English in Hong Kong higher education

English in Hong Kong higher education

• Evans, Stephen Hong Kong Polytechnic University

World Englishes, 36(4), 591-610, 2017

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

2017

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FE Medium of Instruction, Language of Teaching, Bi-& Multilingual Education, Problems of Bilingualism, Code-mixing & Code-switching
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QE Post-Secondary Education

Teaching Aids & Devices Universities & Colleges Higher Education Globalization Decolonization

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Research conducted in the late twentieth century pointed to a gulf in Hong Kong's universities between institutional medium-of-instruction policy, which stipulated the use of English, and lecturers' classroom practices, which often involved the use of Cantonese to present and explain the content of English-language textbooks and teaching materials. This article examines the findings of a study which sought to determine whether the policy-practice divide had widened or narrowed in the past two decades under the pressure of two potentially competing forces: globalisation and decolonisation. The evidence suggests that the policy-practice disjunction may have narrowed significantly in recent years, with most of the participants' teachers evidently making a determined effort to instruct and interact with their students in English in lectures and seminars.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 08832919

• 10.1111/weng.12238

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/21f78d20

2018-06-14