Hong Kong: Weak link in mother-tongue lessons

[Harold Schiffman]

 Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


The Standard



Weak link in mother-tongue lessons



Lower achievements in English among students studying in the Chinese medium
are a major hurdle to their meeting the basic requirements to university
entry in Hong Kong, a study has found. In the third stage of research in a
seven-year long undertaking, Chinese University of Hong Kong found that
students learning in Chinese had lower success rates in the Hong Kong
Certificate of Education Examination, including Chinese and English, as well
as Advanced Level exams, including Chinese language and culture, and use of
English, compared with students studying in the English medium of
instruction.



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Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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