Provision of Services on the Study of Using Assessment Data to Enhance Secondary Students' Reading Comprehension Skills and Motivation in Learning Literary Chinese (Quotation Ref: (38) EDB/EI/BCA/F&A/60/1/1(5))

This two-year project aims to 1) enhance students’ reading ability and motivation in learning Literary Chinese; 2) identify possible problems leading to the general weaknesses in Literary Chinese; 3) work with teachers in formulating interactional strategies and develop effective approaches on reading strategy instruction for learning Literacy Chinese for secondary schools; 4) develop assessment tool(s) to evaluate the effectiveness of students’ reading ability and motivation in Literary Chinese; 5) design and develop quality and need-focused web-based L/T support material for the secondary classroom in this study; 6) provide professional teacher training for secondary teachers in this study in adopting the suggested approaches to reading strategies and the need-focused learning and teaching materials in Literary Chinese; and 7) provide professional views and suggestions to EDB in promoting reading strategies in Literary Chinese in the secondary classroom based on the findings of this study.