Bringing About Change in Language Education

The chapters in this volume were selected from a larger collection of papers originally presented at the International Language in Education Conference held at the University of Hong Kong, 14-16 December 1994. A major thematic concern draws the chapters together and helps to define them as a coherent whole. This is the notion of change in language education. At present, within Hong Kong, and more generally throughout the Asia Pacific region, there are major changes proposed within the school and tertiary educational sectors. This imperative for change is being driven, among other things, by emerging economic realities, the development of competency based education, and the globalisation of communication resulting from the explosion in the use of the Internet.