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Appendix 2: - The Exit Interview Guide for Mainland Chinese Undergraduates

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Xuesong (Andy) Gao
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University of New South Wales
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  • (1) How well are you doing with learning English so far?

  • (2) Comparing you of today and you at the time when we first met, what changes have you made in the two years?

  • (3) Do the differences include your English or Cantonese? In what way has your current level of English (or Cantonese) been meaningful to who you are today?

  • (4) How is your Cantonese? How did you improve your Cantonese? Why did you feel that you have to work on Cantonese?

  • (5) How did you get on with your English learning here during these years?

  • (6) Have you improved your English while working on your academic subjects through English medium of instruction or spending specially allocated time on your English?

  • (7) Why are you particularly motivated to learn English at the University? Were you motivated in similar ways when you were on the Chinese mainland?

  • (8) Which particular aspects of English did you think you had problems with? Which particular aspects of English have you been mainly working on for improvement?

  • (9) Why do you think that you have not done much about particular areas of English although you feel you have problems with them?

  • (10) What have you been doing in order to improve your English?

  • (11) Which particular aspects of English do you think you still have problems with? What kind of activities or behaviors do you normally

  • associate with the idea of learning English? Are they the same as those you had on the Chinese mainland?

  • (12) How much time do you normally spend on learning English? Or how much time do you think you spend on learning English? Was it always the same during the two years?

  • (13) Are there any periods that you found yourself particularly involved in learning English? Why was it so?

  • (14) You did have some plans for learning English after your arrival in Hong Kong. How did you carry out those plans?

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