Hi, everyone.
As I am preparing for my coming ielts, I'd think to invite someone to give a grading to my writing (task2). My composition is as follows.
<<Declining English standard in Hong Kong>>
Surfing though the Internet, it is by no mean difficult to google numerous discussions about the fact that English standard in the territory is falling. In the following essay, I tend to explore the reasons for this issue along with possible solutions to it.
Firstly, one of the reasons is that our English teachers' standard is in decline. From newspaper and TV news we know that almost half the local English teachers who took the English assessment test failed. This definitely undermines the teaching quality because they even cannot manage the language well, not to mention what they can teach our next generation.
Another major contributing factor is lack of time. While people of previous generations had less entertainment, these days we have more and more interesting things to do after school or work, ranging from watching TV, playing computer games to learning ballet, yoga and even skiing for the affluent. These activity simply distract us from practical subjects, like English.
In order to solve the issue, it is my believe that the government has a pivotal role to play. For one thing, the government should boost the standard our English teachers by providing them with more supporting course and materials. Admittedly, the teachers nowadays are too busy to polish their English while working, this measure, however, at least can give them an alternative way to consider during their leisure time. Further and even more importantly, the government can promote more interactive English campaigns, emphasizing learning English is not such boring and using it in daily life is not insurmountable.
By way of conclusion, it is clear that, we cannot stem the tide of decreasing English standard in the short term. However, I believe that the steps mentioned above would be helpful.