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(4) promotion of civic education, particularly moral

education, through the medium of the Chinese

language

Civic and moral education are essential for all

healthy societies. The use of a certain language can be of great help in their promotion. In Singapore, school textbooks written in Chinese are

designed to carry edifying contents for the

promotion of traditional thinking on morality. They play an important part in the development of

moral education. We should also promote civic and

moral education

in Hong Kong through the use of Chinese, such as the publication of good

periodicals in the Chinese language. This should be one of the areas to which the Chinese Language

Foundation should devote its efforts.

(C) Assistance in research projects

researches in

The Government is now encouraging researches on

the media of instruction such as the statistical study

on common English words, studies on Chinese vocabulary

for junior secondary school students and Chinese vocabulary in common use as well as the compilation of English-Chinese glossaries of terms for different subjects in secondary schools. Urgent

many other areas are also desirable.

appropriate for a Chinese provide financial assistance for these researches and

enable the publication of their findings. It is prudent for one to plan carefully before any action is

taken in order

of the unique

Language

It would be

Foundation

to

avoid wasteful efforts. On account

importance of the activities of the