Language attitudes of the first post-colonial generation in Hong Kong secondary schools Issues in gender, medium of instruction, social class and cultural identity

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Discussion of language attitudes has a long history, but the seemingly old topic has never failed to catch the attention of scholars over the past decades.Language attitudes are ever changing with time and socio-political environment, and it is this fluid nature of language attitudes that gives new significance to the topic when Hong Kong enters a new post-colonial era.Since the change of sovereignty in 1997 from Britain to China, Hong Kong has undergone great political, socio-economic and educational changes.The new post-colonial context might have great impacts on students, including their attitudes towards Cantonese, English and Putonghua, which are the three main spoken varieties advocated by the new government in its 'Biliterate and Trilingual' policy declared shortly after the political handover.Among all students, a unique group was that who began their secondary education in 1998 since they were brought up amidst all the changes that had taken place after the change of sovereig

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