With local schools being given more freedom to choose whether to teach classes in English or Chinese, there are worries that few will be able to resist the temptation to abandon the mother tongue...
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6 Feb 2009
Let me dispel a few myths about teaching and learning English in Hong Kong. To start with, people believe that, to become a world-class city, we have to master English.
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9 Jan 2009
Language bridges communication, but mother-tongue education has been among the most socially divisive government policies since Hong Kong's return to China in 1997. The switch to mother-tongue...
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10 Jul 2008
A frequent complaint among parents and teachers is that our children do not read and that their standard of literacy is in decline. Yet survey after survey has shown the opposite, at both primary...
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9 Apr 2008
Each week our two teenagers debate a hot topic. This week ...
Dennis Wu, 17, St Joseph's College
Teachers, parents and students have a lot of qualms about studying in...
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8 Mar 2008
One misty night, two motorists pick up a female hitchhiker on a highway only to see the girl vanish from the back seat of their car.
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In 1998, the Hong Kong government made the controversial decision to force most secondary schools to adopt Chinese, the mother tongue of most local students, as the medium of instruction.
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A study on the impact of mother-tongue education on students has confirmed what educators have long believed.
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When the Government announced in 1997 that all secondary schools must teach in Chinese unless their staff and students could cope with teaching and learning in English respectively, a major...
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I firmly disagree with the combination of Chinese history, world history and geography into one subject. This is neither good for students nor teachers.
This integrated subject is...
10:39PM
I refer to your editorial of April 11, headlined, 'Testing the teachers'.
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I refer to your editorial of November 2, headlined, 'Premature change'. You expressed concern regarding the proposal made by the working group on medium of instruction that some Chinese medium...
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