背景： 教統局檢討中學教學語言政策，提出微調的方案。
目的： 本文主要是為回應中學教學語言微調政策而寫。
論點： 文中指出主要有經濟、政治和教育三個因素影響著中學使用何種教學語文，在正常情況下，經濟為主導因素，故1949年之前，學生多選讀中文中學，1950-97年間則選讀英文中學，惟政府在回歸時的強制性母語教學政策，將政治因素放在首位，引至近年中學教學語文的亂局。核心問題是：教育署(1989)將「中英混用方式來教學」和「校本分流教學語文調適」混淆，將「在雙語教學的世界中，課堂上的講解多是英語輔以粵語，書面語才是全英文」這種學習第二語時的必經過程，貿然定性為錯誤。
總結：要解救現今中學教學語文的困境，校本分流中學教學語言微調政策應是溫和的良方。
Background: The Education Bureau reviewed the on medium of instruction in secondary schools and proposed the fine-tuning of policy.
Aim: This article is in response to the fine-tuning policy of medium of instruction.
Exposition: The economic, political and educational factors were found to be the main ones influencing the choice of medium of instruction in secondary schools. In particular, the economic factor was found to be the dominant one under normal situations. Before 1949, students chose to study in Chinese middle schools. They switched to choose Anglo-Chinese secondary schools during 1950-97. The scene has been seriously distorted recently due to the Government's strong policy of imposing mother tongue education to a majority of secondary schools after 1997. Parents, students, and educators are unhappy about the Government's explicit intervention. Crucial issue: the Education Department (1989) mixed up the [mixed code teaching] and [school based mixed mode teaching according to subjects and levels]. They wrongly concluded the auxiliary use of Chinese in some English medium class were unacceptable which is against the general trend of linguistic development of students.
Conclusion: The fine-tuning policy of medium of instruction, particularly the school based mixed mode teaching according to subjects and levels, language streaming within school will be a moderate but good way to resolve the dilemma of medium of instruction in secondary schools.
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背景： 教統會在今年二月發表檢討中學教學語言及中一派位機制的諮詢文件，邀請各界回應。
目的： 本文主要是為回應上述的中學教學語言政策而寫。
論點： 文中指出主要有經濟、政治和教育三個因素影響著中學使用何種教學語文，在正常情況下，經濟為主導因素，故1949 年之前，學生多選讀中文中學，1950-97 年間則選讀英文中學，惟政府在回歸時的強制性母語教學政策，將政治因素放在首位，引至近年中學教學語文的亂局。
總結：要解救現今中學教學語文的困境，校本分流應是溫和的良方。
Background: The Education Commission is now reviewing the policy on medium of instruction and school places allocation in secondary schools of Hong Kong. They invite response from different sectors about the present policy.
Aim: This article is in response to the above invitation on the policy of medium of instruction.
Exposition: The economic, political and educational factors were found to be the main ones influencing the choice of medium of instruction in secondary schools. In particular, the economic factor was found to be the dominant one under normal situations. Before 1949, students chose to study in Chinese middle schools. They switched to choose Anglo-Chinese secondary schools during 1950-97. The scene has been seriously distorted recently due to the Government’s strong policy of imposing mother tongue education to a majority of secondary schools after 1997. Parents, students, and educators are unhappy about the Government's explicit intervention.
Conclusion: Language streaming within school will be a moderate but good way to resolve the dilemma of medium of instruction in secondary schools.
[Copyright of New Horizons: The Journal of Education, Hong Kong Teachers' Associationl is the property of Hong Kong Teachers' Association at http://www.hkta1934.org.hk/]

香港推行母語教學已有十年，在這十年中，它始終是香港教育界備受爭議的話題。本文概述了十年來香港母語教學改革政策的變化，各方的意見以及其成效。同時本文反思了香港母語教學政策的推行所出現的問題以及其原因。
The adoption of native language as a medium of instruction has been implemented in the past decade. However, the policy remained to be controversial. In this article, the author attempts to reflect the change of the policy and its effects.
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本文主要從兩方面去闡述：
( l ）語文教合政策的歷史回顧，從傳統香港社會的母語教育為什麼會變為重英輕中，從而檢討在回歸前後香港語文教育政策的變化過程。經歷了一百多年後，香港形成為一個特殊的語言地區，這是與回歸前英國管治香港後大力鼓吹英語教育有直接的關係。從而促成香港在日後成為國際城市，本文也利用相關資料分析這個現象。
( 2 ）當前怎樣才能較快的提升兩文三語水平，有關提升語文教育水平的幾點個人看法。
The article discusses the topic in two ways:
(1) The writer attempts to review the history of language teaching policies and explore the development of medium of instruction in schools in the past century while undermining the use of mother-tongue teaching. The writer also reviews the changes of language teaching policies in Hong Kong before and after the unification of Hong Kong with her motherland, thus making Hong Kong a unique language area after a period of over one hundred years. This is mainly due to the encouragement of using English as a main teaching medium in most schools under the British rule before the unification. This may contribute Hong Kong to become an international city.
(2) The writer suggests ways to raise the level of "bi-literate and tri-lingual" (language policy) skills at a faster paceand also brings out eleven personal opinions on how to improve the standard of language teaching.
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作者認為基於英語的地位及歷史的原因，香港的「母語教學」應當有特殊的涵義和模式，一切違背這種特殊的方法和步驟都是行不通的。因此，作者認為：在《教學語言強力指引》，指引則可，「強力」卻未必；香港人的「母語」是以廣東話為口語形式，以標準現代漢語為書面形式的「中文」；「母語教學」是口頭語用的是廣州話，書面語用的是現代漢語；「中英混雜」的教學模式不但不是香港教育的弊端，反而可能是香港教育的特殊成果，可進一步豐富「母語教學」的內涵。（何文勝整理）

作者指出，香港教署於98學年，開始在大部分中學實施母語教學，推行母語教學，從而幫助學生學習及加強學生了解中國文化；目前除114間英中外，其餘的中學，將逐年改用母語教學，母語教學有優點也有缺點，推行母語教學亦有不少困難，如一些不當的誤解、支持不足、教育界持保留態度，師資及教材上出現困難，製造名校效應等，這些困難需逐一克服。（黃潔貞整理）