Publications

Publication details [#11940]

Tung, Peter, Raymond Lam and Wai King Tsang. 1997. English as a Medium of Instruction in Post-1997 Hong Kong: What Students, Teachers and Parents Think. Journal of Pragmatics 28 (4) : 441–459. 19 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language attitude | language of instruction | language use

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Results indicate that both parents and students prefer English over Chinese as a medium of instruction, although teachers find that using Chinese is educationally more effective.