TEXTBOOK EVALUATION: A FRAMEWORK FOR …

TEXTBOOK evaluation : A FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING THE FITNESS OF THE HONG KONG NEW SECONDARY SCHOOL (NSS) CURRICULUM by Wong Pak Wing Lawrence Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in Teaching English as a Second Language Department of English City University of Hong Kong May 2011 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would first like to express sincere thanks to my thesis supervisor Dr Belinda Ho for her careful mentoring. She spent endless hours giving me professional advice and reading different draft versions of this thesis. This piece of work would have never come to its existence without her input and creative inspiration. Also, I would like to thank Dr Matthew Peacock for inspiring me to research on the area of TEXTBOOK evaluation . I would like to express my gratitude for his patience, guidance and inspiration.

1.1.2 Overview of the Textbook Situation in Hong Kong. Citing the work of Reynolds (1974), Fu (1975) suggested that Hong Kong was an extremely small market from the publisher’s point of view, as there was a small number of the total in-school population. Most of the textbook writers did not have full familiarity with the indigenous Cantonese

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