Letters | Michelle Obama deserves credit for service to Hong Kong’s DSE English learners
- Readers discuss the reality of English teaching in a globalised world, the validity of the argument against using the golf course for housing, the daily annoyance of junk calls, and what Turkish voters should demand of their new government
The teaching and learning of English has long been a hot button issue in education. This time, the people setting and administering the test have done a thankless job amid the surge of criticism. I salute the courage of the people who set the English paper this year.
English is a living language. It has morphed into a wide variety of regional dialects, with offshoots in the United States, Britain, Singapore, the Philippines, India and more. We appear to have a Tower of Babel when it comes to English, though there are two major written forms.
When I think about the status quo of the English-speaking world, the film My Fair Lady comes to mind. Professor Henry Higgins spends three months trying to turn a flower seller of low birth into a lady of high society. His work focuses on spoken English rather than the written form.