Policies without planning?: The medium of instruction issue in Hong Kong

Policies without planning?: The medium of instruction issue in Hong Kong

• Hopkins, Mark Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Language and Education, 20(4), 270-286, 2006

Routledge

2006

• F 教與學
  • FE 教學語文、雙 / 多語教學、雙語問題、雙語分流教學計劃、語言混雜及轉換
• P 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
  • PE 法律與教育；政治與教育
• R 教育政策與管理
  • RC 教育規劃及決策程序、教育體系行政

Foreign Countries Official Languages Language Planning Educational Policy Educational Change Language of Instruction Policy Formation Sino Tibetan Languages Mandarin Chinese English (Second Language) Futures (of Society) Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 未指定或無法歸類

The debate in Hong Kong over which language (Cantonese, Mandarin or English) should be used as the teaching medium in publicly funded educational institutions predates the city's transition from colony to Special Administrative Region in 1997. In the past nine years it has been presented as the cornerstone of the ongoing educational reform process. This paper argues that the issue has become increasingly ideologically motivated since the end of the colonial period, and identifies two factors contributing to the decisionmaking process in Hong Kong: the role of outside vested interests in educational policymaking and the shortfall in specific language teaching expertise. Against the complex background of Hong Kong's official language policy of 'trilingualism and biliteracy', the paper shows how educational policymakers are constrained by these factors and prevented from engaging in substantive educational language planning as a starting point for root-and-branch reforms, and how this may have led them to commission research to support pre-existing executive decisions. The study analyses official statements and policy documents on the medium of instruction issue, in combination with observations of the current situation in publicly funded secondary schools, in an attempt to indicate future directions for Hong Kong.
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期刊論文

• 09500782

• 10.2167/le633.0

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/00f895f7

2010-09-27