香港在1999年檢討教育制度，2000年展開語文課程改革。2002年、2006年及2009年香港課程發展議會先後編訂初中、小學及高中的語文課程指引。當時雖然受到一些阻力，但在政府和多方努力的推廣下，課改至今已有十年，語文教育改革不但是不可阻擋、不可逆轉的潮流，而且已進入深化改革的階段。 語文教育包括課程、教材、教法與評估四個範疇。香港的語文教育改革與深化工作已有一段時間，與此同時，中國大陸﹝內地﹞、中國台灣及新加坡等地﹝簡稱：三地；三地及香港則簡稱：四地﹞也在進行語文教育改革，而香港在這方面有哪些經驗可供三地參考，是值得探討的。 本文利用文獻作為研究的基礎，先探討新世紀香港語文教育改革的理念以及落實的方法，再分析香港語文教育深化改革的措施，以及師資培訓的情況。再而分析四地課改理念的同性質，作為可供三地參考的理據。最後提出三地未來深化改革的建議。

世紀之交，不少香港特別行政區的中小學校響應語文課程的改革，逐步嘗試以普通話作為中文科的教學語言。“普通話教中文”漸成趨勢，但普通話科至今仍是單科設置，獨立予中文科以外。推展“普教中”的學校要發展語文課程，都須先行解決中、普兩科的整合以及提前教學漢語拼音的問題。 教學語言轉換以後，漢語拼音變成小學生學習語文的入門工具，也是促進他們語文能力發展的利器；學生能否有效掌握拼音，將直接影響語文教學的成效。可惜教育當局遲遲未就漢語拼音教學或課程制訂明確指引，也未有提供相應的教學建議或大綱。這些年來，先導學校只能不斷嘗試與摸索，有些尋求專家學者的指導，更多是通過觀摩交流，向本地學校或到內地借鑒取經。不過，由於分科課程的制約，教師過去又多缺乏發展語文拼音課程的經驗，故先導學校在推展校本拼音教學的過程中，雖已不斷努力，在教程、教材以至教法方面多作嘗試，並持續檢討和修訂，但校本拼音課程的教學成效還是不甚理想。為提升拼音教學的效益，優化“普教中”的語文課程發展，本論文將從課程理念出發，討論教學目標的制訂、拼音系統的選取、教學序列的設定；再就實施層面，包括教材的運用、教程的規劃及教學策略的部署等，為香港小學的校本拼音教程設置，提供實際可行的建議。

Despite the fact that PMI is not the government policy, an increasing number of schools in Hong Kong have adopted different modes of using PMI in teaching Chinese Language since 1997. Such a trend has caused general concern because Putonghua (the standardized spoken form of Modern Chinese) is not the mother tongue of most teachers or students in the local community. The switch of medium in teaching the language subject may have profound impact on the cognitive development of students because most teachers and students will need to acquire another system of speech sounds and lexicon in handling the subject matter. Nevertheless, as the PMI trend prevails, language teachers are under "pressure" to adjust their teaching medium so as to meet the changing social expectation of equipping students with the standardized form of a world language. This paper reports the findings of a recent study of teachers' views of teaching Chinese through PMI in Hong Kong. Among the group of 20 serving teachers in a postgraduate course, some are proficient in Putonghua and some are not. Through a series of seminar presentation and discussion, these front line teachers revealed the current practices in different school contexts. Insights of these participants represent an "insider's" view of the issue and should inform the development of effective ways of reforming the teaching medium of Chinese in a complex social context.

This presentation will focus on how teacher feedback helps cultivate critical thinking skills and raises awareness in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course. Analysis is based on data taken from verbal/written exchanges between teacher-student and student-teacher. Samples from students' work and teachers' comments will highlight the effectiveness of the process approach in developing L2 learners' writing skills. Practical issues such as ways of organising individual and group feedback sessions will be addressed. It also argues that dialogic encounters should be gradually scaffolded in order to maximise learning outcomes.

Within the core curriculum of primary education, the standard of both Chinese and English, especially writing ability, has attracted much attention of educators, parents and the public. Experienced educationists involved in Chinese language teaching and assessment have an opinion that young people's abilities in reading and writing have dropped in recent years. It might be a consequence came along with compulsory education as there is a great increase of individual differences among pupils that makes teaching and learning very difficult. There is an urgent need to find ways to make up the gap and guarantee at least a minimum educational attainment of all pupils. As art is a core subject in primary schools in Hong Kong, this study aims to examine the effect of art appreciation in art lessons on Chinese writing ability in some primary 3 pupils in a Chinese community.