Myth of the bilingual Hongkonger

shadeslayer

NKpa 發表於 14-7-12 22:18
The spoken English of our u grad is generally poorer than those 20 or 30 years ago, probably due to  ...

I do not share your optimism as the number of parents who realize there is an issue and who choose to do something about it is only a fraction of the population.

NKpa

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shadeslayer

individuals have very little influence to anything.  doing the best we can for our own children is one, keep participating in forum like this is something useful too.

talknwrite

The key is why bother to speak English in daily life as your family and friends speak Cantonese. We just don't need English at all in our daily life. Just to "show off"

shadeslayer

talknwrite 發表於 14-7-13 13:26
The key is why bother to speak English in daily life as your family and friends speak Cantonese. We  ...

True, if you happen to require no English.

NKpa

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shadeslayer

原帖由 NKpa 於 14-07-13 發表
本帖最後由 NKpa 於 14-7-13 21:30 編輯

In the colonial days, govt and large commercial firms all u ...

Do you still use English email all the time,  I do?

Do you still read and write English paper and reports? I do. And find typical Hong Kong grammatical mistakes all the time. Even papers and reports to senior management.

NKpa

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shadeslayer

原帖由 bookreader 於 14-07-15 發表
語文能力下降是全球現象，likely because of:
- 這幾十年的 communicative approach 教學
- 電子媒介興起， ...

香港是劣中之劣，because:
- communicative approach is more harming to non native English speakers


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何出此言？

shadeslayer

原帖由 bookreader 於 14-07-16 發表
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因為 native English speakers (假設在英美成長) 在日常生活不停接觸英文，學校 ...

在香港英文非常易接觸，課外完全和英文脫節，是家庭孩子自己的選擇。