{"id":37,"date":"2004-12-14T22:27:27","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T14:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=37"},"modified":"2005-09-16T22:26:05","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T14:26:05","slug":"hk-putonghua-and-pinyin-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2004\/hk-putonghua-and-pinyin-test\/","title":{"rendered":"HK Putonghua and Pinyin test"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Examinations &#038; Assessment Authority released today the results of the September Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers. Some 29% of English teachers have acquired the basic requirement in writing, with 43% and 64% of candidates attaining the basic requirement in English speaking and listening.<\/p>\n<p>For Putonghua papers, 43% of teacher candidates attained the basic requirement in listening and recognition, 63% in Pinyin and 42% in speaking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that people do so much better in Pinyin than in not only listening and recognition but also speaking. Moreover, compare those with the figures for English. Hmm. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/category\/atschool\/041214\/html\/041214en02002.htm\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Examinations &#038; Assessment Authority released today the results of the September Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers. Some 29% of English teachers have acquired the basic requirement in writing, with 43% and 64% of candidates attaining the basic requirement in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2004\/hk-putonghua-and-pinyin-test\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,41,8,32,20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-english","category-hong-kong","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-romanization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}