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    Trilingual education in Hong Kong primary schools: an overview

    Hong Kong is linguistically complex and diverse with three principal languages: Cantonese, English and Putonghua. A substantial debate on the language policies governing the three principal languages has conti...

    Lixun Wang, Andy Kirkpatrick in Multilingual Education (2015)

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    Introduction

    This chapter gives a brief description of the demography of Hong Kong and its linguistic ecology, along with a review of language policies which have been enacted over time. Since the return to Chinese soverei...

    Lixun Wang, Andy Kirkpatrick in Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (2019)

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    Conclusion, Limitations and Implications

    This chapter concludes the study by presenting guidelines for the successful implementation of trilingual education in Hong Kong’s primary schools. We list the limitations of the study and conclude it by argui...

    Lixun Wang, Andy Kirkpatrick in Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (2019)

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    Methodology

    This chapter outlines the methodology adopted in this study. It describes the pilot study which was conducted and then goes on to describe the ways in which the schools and key stakeholders of the major part o...

    Lixun Wang, Andy Kirkpatrick in Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (2019)

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    Survey on Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools

    This chapter reports on the findings of the survey on how trilingual education was implemented in Hong Kong primary schools. A total of 155 Hong Kong primary schools participated in a questionnaire survey and ...

    Lixun Wang, Andy Kirkpatrick in Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (2019)

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    Case Study 2: School B

    This chapter provides the description of the second case study school. The chapter describes the school’s demography, the background of its students and an overview of the school’s medium of instruction polici...

    Lixun Wang, Andy Kirkpatrick in Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (2019)

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    Comparisons Across the Three Case Study Schools Regarding Trilingual Education

    This chapter compares the three case study schools and their implementation of trilingual education based on the stakeholders’ views, namely the school principal, the teachers, the students and the parents, fo...

    Lixun Wang, Andy Kirkpatrick in Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (2019)

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    Literature Review

    This chapter contains a literature review of multilingual education and how it is being implemented in a selection of countries. The chapter then narrows the review down to multilingual education in Southeast ...

    Lixun Wang, Andy Kirkpatrick in Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (2019)

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    Pilot Study in One Hong Kong Primary School

    This chapter describes the pilot study, which incorporated a case study in one primary school. The views of various stakeholders (the principal, teachers, parents, and the students themselves) towards how tril...

    Lixun Wang, Andy Kirkpatrick in Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (2019)

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    Case Study 1: School A

    This chapter provides the description of the first case study school. The chapter describes the school’s demongraphy, the background of its students and an overview of the school’s medium of instruction polici...

    Lixun Wang, Andy Kirkpatrick in Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (2019)

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    Case Study 3: School C

    This chapter provides the description of the third case study school. The chapter describes the school’s demography, the background of its students and an overview of the school’s medium of instruction policie...

    Lixun Wang, Andy Kirkpatrick in Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (2019)