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APCLC Research Fellow Dr. Choi Taehee won General Research Fund (GRF) Grant

APCLC Research Fellow Dr. Choi Taehee won General Research Fund (GRF) of HK$1,143,854, funded by Research Grants Council, the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The research grant is for a 36-month study entitled "New Education Privatisation (NEP) in English Education for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL): A Four-nation Comparative Study”. The study aims to:

	(1)	Identify ideas and material and structural conditions at the supra-governmental, national and local levels, which enable and shape the trajectories and strategies of NEP in each national case and in individual schools, specifically in ESOL;
	(2)	Investigate the impact of NEP in contemporary public schooling and on teachers’ practices, and their professionalism, particularly in ESOL;
	(3)	Investigate ways to ensure the quality and equity of ESOL provision under NEP; and
	(4)	Extend the theorisation of NEP in ESOL by investigating its appropriate use in public school systems to ensure quality education for all.

For more information about the study, please visit:
http://www.eduhk.hk/apclc/research_52.html .