What’s wrong with Hong Kong’s English language education?
2 min readMay 4, 2020
- Students are encouraged by star tutors to sprinkle stock phrases and expressions onto their writing so as to impress examiners. Students spend the time that they could have spent on regurgitation rather than on understanding how English actually works.
- Students are more concerned with what is the correct language rather than what feels right and what reads beautiful.
- Students have little appreciation for the English language as an art.
- Students are rarely encouraged to work on and…