The Standing Committee on Language Education and Research has welcomed the Government's decision to strengthen support measures for English language teaching and learning in Chinese-medium schools.
Chairman of SCOLAR Daniel Tse Chi-wai said members were pleased the Government had adopted recommendations to give additional resources to Chinese-medium schools to enhance English language teaching.
There were fears English language teaching would suffer as a result of the change in medium of instruction.
To encourage Chinese-medium schools to submit proposals to improve their students' English, Dr Tse said such projects would receive priority in SCOLAR's assessment of applications to the Language Fund.
'We have invited academics to submit research proposals on the impact of medium of instruction on students' language proficiency in the sixth call for applications.
'Findings of these projects will enable SCOLAR to advise the Government on the implementation of the language policy in a year,' Dr Tse said.
