angel et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2009; Title: Children's understanding of the agent-patient relations in the transitive construction: Cross-linguistic comparisons between Cantonese, German, and English
The Cantonese double object construction with bei2 ‘give’ in bilingual children: The role of input
This article examines the role of input in bilingual children’s acquisition of the Cantonese double object construction with bei2 ‘give’ from a usage-based perspective (Tomasello, 2003; Lieven & Tomasello, 2008). In this domain of grammar, bilingual Cantonese—English children use the non-target [ bei2-Recipient-Theme] order more frequently and for a more protracted duration than their monolingual counterparts (Yip & Matthews, 2007). We make use o…
The politics and construction of identity and childhood: Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand
Diverse immigrants have significantly transformed the ethnic make-up of New Zealand, and they have brought with them diverse identities to this country. Findings from a doctoral research project which involved exploring Chinese immigrant parents’ identity choices for themselves and their children highlight the complex politics of identity. Within the field of education, children’s acquisition of a positive identity is closely related to valued se…
A cross-linguistic perspective to the study of dysarthria in Parkinson's disease
Cross-linguistic studies aim at determining the similarities and differences in speech production by uncovering linguistic adaptations to specific constraints and environments. In the field of motor speech disorders, such a cross-language approach could be of great interest to understand not only the deficits of speech production that are induced by the pathology, but also the difficulties that are induced by the linguistic constraints specific t…
Four-year-old Cantonese-speaking children's online processing of relative clauses: A permutation analysis
We report on an eye-tracking study that investigated four-year-old Cantonese-speaking children's online processing of subject and object relative clauses (RCs). Children's eye-movements were recorded as they listened to RC structures identifying a unique referent (e.g. “Can you pick up the horse that pushed the pig ?”). Two RC types, classifier (CL) and ge3 RCs, were tested in a between-participants design. The two RC types differ in their syntac…
Four-year-old Mandarin-speaking children’s online comprehension of relative clauses
Cantonese tone production in pre-school Urdu–Cantonese bilingual minority children
Aim: In this study, we examine the production of Cantonese tones by preschool Urdu–Cantonese children living in Hong Kong. Methodology: 21 first language Urdu second language Cantonese children (ages 4–6) and 20 age-matched first language Cantonese children participated in a picture-naming experiment with 86 words (109 syllables in total). Data and Analysis: Acoustic analysis was carried out for perceptually correct and incorrect tone productions…
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (Main): Adding Kam to Main
This paper introduces the Kam version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN). Kam is a minority language in southern China which belongs to the Kam-Tai language family and is spoken by the Kam ethnic minority people. Adding Kam to MAIN not only enriches the typological diversity of MAIN but also allows researchers to study children’s narrative development in a sociocultural context vastly distinctly different from …
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (Main): Adding Mandarin to Main
This paper introduces the Mandarin version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN) and describes the adaptation process. The Mandarin MAIN not only extends the empirical coverage of MAIN by including one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, but also offers an important tool to assess the narrative abilities of monolingual and bi-/ multi- lingual children acquiring Mandarin as a first, heritage, second, …
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (Main): Adding Urdu to Main
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN), an assessment tool in the Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) battery, aims to improve the assessment of bilingual children. This paper describes the process of adapting MAIN to Urdu. Given the lack of language assessment tools for Urdu-speaking children, the Urdu MAIN is an important new instrument that is made widely and freely accessible to researchers and …
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (Main): Adding Cantonese to Main
This paper gives an introduction to the Cantonese adaptation of Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN), which is part of the Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) battery. We here discuss the motivation for adapting this assessment instrument into Cantonese, the adaptation process itself and potential contexts for use of the Cantonese MAIN
Information Structure and Word Order Preference in Child and Adult Speech of Mandarin Chinese
The acquisition of appropriate linguistic markers of information structure (IS), e.g., word order and specific lexical and syntactic constructions, is a rather late development. This study revisits the debate on language-general preferred word order in IS and examines the use of language-specific means to encode IS in Mandarin Chinese. An elicited production study of conjunct noun phrases (NPs) of new and old referents was conducted with native M…
The effect of morphological structure on semantic transparency ratings
Semantic transparency deals with the interface between lexical semantics and morphology. It is an important linguistic phenomenon in Chinese in the context of prediction of meanings of compounds from their constituents. Given prominence of compounding in Chinese morpho-lexical processes, to date there is no semantic transparency dataset available to support verifiable and replicable quantitative analysis of semantic transparency in Mandarin Chine…
The use of information and communication technology in pedagogical documentation: An investigation of early childhood education in China
Pedagogical documentation has been regarded as an important practice in early childhood education (ECE) settings because it provides an opportunity to observe children’s learning and help teachers plan for learning experiences. This article focuses on teachers’ use of information and communication technology (ICT) in pedagogical documentation in an under-researched context. A qualitative study was conducted in three kindergartens in Nanjing, Chin…
A duoethnographic discussion of doctoral supervision pedagogies
This paper performs a critical qualitative inquiry exploring supervision pedagogies utilising duoethnography as both methodology and conceptual framing. We begin the inquiry by reflecting upon our social and cultural identities and our evolving supervisor/supervisee-colleague-friend relationship. Our critical dialogue then shifts to scrutinising our supervision experiences. Topics of relationships, ethics, power effects, cultural differences, stu…
Exploring a Tiriti-based superdiversity paradigm within early childhood care and education in Aotearoa New Zealand
This article reports findings from a study that used a process of document analysis to examine early childhood care and education responses to increasing superdiversity in the ‘bicultural’ legislative context of Aotearoa New Zealand. The New Zealand Education Review Office has described both Indigenous Māori children and ‘children of migrants and refugees’ as ‘vulnerable’ and ‘priority learners’. This article uses the lenses of Te Tiriti o Waitan…
Promoting Resilience in Early Childhood Education and Care to Prepare Children for a World of Change: A Critical Analysis of National and International Policy Documents
In recent years, the sustainability crisis has raised interest in the concept of resilience, i.e., the capacity to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change and challenge. However, to date, resilience has only been studied to a limited extent within early childhood education and care (ECEC). This paper reports on a study that used critical document analysis of national and international policies to explore if and how the concept of resil…
What makes a complement false? Looking at the effects of verbal semantics and perspective in Mandarin children’s interpretation of complement-clause constructions and their false-belief understanding
Research focusing on Anglo-European languages indicates that children’s acquisition of the subordinate structure of complement-clause constructions and the semantics of mental verbs facilitates their understanding of false belief, and that the two linguistic factors interact. Complement-clause constructions support false-belief development, but only when used with realis mental verbs like ‘think’ in the matrix clause (de Villiers, Jill. 2007. The…
A comparison of learning and retention of a syntactic construction between Cantonese-speaking children with and without DLD in a priming task
This is the structural priming study on Cantonese-speaking school-aged children with and without DLD. • The study examined the learning and retention of the indirect object relative clause. • Children with DLD did not learn the construction as well as their peers. • Children with DLD probably retained the construction less well also. Procedural circuit Deficit Hypothesis (PDH) of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) predicts problems with learni…
Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder
Revisiting nonword repetition as a clinical marker of developmental language disorder: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual L2 Cantonese
This study adds to evidence that nonword repetition is informative in Cantonese. • Nearly all NWR sets differentiated monolingual groups with and without DLD. • Typically developing bilinguals and monolinguals performed similarly on many NWR sets. • Findings depended on characteristics of nonwords and scoring method. • Findings support development of Cantonese NWR tests into assessment tools. Cross-linguistically, nonword repetition (NWR) tasks h…
Principal's post-observation conversations in China: Exploring interpersonal effectiveness through a theory of action lens
Principals internationally are increasingly expected to lead instructional improvement. In China, national policies require principals to conduct classroom observations and provide post-observation conversations (POCs) to teachers. While principals’ interpersonal effectiveness is widely recognized as crucial for successful POCs, they often struggle to address instructional concerns while maintaining positive relationships ( Adams and Adigun, 2024…
Psychology (18 works) · Linguistics (16 works) · Language Development and Disorders (13 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 works) · Mandarin Chinese (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (5 works)