HKLNA Project - Filling the Near Native Speaker Gap (Table)

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English or languish - Probing the ramifications
of Hong Kong's language policy

Quality Assessment
Section four

Language and Society

Hong Kong's Neighbors
Filling the Near Native Speaker Gap

Table 42 - Number of years required to supply Hong Kong with English speakers with varying amounts of overseas experience at the current level of overseas enrolment and number of claims with regard to English as usual language spoken in Hong Kong - 2001 Census. graph 76 \| collection index (tables)
Number of years overseas (1)	Number of exits or entries per year (2)	Number of years required to fill the gap (3)

1	32,511	6.6
2	162,55.5	13.2
3	10,837	19.9
4	8,127.75	26.5
5	6,502.2	33.1
6	5,418.5	39.7
Note 1: In 2001 there were 32,511 Hong Kongers studying abroad in major overseas English speaking countries. During the same year 215,197 Hong Kongers claimed English as their usual language.
Note 2: Column one shows the average number of years that Hong Kongers might spend overseas studying in a major English speaking country.
Note 3: Column two shows the number of Hong Kongers that must exit and return each year so that each of the 32,511 overseas Hong Kong students might spend the number of years overseas indicated in column one.
Note 4: Column three shows the number of years of exit and entry required to insure that each of the 215,197 Hong Kongers who claimed English as their usual language in 2001 have the number of years of overseas study experience indicated in column one. Column three is obtained by dividing column two into 215,197.
Source 1: EARTH. HKLNA-Project Proposal. Understanding the nature, cause, magnitude, and direction of English language attrition in Hong Kong society - Measurement and assessment. [online document - pdf 1.4 MB] Appendix I, Figure 10 - Overseas enrolment 1990 to 2001, p. 74.
Source 2: Multiplying 6,724,900 Hong Kong residents in 2001 by the proportion of Hong Kongers who claimed English as their usual language in the same year yields 215,197 English speakers. See HKLNA-Project. Quality Assessment. Language as Tool. Footnote #20 (new window) and Data Collection. Graph 52 (new window).

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