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SCMP Reporter

Updated at 7.22pm:
About 90 per cent of English-language and Putonghua teachers in Hong Kong have passed benchmark requirements for teaching these languages in the coming school year.

 The Education and Manpower Bureau on Monday announced the results for the March 2006 Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers (LPAT).

 A bureau spokesman said: ?As of May, 10,838 of the 12,382 English-language teachers and 5,234 of the 5,891 Putonghua teachers [about 90 per cent in both cases] have attained the Language Proficiency Requirement [LPR] through different avenues.?

About 2,069 candidates sat the English papers in the LPAT in March, while 1,800 sat the Putonghua exams.
 
Of these, 1,196 (57.8 per cent) said they were English language teachers and 925 (51.4 per cent) said they were Putonghua teachers, the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority said.

In the English papers, only 456 of the 1,233 candidates (37 per cent) passed the oral test. Of the 1,330 who attended the writing test, only 610, or 45.9 per cent, met the standard.

Up to 85.5 per cent teachers passed the reading test, 74.3 per cent passed the listening paper and 92.7 per cent passed the classroom language assessment.

In the Putonghua papers, 53.6 per cent passed the listening and recognition test; 50.1 per cent passed the Pinyin test and 85.4 per cent passed the classroom language assessment.

But only 37.8 per cent met the standard in the oral tests.

He said that according to the bureau policy, from September English-language and Putonghua teachers must have passed all five papers in the LPAT before they could continue to teach the subjects.



Most English-language and Putonghua teachers pass benchmark tests