WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1987
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IMPROVEMENT IN LANGUAGE STANDARD RESULT OF EDUCATION MEASURES
IN
OF A THE
THE APPARENT IMPROVEMENT IN THE STANDARD OF SCHOOL CHILDREN ENGLISH AND CHINESE IN RECENT YEARS WAS LIKELY TO BE THE RESULT
OF
BY MEASURES INTRODUCED
THE SERIES
DEPARTMENT, EDUCATION SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, THE HON TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
MICHALENGELO PAGLIARI,
THE ENGLISH AND 1983 TEACHING OF THIS ALSO IN COURSES OF THE
INCLUDED THE REVISION OF HE SAID THE MEASURES
1981 LANGUAGE
AND SECONDARY SYLLABUSES IN PRIMARY
IN INTRODUCTION RESPECTIVELY; THE
1982 OF REMEDIAL CHINESE AND ENGLISH AND THE PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL TEACHERS FOR PURPOSE; THE INTRODUCTION OF WIRE-FREE INDUCTION LOOP SYSTEM
LANGUAGE THE REGULAR 1982 TO IMPROVE LISTENING SKILLS; AND
ADVISORY INSPECTORATE OFFERED TO IN-SERVICE TEACHERS BY THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.
OF
IN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON DESMOND LEE ON THE IMPACT
IN EDUCATION SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGE
MR PAGLIARI SAID 1982 UPON THE LANGUAGE STANDARD OF SCHOOL CHILDREN, THE RESULT OF
WORK ITS
OF IMPROVING THE
LANGUAGE ABILITIES TEACHERS WOULD ONLY BECOME VISIBLE IN THE LONGER TERM.
BY
"NEVERTHELESS,
THE
INSTITUTE
OF
LANGUAGE IN
EDUCATION
IS
AT THE
PLAYING A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE IN IMPROVING LANGUAGE STANDARDS PRIMARY LEVEL," HE NOTED.
A
TRAINED "SINCE ITS ESTABLISHMENT IN 1982, THE INSTITUTE HAS TOTAL OF
PRIMARY 2,718
SCHOOL
REPRESENTING TEACHERS, LANGUAGE
OF ALL NON-GRADUATE APPROXIMATELY 22.5 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL NUMBER LANGUAGE TEACHERS, HE SAID.
HE ALSO SAID THE INSTITUTE BEGAN TRAINING SECONDARY SCHOOL NON- GRADUATE LANGUAGE TEACHERS IN SEPTEMBER 1986.
STANDARD OF SCHOOL ON MONITORING THE LANGUAGE
CHILDREN,
PAGLIARI SAID THE
DEPARTMENT EDUCATION
BEGAN TO USE TESTS ATTAINMENT TO MONITOR THE EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS OF CHILDREN PRIMARY FOUR TO PRIMARY SIX CLASSES IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE IN 1976.
MR
OF
IN
THE
YEAR
ΤΟ APPLIED HE CONTINUED THAT SIMILAR TESTS HAD ALSO BEEN
IN SLCONDARY 3 LEVEL
BOTH LANGUAGES SINCE 1979 WHILE ATTAINMENT TESTING OF SECONDARY ONE AND SECONDARY TWO CHILDREN STARTED THIS AND WOULD BEGIN FOR PRIMARY ONE TO PRIMARY THREE CHILDREN NEXT YEAR.
THERE PAGLIARI,
IN
ACCORDING то MR
WAS A STEEP DECLINE
THE ABOLITION ATTAINMENT IN ENGLISH FOR THREE YEARS SINCE 1978 AFTER OF THE SECONDARY SCHOOL ENTRANCE EXAMINATION.
"HOWEVER, THERE WAS A
CONSIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT IN STANDARDS BY THE COHORT OF AFTER 1981 WITH HIGHEST ATTAINMENT BEING ACHIEVED
H HE SAID. CHILDREN WHO STUDIED IN PRIMARY FOUR TO SIX IN 1984 TO 1986,
AIE DESCRIBED
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