Language policy in British colonial education: Evidence from nineteenth-century Hong Kong

Language policy in British colonial education: Evidence from nineteenth-century Hong Kong

• Evans, Stephen Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Journal of Educational Administration and History, 38(3), 293-312, 2006

Routledge

2006

• P 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
  • PA 香港教育史
    • PAA 香港教育史 (1945年之前)
• 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
• P 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
  • PD 經濟與教育
• R 教育政策與管理
  • RC 教育規劃及決策程序、教育體系行政

Language Planning Statistical Data Foreign Countries Foreign Policy English Instruction English (Second Language) Second Language Instruction Second Language Learning Second Languages Language of Instruction Language Attitudes Political Power Economic Factors Native Language Instruction Educational History Educational Administration Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1841-1899
• 1900-1941

• 未指定或無法歸類

This article examines the evolution of language-in-education policy in Hong Kong during the first six decades of British rule (1842-1902). In particular, it analyses the changing roles and status of the English and Chinese languages during this formative period in the development of the colony's education system. The textual and statistical data presented in the article provide a corrective to the claim that the British imposed English on their colonial subjects and in the process rode roughshod over the indigenous languages. The evidence suggests that Hong Kong's education system provided opportunities for native students to attend purely Chinese schools, purely English schools or mixed-medium schools. Although the British apparently attached more importance to English teaching, they were generally at pains to emphasise that English should not be studied at the expense of Chinese. The findings indicate that language policy (be it Chinese or English in orientation) was always tied in some way to Britain's political and economic interests in the region.
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• 英文

期刊論文

• 00220620

• 10.1080/00220620600984214

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/fe56fcfb

2010-09-24