Abstract
Hong Kong is a multilingual society with different languages and Chinese dialects. Up to now, the history of Putonghua teaching in Hong Kong has already lasted for several decades, but because of many detrimental factors, the popularization of Putonghua in Hong Kong is unsuccessful. This study analyzes the difficulty of the popularization of Putonghua in Hong Kong by looking at three factors: teachers, students and syllabus. We suggest that the language ability of the teachers, a good language milieu and a stable language policy be strengthened in order to enhance Putonghua teaching to achieve the predicted results.
| Keywords: | Putonghua; Cantonese; language identity; language ability; syllabus |
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