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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1988

POLICY TO PROMOTE BILINGUALISM IN SCHOOLS

TO

AND

PROMOTE YOUNGER GENERATION

THE LANGUAGES,

DIRECTOR

TO PRESERVE HONG KONG'S POSITION AS AN INTERNATIONAL TRADE FINANCIAL

IT HAS CENTRE,

BEEN GOVERNMENT POLICY BILINGUALISM IN SCHOOLS WITH A VIEW TO MAKING THE PROFICIENT IN BOTH CHINESE AND EDUCATION, MR Y.T. LI, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).

ENGLISH

OF

REPORT NO. 1 THE INSTRUCTION

SPEAKING AT THE SPEECH DAY OF THE NEW ASIA MIDDLE SCHOOL, MR LI SAID THE EDUCATION COMMISSION RECOMMENDED IN ITS IN 1984 THAT SECONDARY SCHOOLS WHICH USED CHINESE AS MEDIUM

ADDITIONAL

RESOURCES

GIVEN SHOULD BE

ΤΟ TEACHING OF ENGLISH TO AVERT ANY CONSEQUENTIAL DROP OF ENGLISH DUE TO REDUCED EXPOSURE.

STRENGTHEN

THE

IN THE STANDARD

ONE AS A RESULT, TWO ADDITIONAL TEACHERS OF ENGLISH, INCLUDING

PROVIDED TO EACH SCHOOL GRADUATE AND ONE NON-GRADUATE, WERE

WHICH

ADOPTED WIDER USE OF THE CHINESE

SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR,

MR LI SAID.

LANGUAGE IN

WIRE-FREE INDUCTION LOOP SYSTEM, A

A SECOND IN ADDITION,

LIBRARY GRANT ONE-OFF

FOR THE PURCHASE OF ENGLISH AS WELL MATERIALS IN

AS OTHER AVAILABLE TO SCHOOLS, MR LJ SAID.

ADDITIONAL

AIDS TEACHING

READING WERE MADE

FOR

THESE SCHOOLS

TO HE ADDED THAT MORE FUNDS WERE ALSO PROVIDED PARTITIONING CLASSROOMS INTO SMALLER ROOMS FOR SPLIT CLASS

TEACHING.

ADDITIONAL SECONDARY ANNOUNCED

ON THE TEACHING OF CHINESE LANGUAGE, MR LI SAID AN

CHINESE WOULD BE GRADUATE TEACHER IN

ΤΟ PROVIDED

EACH SCHOOL WITH 18 CLASSES OR MORE STARTING NEXT SCHOOL YEAR AS

NEW SESSION OF BY THE GOVERNOR IN HIS ADDRESS AT THE OPENING OF THE THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

AND

THE PROVISION OF THESE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES WOULD FURTHER AROUSE STUDENTS' INTEREST

WOULD FURTHER IMPROVE THE STANDARD OF ENGLISH OF STUDENTS, HE ADDED.

IN LANGUAGE

LEARNING

BY

A

USED MR LI ALSO SAID THE LANGUAGE MEDIUM

CANDIDATE AS EDUCATION EXAMINATION HAD INDICATED IN THE HONG KONG CERTIFICATE OF BEEN REMOVED BY THE HONG KONG EXAMINATIONS AUTHORITY IN 1986.

IN NAME TO

SHOW WHETHER IT WAS AN DROPPED BY A

THE CURRENT INDICATION ANGLO-CHINESE OR A CHINESE MIVOLF SCHOOL HAD ALSO BEEN NUMBER OF SCHOOLS, HE SAID,

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