caa a22 4500 463241339 CHVBK 20180405153313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10993-006-9037-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10993-006-9037-0 Fung Ping Dorothy University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong aut Medium and Learning in Chinese and English in Hong Kong Classrooms [Elektronische Daten] [Dorothy Fung Ping] The issue of medium of instruction and questions related to effective learning constitute an important part of the current debates on language education and the planning of education policy in Hong Kong. Since the transfer of sovereignty in 1997 a growing body of research is generating new insights into this fraught question of policy and planning. We report here the results of the first study that has adopted the phenomenographic framework of learning. This approach allows a perspective to be developed on the actual functioning of communication within content classrooms and throws light on the effectiveness of the acquisition of learning, key concepts and extended or deep understanding in terms of the language of instruction. It has direct consequences on the choices to be made within the framework of language policy in Hong Kong and is relevant to similar contexts in other settings. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Cantonese medium of instruction nationallicence Chinese language education nationallicence concept development nationallicence deep understanding nationallicence English medium of instruction nationallicence language policy and planning nationallicence phenomenography nationallicence CM : Cantonese Medium nationallicence CMI : Cantonese Medium of Instruction nationallicence EM : English Medium nationallicence EMI : English Medium of Instruction nationallicence MOI : Medium of Instruction nationallicence Language Policy Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/1(2007-03-01), 163-183 1568-4555 6:1<163 2007 6 10993 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-006-9037-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-006-9037-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fung Ping Dorothy University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language Policy Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/1(2007-03-01), 163-183 1568-4555 6:1<163 2007 6 10993 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer