Supplementary to Question No. 2
in LegCo Meeting on 7.1.87
Dr. TSE : Sir, I would like to ask whether the whole question
of language policy including Chinese and English would be
already adopting
reviewed in a comprehensive way in view of the fact that some
schools are
the mother language teaching
policy and at the same time bilingualism is being valued as a
very important characteristic for Hong Kong to keep.
Secretary for Education and Manpower : Sir, the policy on
language teaching is continually kept under review. We have no
special review in mind apart from this continual
evaluating the success of existing policies.
process of
Mr. SZETO (in Cantonese) : Sir, we know that in Hong Kong we
value bilingualism. We welcome all the measures for improving
the teaching of English that have been introduced. I wonder
whether the Government will also have similar measures to
improve the teaching of Chinese in secondary schools?
Secretary for Education and Manpower :
committed to doing what it can to improve the standard
language teaching in both languages.
The Government is
of