PRESS RELEASES: 2009

Workplace English Campaign launches learning programme to support EAG

In support of the Hong Kong 2009 East Asian Games (EAG), the Workplace English Campaign (WEC) is launching a radio announcement in the public interest (API) and a series of radio and video programmes titled “Hong Kong Welcomes You” to encourage Hong Kong people to improve their English proficiency in order to welcome athletes and tourists to the EAG.

The radio API, which features artistes Ivana Wong and Eric Suen, will be broadcast on Chinese radio channels starting from tomorrow (October 12).

The radio and video series, produced by RTHK with sponsorship from the WEC, introduces some English phrases and vocabulary commonly used in receiving overseas visitors. 

Hosted by RTHK DJs Ms Gloria Lo and Melissa Cheung, Language Instructor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Ms Venny Lai and native English speaker Ms Laura Shepherd, the series will be rolled out in phases as follows:

-	Twenty episodes of two-minute radio segments will be broadcast on RTHK Radio 1 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., and 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., from Monday to Friday between October 26 and November 20;
-	Four episodes of half-hourly radio programmes, edited from the above radio segments, will be broadcast on RTHK Radio 1 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on every Sunday between November 22 and December 13;
-	Twenty episodes of one-minute videos will be broadcast on the Internet starting from November 22 with access through the WEC online self-learning platform at www.english.gov.hk/platform.

For more details of the radio and video programmes, please visit the WEC website at www.english.gov.hk.

Launched by the Government in 2000, WEC aims to enhance public awareness of the importance of having a good command of English in the workplace and to improve language skills among the working population in Hong Kong.

End/ Sunday, October 11, 2009

(Review radio API)