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Language Policies and Practices in Education

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This chapter presents diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the use of English as a teaching medium in Hong Kong’s education system, particularly at secondary and tertiary levels. The chapter commences by providing an overview of the main areas of change and continuity in medium-of-instruction policy/practice in recent decades. It then moves on to explore the rise of English-medium secondary education in the late colonial period and the HKSAR government’s promotion and subsequent fine-tuning of a controversial mother-tongue policy. The chapter concludes by examining institutional language policy and in-class and out-of-class language practices in the city’s English-medium universities.

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Evans, S. (2016). Language Policies and Practices in Education. In: The English Language in Hong Kong. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50624-5_3

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