ABSTRACT
Hong Kong has a good reputation internationally as a successful commercial and financial center. English and Chinese are Hong Kong's two official languages. Because the majority of the population in Hong Kong is ethnic Chinese, the Cantonese dialect is 'the language of the home, the street and the entertainment media'. The author have portrayed English foreign language (EFL) teaching in Hong Kong by examining the history of EFL teaching, the structure of the English curriculum and through depicting his own history and development as an English language educator. Indeed, EFL teaching in Hong Kong is increasingly a challenge fraught with intractable problems. Declining English standards of students, falling English standards, and lack of training among English teachers, the controversial benchmarking test, education reforms that call for drastic restructuring of the curriculum, and mounting pressure faced by English professionals have meant that English language teaching (ELT) is becoming more and more taxing and demanding, especially for frontline educators.
