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English Skills and A Culture of Apathy

Alice Poon
Oct 19, 2008
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A blogpost at Joceyland attributed Hong Kong’s generally low English levels to four main causes (in the comments section): an influx of not-well-educated mainland migrants, the post-handover mother-tongue teaching policy, ineffective English teaching methods used in schools and the general miserable state of the education system.

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