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The Medium Dilemma for Hong Kong Secondary Schools

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Tse, Shek Kam Shum, Mark Ki, Wing Wah Chan, Yiu Man
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	The most debated issue in Hong Kong education is the choice of language as medium of instruction. Historically, however, this was not simply a matter of selecting the mode that would yield the highest level of academic attainment. As a British colony from 1842 Hong Kong’s education provision was based upon British precedents and models. As a result, English has long enjoyed a high social status in society, with many Hong Kong people perceiving English as a language of superiority, power and success. The resultant stigma that was attached to Chinese did not deter the prospering of Chinese. Since the formal political handover to China and the new status of Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong has grappled with the issue of the medium of instruction. This article reports on a study of a group of people centrally involved with the issue of medium of instruction in secondary schools, school administrators and teachers and discusses the results in the light of their consequences for language education planning.
Starting Page	135
Ending Page	162
Page Count	28
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15684555
Journal	Language Policy
Volume Number	6
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15731863
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2007-01-09
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Cantonese medium of instruction Chinese language education English medium of instruction language policy and planning teacher and administrator attitudes Political Science Sociolinguistics Language Education Applied Linguistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Linguistics and Language

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