Abstract
This paper reports Hong Kong students' attitudes towards English learning before and during the transitional period to Chinese rule. The paper starts with a brief account of the status of English teaching in Hong Kong schools in the past 150 years to give the context in which local students learn. It goes on to review studies of language attitudes and second language achievements to give a theoretical background for the three surveys conducted in the past 15 years. The data, collected from more than a thousand students from different schools, showed an instrumental motivation in English learning with higher or lower percentages at different times. Attitude variables of students, nonetheless, correlated positively and significantly with their writing proficiency.
| Keywords: | Student attitudes; English learning; English instruction; Transitional period; Hong Kong |
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