TY - CHAP
T1 - Issues in language policy and planning : summary and recommendations
AU - Li, Chor Shing David
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In this final chapter, we will summarize our key findings and observations, with a view to making some recommendations regarding alternative language-in-education policy guidelines and support measures that will hopefully have some reference value to the education authorities and be empirically investigated. On account of various linguistic and sociolinguistic realities pertaining to the Hong Kong SAR, the envisioned thrust and purpose of the recommendations is to gain greater mileage in our deployment of energies and resources to help Hongkongers – Chinese and non-Chinese – to attain biliteracy and trilingual skills, a daunting yet arguably inescapable goalpost given the SAR’s geopolitical position and socioeconomically determined woman- and man-power needs. Specifically, eight recommendations will be presented, of which six are language policy issues, while two are related to language planning.
AB - In this final chapter, we will summarize our key findings and observations, with a view to making some recommendations regarding alternative language-in-education policy guidelines and support measures that will hopefully have some reference value to the education authorities and be empirically investigated. On account of various linguistic and sociolinguistic realities pertaining to the Hong Kong SAR, the envisioned thrust and purpose of the recommendations is to gain greater mileage in our deployment of energies and resources to help Hongkongers – Chinese and non-Chinese – to attain biliteracy and trilingual skills, a daunting yet arguably inescapable goalpost given the SAR’s geopolitical position and socioeconomically determined woman- and man-power needs. Specifically, eight recommendations will be presented, of which six are language policy issues, while two are related to language planning.
KW - Language policy and planning
KW - Second language acquisition
KW - Trilingualism
KW - Biliteracy development
KW - Medium of instruction
KW - Hong Kong SAR
KW - Teaching Chinese in Putonghua
KW - Preschool
KW - Young learners
KW - Songs and language learning
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-44195-5_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-44195-5_9
M3 - Chapter in an edited book (as author)
SN - 9783319441931
T3 - Multilingual Education
SP - 271
EP - 296
BT - Multilingual Hong Kong : languages, literacies and identities
PB - Springer Netherlands
ER -