Aims
The aims of the English Language curriculum in Hong Kong are as follows:
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to offer every student the right to a second language which provides further opportunities for extending knowledge and experience of the cultures of other people, including opportunities for further studies, pleasure, and work in the English medium; and
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to enable every student living into the twenty-first century to be prepared for the changing socio-economic demands resulting from advancement in information technology, including the interpretation, use and production of materials for pleasure, study or work in the English medium.
The Subject Target for English Language is therefore for learners to develop an ever-improving capability to use English
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to think and communicate;
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to acquire, develop and apply knowledge;
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to respond and give expression to experience;
and within these contexts, to develop and apply an ever-increasing understanding of how language is organized, used and learned.
