caa a22 4500 463241320 CHVBK 20180405153313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10993-006-9039-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10993-006-9039-y The Medium Dilemma for Hong Kong Secondary Schools [Elektronische Daten] [Shek Tse, Mark Shum, Wing Ki, Yiu Chan] The most debated issue in Hong Kong education is the choice of language as medium of instruction. Historically, however, this was not simply a matter of selecting the mode that would yield the highest level of academic attainment. As a British colony from 1842 Hong Kong's education provision was based upon British precedents and models. As a result, English has long enjoyed a high social status in society, with many Hong Kong people perceiving English as a language of superiority, power and success. The resultant stigma that was attached to Chinese did not deter the prospering of Chinese. Since the formal political handover to China and the new status of Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong has grappled with the issue of the medium of instruction. This article reports on a study of a group of people centrally involved with the issue of medium of instruction in secondary schools, school administrators and teachers and discusses the results in the light of their consequences for language education planning. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Cantonese medium of instruction nationallicence Chinese language education nationallicence English medium of instruction nationallicence language policy and planning nationallicence teacher and administrator attitudes nationallicence CM : Cantonese Medium nationallicence CMI : Cantonese Medium of Instruction nationallicence EM : English Medium nationallicence EMI : English Medium of Instruction nationallicence PRC : People's Republic of China nationallicence HKSAR : Hong Kong Special Administrative Region nationallicence Tse Shek Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China aut Shum Mark Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China aut Ki Wing Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China aut Chan Yiu Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China aut Language Policy Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/1(2007-03-01), 135-162 1568-4555 6:1<135 2007 6 10993 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-006-9039-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-006-9039-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tse Shek Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shum Mark Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ki Wing Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chan Yiu Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language Policy Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/1(2007-03-01), 135-162 1568-4555 6:1<135 2007 6 10993 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer