Hong Kong

Assessment

English or languish - Probing the ramifications of Hong Kong's language policy

A problem of severe market distortion with simultaneous excess demand and inadequate supply.

At a Glance

• Project index (HKLNA-Project Homepage)

• Indices To Major Topics (folder)
  
  • Data collection
  • Documents, Selected public and other
  • Economic modelling
  • Hypothesis testing
  • Project fund
  • Quality assessment and opportunity costs
  • Research strategy
  • Showtime
  • Statistical toolbox

• Files and Folders (general)
  
  • Artificial demand - definitions
  • General hypothesis
  • Images (restricted folder)
  • Introduction
  • Links
  • Miscellany (restricted use)
  • Navigation guide
  • Notes
  • Research schedule

• Data Collection
  
  • Data (folder)
    • Graphs (folder) See Data Collection / Graphs
    • Tables (folder) See Data Collection / Tables

• Documents (folder)
  
  • Summaries
  • Education Statistics
  • Enrolment Statistics 2001 - Contents and glossary
  • Language Education Review
    • EARTH's preliminary critique (see Quality Assessment folder below)
    • Full Report
      • English with Chinese fonts
      • English without Chinese fonts
      • Appendices 1, 3, 4, 5 , and 6
      • Appendix 2
    • Press release
  • LAW, Fanny 1999
  • Singapore
  • Department of Statistics
  • Census of Population Office
  • Advance data release No. 3 -  Literacy and language (pdf - 24 KB)
    
  • Profile of the Singapore Chinese dialect groups (pdf - 20 KB)
    
  • Singapore's demographic trends in 2002 (pdf - 28 KB)
    
  • Ministry of Education
  • Education statistics digest 2002 (Available on request - pdf 6.8 MB)
    
  • Teachers Salary Schedules
  • Teachers Statistics 2001 - Contents and glossary

• Economic Modelling (folder)
  
  • Online paper abstract
  • Variable description, assumptions, and special topics
  • Graph 1 - Industry supply curves for low- and high-level competence
  • Graph 2a - Market supply and demand - The case for distortion
  • Graph 2b - The non-market for low-level English language competence
    and the universal second language requirement
  • Graph 4 - A Summary of the net social gains and losses
  • Private sector profit - current and adjusted markets
    • Graph 5 - Current
    • Graph 6 - Adjusted
  • Graphs 7 and 8 - Change in net social benefit associated with a fall in demand
  • Graph 9 - Cost to government, industry, and the general public
  • Graph 10 - Subsidizing low- and high-level English language competence
  • Endnotes

• Glossary
  • Chinese glossary

• Hypothesis Testing (folder)
  
  • Rates of attrition
  • Relative rates of return
  • Perceived need and actual use

• Project fund (folder)
  
  • Announcement (Conferences / Holiday breaks / Project updates NEW - Every month!)
  • Board of directors
  • Community interface (flowchart)
  • Contributors
  • Correspondence
  • Documents (see Documents folder)
  • HKLNA-Project Fund Overview
  • Newsletter (folder)
    Monthly Newsletter
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    • No.1 pdf document
    • No. 2 pdf document
      
  • Objectives
  • Organization flow chart
  • Promotion
    • Today's investment is tomorrow's prosperity
    • Reaching out
  • Research projects and papers
    • Papers index
    • Project index 
  • Research Objectives (Overview)
  • Scheduled meetings

• Quality Assessment
  
  
  • 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
  • Language as tool
  • Language as medium
    
  • Section four: Language and society
  • Hong Kong's Principal Trade Partners 
  • Hong Kong's neighbors 
  • Indonesia's languages and Indonesian
  • Greenberg's diversity index
  • Section five: Hong Kong's Information Society
  • Households and consumers 
  • Government and industry 
  • Section six: Hong Kong's bottom line 
  • Preliminary critique to SCOLAR's Language Education Review

• Research Strategy (folder)
  
  • Resource Reallocation - conceptual outline
  • Ramifications of policy reform - conceptual outline

• Statistical Toolbox (folder)
  
  • Cluster Analysis
    • Classification
    • Cluster Identification
    • Clustering routines
    • Proximity measures
    • Research design issues
    • Two-stage clustering routine
  • Factor Analysis
    • Decision Tree
    • Explanation of Decision Tree
    • Factor matrix
    • Oblique Rotation
    • Orthogonal Rotation
    • Relationships among factors and their determinants
    • Scree test
    • Factor Selection Criteria
  • Multidimensional Scaling
    • Criteria ordering
    • Metric output data
    • Perceptual maps
      • Map No. 1
      • Map No. 2
      • Map No. 3
    • Nonmetric input data
    • Number and interpretation of dimensions
    • Research design issues
  • Multivariate Analysis of Variance/Covariance
    • Null hypothesis
    • Wilks' Statistic
  • Useful statistics
  • Multiple discriminant analysis (folder)
    
    • Step 1 - Estimation
    • Step 2 - Validation
    • Step 3 - Interpretation
    • Classification matrix
      
  • Multivaraiate regression analysis
  • Statistical Results (folder)