Sample Chapter Title

Tai-man Chan

AbstractThe abstract should be a single paragraph of around 100-500 words, 12-point font, Times New Roman. It should show the main ideas and arguments you will present in your paper. This style format is in ac-cordance to the guidelines provided by Springer. More details can be found in “Manuscript preparation tool for Word” on page 2 of the Springer manuscript guideline pdf. file.

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Sample Sub-title 1

This document contains guidelines to help you prepare your re-search paper. Your paper should be in APA style and should be writ-ten in English.

When you finish formatting your paper, please e-mail it to rid-ch@ouhk.edu.hk for the editor’s consideration.

Sample Sub-title 2

The margin setting for your paper should be Top: 2.05"; Bot-tom: 2.24"; Inside: 1.81"; Outside: 1.85"; Gutter: 0".

Sample Sub-title 3

For illustrations, please use the following format:

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Sample Sub-title 4

Tables should be presented in the following manner:

Table 1. Caption illustrating content

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1. Question 1 100 50 602. Question 2 60% 20% 20%

As for figures, please use this format:

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Control group

Experimental group

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References (examples)

American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Au-thor.

Alderson, J. C. & Hamp-Lyons, L. (1996). TOEFL-preparation courses: A study of washback. Language Testing, 13 (3), 280–297.

Bachman, L. F. & Palmer, A. S. (1996). Language testing in practice. Ox-ford: Oxford University Press.

Chen, Y. M. (2002). Seeking change: From cooperative learning to profes-sional collaboration. Proceedings of PAC4 and the 11th International Symposium and Book Fair on English Teaching (pp. 185–195). Taipei: Crane Publishing Co.

Ferman, I. (2004). The washback of an EFL national oral matriculation test to teaching and learning. In L. Cheng, Y. Watanabe, & A. Curtis (Eds.) Washback in language testing: Research context and methods (pp. 191–210). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Kearsley, G. (2004). Explorations in learning and instruction: The theory into practice database. Retrieved June 14, 2011, from http://www.g-wu.edu/~tip/