Marching on a Long Road: A Review of the Effectiveness of the Mother-Tongue Education Policy in Post-Colonial Hong Kong.
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: This paper reports a study of the effectiveness of the mandatory mother-tongue\neducation policy in post-colonial Hong Kong. Special attention has been placed\non students� academic achievement before and after the policy implementation\nin 1998 in order to find out if students learn better through their mother tongue\nwithout sacrificing their knowledge of the English language. A content analysis\nhas been conducted on the relevant policy documents, and students� public\nexamination results have been gathered to serve as a policy-effectiveness\nindicator. Findings reveal that mother-tongue education is beneficial to students�\nlearning in some subjects, especially the language-intensive ones. However,\nstudents� performance in English learning has been adversely affected by the\npolicy. We end with suggestions in response to the recently announced finetuning\narrangements of the mother-tongue education policy
DOI: 10.26817/16925777.63
Authors: Vickie Wai Kei Li, Suzanne Majhanovich
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2164237456