Multilingualism in the workplace in the Hong Kong Financial sector In this chapter, relevant research (Chew, 2005; Evans, 2013) examining the functions and use of English, Cantonese, Putonghua on the work floor in the Hong Kong financial sector will be reported on. Chew’s (2005) objective is fourfold. His primary goal is to determine what proportion of the daily tasks performed by bank entrants is undertaken in English or in Cantonese. Furthermore, he examines which English skills (speaking, listening, writing
Introduction Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, named Hong Kong, similar to Cantonese pronunciation of incense and port. Hong Kong, therefore, means port of incense. Hong Kong as the Autonomous territories, located in the south-east of People’s Republic of China and occupied 2,755 km2 . English and Chinese are the official languages of Hong Kong. According to the 2016 Population By-census conducted by the Census and Statistic Department, among 7.34 million population, 92 percentage is Chinese
teaching in primary schools in Hong Kong where the articles and references are mainly focusing on the influence to higher education. This essay is attempted to explore the relationship between globalization and primary school education in Hong Kong. The first part will discuss various definitions of globalization of different scholars views. The second part of the essay will be concentrate to discuss the pros and cons of how globalization affects teaching in Hong Kong. It will then be followed by a
The special historic and social-economic background of Hong Kong forms its own identity, which is different from other regions like mainland China, and makes it a specific imagined community, which is accord with Benedict Anderson’s theory of imagined community. Whereas, it is under discussion whether since the reunification in 1997, Hong Kong has been gradually transformed into a part of China in terms of culture and identity and, thus, will no longer be a separated imagined community in the future
When Hong Kong was returned to China on 1st July 1991, she was renamed Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. A place where the eastern culture meets the west, Hong Kong is a synergy of ethnicity and foreign practice. Under the principle of 'one country, two systems', which gives the city a high level of autonomy, Hong Kong government is responsible for its own functionality such as its own legal system, police force, customs and immigrations policies, which
pressure to primary school students. But the government insists to have TSA for both primary school and secondary school students because it can provide schools with date of performances of students in Chinese Language, English Language and Mathematics at the end of Key Stage 1-3 (Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority, 2004). It raises the concerns about this issue. Therefore, the pros and cons of Territory-Wide System Assessment (TSA) will be introduced in the essay so as to see whether
between Hong Kong and China Shum Ho Ching, Lo Kam Tim October 3rd, 2017 City University of Hong Kong LT1101 Amazing Things about Language Instructed by Mr. Kenneth Au Abstract The aim of this study is to compare the translation of the non-Chinese movie titles between Hong Kong and China as a means to contrast the culture of language use of the said regions. This article looks at the differences between the translation of non-Chinese movie titles from Hong Kong and China
at west of Hong Kong while southwest of Guangzhou. The popular entertainment place in Macau is the casino. Almost every tourist visit there is because of the casino. In between, Macau is a region that has a lot of interesting social culture should be visit except the gambling purpose. Culture of Macau is origin part of the Chinese culture, but unfortunately from mid-16th century to 1999, Macau has long been the Portuguese colonial. (Anon., 2015) So until nowadays, all those language, food, religion
of the defining buzzwords of our time--a term that describes a variety of complex economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental forces that are rapidly altering our experience of the world (Google Books, 2016). In clear, accessible language, Manfred B. Steger goes beyond a narrow economic focus to cover all the major causes and consequences of globalization as well as the hotly contested question of whether globalization is, ultimately, a good or a bad thing (Google Books, 2016). This
Pacific Railway, Chinese people were granted Canadian citizenship, meaning they can also bring their families from China to Canada. The immigrants that came from China mainly resided in Hong Kong prior moving to Canada, as many Chinese people were not allowed to leave China because of the communist Chinese regime. Hong Kong was under different circumstances as they were not under Chinese rule. The employment