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Article: A week in the life of a 'finely tuned' secondary school in Hong Kong
Title | A week in the life of a 'finely tuned' secondary school in Hong Kong |
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Keywords | Chinese policy implementation medium of instruction Hong Kong fine-tuning policy English |
Issue Date | 2013 |
Citation | Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013, v. 34, n. 5, p. 411-430 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The 2010/2011 academic year marked an important turning point in the development of Hong Kong's medium-of-instruction (MOI) policy as it offered secondary schools greater autonomy in determining their MOI policy. This paper examines the implementation of the new fine-tuning MOI policy in a representative secondary school. It compares its school-based language policy with students' (Years 7, 8 and 10) self-reported data about their actual use of English over a five-day week. At the junior secondary level (Years 7 and 8), the findings indicate a close alignment of policy and practice only in the English-medium subjects, whereas in some other subjects, the proportion of use of English could not be clearly determined due largely to the complexity of the school-based policy and teachers' flexibility and autonomy in practice. Furthermore, it is revealed that a highly sophisticated language-using situation at the senior secondary level (Year 10) poses potential challenges for the transition of students graduating from the junior level. The paper concludes by suggesting that a likely outcome of this newly implemented policy will be a return to the colonial government's laissez-faire policy in the 1980s and 1990s, where there was virtually no monitoring of policy implementation. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/214009 |
ISSN | 2021 Impact Factor: 1.961 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.033 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Chan, Jim Y H | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-19T13:41:31Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-19T13:41:31Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013, v. 34, n. 5, p. 411-430 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0143-4632 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/214009 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The 2010/2011 academic year marked an important turning point in the development of Hong Kong's medium-of-instruction (MOI) policy as it offered secondary schools greater autonomy in determining their MOI policy. This paper examines the implementation of the new fine-tuning MOI policy in a representative secondary school. It compares its school-based language policy with students' (Years 7, 8 and 10) self-reported data about their actual use of English over a five-day week. At the junior secondary level (Years 7 and 8), the findings indicate a close alignment of policy and practice only in the English-medium subjects, whereas in some other subjects, the proportion of use of English could not be clearly determined due largely to the complexity of the school-based policy and teachers' flexibility and autonomy in practice. Furthermore, it is revealed that a highly sophisticated language-using situation at the senior secondary level (Year 10) poses potential challenges for the transition of students graduating from the junior level. The paper concludes by suggesting that a likely outcome of this newly implemented policy will be a return to the colonial government's laissez-faire policy in the 1980s and 1990s, where there was virtually no monitoring of policy implementation. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development | - |
dc.subject | Chinese | - |
dc.subject | policy implementation | - |
dc.subject | medium of instruction | - |
dc.subject | Hong Kong | - |
dc.subject | fine-tuning policy | - |
dc.subject | English | - |
dc.title | A week in the life of a 'finely tuned' secondary school in Hong Kong | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/01434632.2013.770518 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84880506214 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 34 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 5 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 411 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 430 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000321813100001 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0143-4632 | - |