Controversies in Medium of Instruction Reform : The Experience of Hong Kong / by Shek Kam Tse, Wing Wah Ki, Mark Shiu Kee Shum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tse, Shek-kam, author.

Ki, Wing-Wah, author.

Shum, Mark Shiu Kee, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Language Education.

Local Subjects:

Educational Policy and Politics.

Language Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2021.

Summary:

The book is an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the case of language in education reform and language policy controversies of Hong Kong over the initial two decades after 1997. It is a scholarly monograph of conscientious educators and researchers who have been active during the education reform, collaborating with different parties on school development and classroom teaching experiments. This book provides a multiple-perspective investigation into the education and language matters. Besides socio-political perspectives, this book also emphasizes the frontline educational and practical perspectives. The book explores the benefits and effective methods of mother-tongue and multi-lingual teaching that have emerged in the period. Based on the problematic experience of language purism and bifurcation in the reform, the book argues for an inclusive multilingual education policy with mother-tongue as the core. This book provides potential solutions and good practices to tackle the complex issues brought about by medium of instruction policy reforms in post-colonial times.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Languages used in HK

Chapter 3: Medium-of-Instruction policy: historical background and the 1998 reform

Chapter 4: Transitional issues in the implementation of new MOI policy

Chapter 5: Collaborative support and facilitation of change in the reform

Chapter 6: Interlanguage and subject-specific genres

Chapter 7: Multiple-case study at the school level

Chapter 8: Evidence of success of the MOI reform

Chapter 9: Review and “fine-tuning” of the MOI reform policy

Chapter 10: Conclusion.

ISBN:

9789811657849

981165784X

OCLC:

1280602105