ANALYZING THE LANGUAGE PROBLEM DISCOURSES IN HONG-KONG - HOW OFFICIAL, ACADEMIC, AND MEDIA DISCOURSES CONSTRUCT AND PERPETUATE DOMINANT MODELS OF LANGUAGE, LEARNING, AND EDUCATION

In this paper, I analyze the recent official, academic, and media disc ourses in Hong Kong to examine how the 'language problem' has been for mulated and represented, and to expose and problematize the models of language, learning, and education that are being imposed by these publ ic discourses. I seek to examine the role these discourses play in pro ducing and perpetuating false consciousness or popular taken-for-grant ed notions about language and language learning among Hong Kong people . I conclude with a proposal of alternative models to the dominant one s.