• Introduction
  
• Section one: Beneath the Surface - A structural approach to Hong Kong's educational priorities.
  
• Section two: Hong Kong English - An over touted subject area.
  
• Section three: Language as tool, language as medium - The fate of cross-cultural communication in Hong Kong and East Asia.
• Language as tool - Language has many uses that have little to do with community.
• Self-contained printable version (pdf document - 216KB).
  
• Self-contained printable version with Japanese cover (pdf document - 268KB).
• Language as medium - Language of the community. What lingua francas are not.
  
• Section four: Language and society. 
• Hong Kong's principal trade partners. - A reasonable estimate of Hong Kong's true need for the English language.
  
• Hong Kong's neighbors - Diversity at home and overseas.
• Section five: Hong Kong's Information Society - The structure, flow, use and language of information in Hong Kong society.
• Households and consumers. 
• Government and industry.
• Section six: Hong Kong's bottom line -- The opportunity cost of English language study in Hong Kong. 

Selected Background Information

• EARTH's preliminary critique (new window) of the Language Education Review - "Action Plan to Raise Language Standards in Hong Kong". Standing Committee on Language Education and Research, January 2003.
• English: bridge or barrier. The political economy of the English language in East Asia (pdf document - 137 KB) April 2002.
• English Language Reform: What a national government might wish to consider with regard to English language reform. An open letter to the new South Korean government (pdf document - 52 KB) February 2003.
  
• Hong Kong's Window Dressers: What sound reasoning would not dictate (pdf format - 40KB) December 2003.
• Today's Investment Is Tomorrow's Prosperity(new window) - the nature of Hong Kong society and education from a macroeconomic perspective. November 2002.