This study uses discourse theory to explore the teaching identities of a group of mainland Chinese pre-service teachers of English in a teacher education institute in Hong Kong. Exploring how the teaching identities are discursively constructed, the study reaches two conclusions. First, that the pre-service teachers negotiate their own positions within multiple positionings from peers, students on the teaching practicum and the broader enterprise of professional language teaching in Hong Kong

Schools in Hong Kong have been operating in a fast changing external environment in the last two decades; not only have they had to follow the international trend of implementing various educational reform initiatives but they also have had to adjust to the social changes brought about by the transfer of political governance. These changes have led to new expectations of the roles of school leaders and the ways potential leaders are prepared for these roles. This article reviews the development of leadership preparation in Hong Kong and explores future development opportunities, taking into consideration the unique nature of Chinese culture and the history of Hong Kong.
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Research conducted in the 1980s and 1990s pointed to a widening gap on Hong Kong university campuses between institutional language policy, which stipulated the use of English, and classroom practice, which often involved the use of Cantonese to explain and discuss English written materials. This article presents the findings of a multidimensional study which sought to uncover patterns of in-class and out-of-class language use at one officially English-medium institution between 2000 and 2010 and to identify the challenges that its mainly Cantonese-speaking undergraduates experience when listening to and speaking English for academic purposes. The findings were derived from two campus-wide questionnaire surveys and an interview-based longitudinal study of the student experience of English-medium higher education. The findings indicate that the gap between policy and practice has closed noticeably in the past decade in consequence of the increasing internationalisation of the student body and institutional initiatives to enforce the medium-of-instruction policy. While there is a closer, though not watertight, alignment between policy and practice in lectures and seminars, the evidence suggests that students have little need or desire to speak English outside the classroom, apart from situations in which international students or non-Cantonese-speaking students from mainland China are present.
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本文是一篇教學經驗分享的篇章，以作者任教的學校為例，分享參加教育局推行「普教中」計劃後的成效內容首先談計劃本身的目標要非常明確，因為明確才能邀請駐校專家協助完成目標；其次談成功的關鍵不是隨意改變科組本來己有的穩健課程或教學法，計劃只是在原有的建設上錦上添花，並要根據科組實際情況，循序漸進逐步推展；然後談在駐校專家離開後，如何銜接語文支援組到校的協助；最後分享實踐「普教中 」一年多來，科組老師的整體發展和寄語同行繼續努力。
The author, taking his school as an example, shares the effectiveness of using Putonghua to teach Chinese Language Subjects under the EDB Support Scheme. Joining the Scheme, the school has set clear targets and gained ample support from educational experts which contribute to the achievement of the programme. On a school-based approach, teaching content and strategies are tailor-made according to the needs of the school. After one year of supervision, the author and her colleagues were able to further develop the scheme on their own, utilizing the assistance from the language support unit of EDB in the following year. Apart from students’ learning, the scheme benefi ts the school in the sense that collaboration among different subjects greatly increase and teaching becomes more effective. Participation in the scheme, is therefore a valuable experience for them.
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