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Will the New Fine-Tuning Medium-of-Instruction Policy Alleviate the Threats of Dominance of English-Medium Instruction in Hong Kong?
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Poon, Anita Y. K. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
Medium of instruction (MOI) is a highly controversial and thorny educational issue in Hong Kong. Despite the Hong Kong government's strenuous efforts to promote Chinese-medium instruction since 1984, social and community pressure for English-medium instruction (EMI) has been immense and continues to increase. However, the dominance of English as…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Rote Learning