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secondary schools. This will facilitate the adoption
of appropriate measures to ensure that there is no drop
in the standard of English of those continuing their
education beyond Form. III, while, at the same time,
enabling other students to derive maximum benefit from
their education through the medium of their mother-tongue.
It is not intended to be more specific on this topic until
full consultation with schools has taken place. Encouraging the greater use of Chinese will necessitate
the development of text books in Chinese, the training
of teachers who can use Chinese effectively as the medium
of instruction and the introduction of improved teaching
These factors will to a large extent govern
the rate at which teaching in Chinese can be introduced.
Schools will probably wish to consider each subject
separately taking into account factors such as the nature of the subject, availability of suitable textbooks and the needs of their pupils. A pupil would then be able to take
the new Hong Kong Junior Certificate Examination in the
language of instruction appropriate to him.
techniques.
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