CLIL Research in Hong Kong.

February 2017 saw colleague, Tony Ryan and I in Hong Kong for activities
connected with our Kaken CLIL project.

On 19th February, we met three former students from Hong Kong Institute
of Education (now The Education University of Hong Kong). They are now
respectively teaching English, Chinese (Cantonese and Putongwua) and
Special Needs at elementary school. We found out that at their regular
public (state) schools, English remains a self-contained subject, with no
CLIL element.

However, on 20th February, we had made an arrangement to see three
classes at the Education University of Hong Kong's affiliated Jockey Club
Primary (Elementary) School. They were 3rd year and 1st Year Physical Education
courses, where the focus was respectively on using a racquet and shuttlecock
successfully, and on bouncing a basketball. Instructions were given almost
totally in English. The final class we saw was a 6th year Visual Arts course.
The content was challenging, but again was given in English by the teacher.

Finally, on 21st February, we visited the Hong Kong Educational Resources
Centre at Kowloon Tong. We were very impressed by the facilities, looked
through materials, some of which we purchased, including this book put
together by teachers at the Pentecostal Lam Hon Kwong School:


and also had a chance to see a great exhibition of school students' artwork.

Find out about our visit to a workshop on CLIL at Meijo University.