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Curriculum for Hong Kong’s non-Chinese WE RECOMMEND speaking, ethnic minority students leaves NEWS - HONG KONG teachers at a loss as to how to help them wins Geocaching Hong Kong Unison's report says the current framework for teaching ethnic Competition, which minority children isn't helpful required students to navigate, communicate, By Edmund Ho May 28, 2018 and rise above

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Schools with ethnic minority students need more support. Photo: SCMP/Felix Wong NEWS - HONG KONG The HK students whose The Education Bureau’s attempts to integrate non-Chinese work won awards at the Across Asia Youth Film speaking students into the mainstream Chinese curriculum Festival prove how far a have left “teachers at a loss as to how to teach” them, says a small idea can go report released by a non-governmental organisation yesterday.

Edmund Ho The report, compiled by the organisation Hong Kong Unison, NEWS - HONG KONG REPORTER said the current framework for teaching ethnic minority Hong Kong students Tall, dark, and students – the “Chinese Language Curriculum Second win top awards in handsome. These are famous English- Language Learning Framework” – lacks “clear … learning goals, just some of the words speaking competition in that do not describe me. benchmarks, systematic teaching materials, and teacher China training”. This makes it more difficult for local teachers to UPDATED: Missing support non-Chinese speaking students. 14-year-old HK girl found unharmed The report found that non-Chinese speaking students are often EVENTS May 29, 2018 bored with their language curriculum because of the lack of training for their teachers, as well as of clear learning goals. Comixtream in NO SPOILERS: Alden NOV 16 Ehrenreich and the City Donald Glover shine This phenomenon of teaching Chinese to unresponsive Wan Chai is the cradle of in Solo: A Star Wars students is not isolated to local schools. Hong Kong's animation and Story, but the last act comics (ani-com) industry misses the mark and home of Hong Kong's first art community featuring [Review] ani-com - Comix Home May 25, 2018 Hong Kong schools' Chinese history curriculum is Base. This autumn, facing some major changes aes of 2020 Comixtream in the City - League of Legends no Wan Chai transforms the longer just a hobby district's public spaces into exciting ani-com hubs. with HK's rst Zachary Perez Jones, 13, of South , says that Seven local veteran and Diploma in eSports learning Chinese as a second language is hard for him as it is upcoming ani-com artists Science programme not a language he is used to. He says he has to learn about collaborate to bring comics by and art to four distinctive HKU Space different sentence structures and the order of character strokes, locations, forming a comics and that he would find hands-on assistance with these sorts of collection that celebrates May 24, 2018 things helpful. Wan Chai's past, present and imagines its future. Netix's K- drama Busted is a The report argues for more direction from the government to MORE bust despite starring schools with ethnic minority students; more feedback from Yoo Jae-suk and Lee teachers on the front lines of teaching non-Chinese speaking Kwang-soo [Review] students; and more cultural sensitivity training for teachers. It May 20, 2018 also calls for the heightening of the Education Bureau’s “monitoring of schools … to prevent the phenomenon of … From Chewbacca's racial segregation [and] promote social integration”.  origins to past mysteries explained: 5 reasons we're Ip Kin-yuen, a Legislative Council member for the education excited for Solo: A constituency, said there should be more training for teachers, Star Wars Story so that they have the ability to “meet the learning needs of

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