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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