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establish
of
a special body
body to be
be charged with
with the
task of improving the standard of Chinese
primary school textbooks and workbooks in all
subjects.
(2) selecting the most suitable and effective way of
teaching Putonghua in schools
Unlike other Chinese communities, Putonghua is not used by young children in Hong Kong as their daily spoken language. It is
is therefore necessary that we should develop our own teaching method suitable
to Hong Kong. In order to determine the most
suitable way to
to teach Putonghua in Hong Kong, we do need a special body to deal with the matter and assist the departments concerned in finding out an
answer.
(3) improving the linguistic proficiency of students,
especially in relation_to_the_spoken language
People in many quarters have deplored the poor standard of Chinese of our students in coping with
the needs of daily life (e.g. writing an application letter for a job in fluent Chinese). The emphasis on the written languages in school syllabus and language training has led to an unbalanced development at the expense of training in the spoken language. In fact, the standard of
spoken
is becoming increasingly important. At many major meetings, more people than ever before choose to speak in Chinese.
shows all the more that the standard of spoken language merits our special attention.
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