嚮香港考口語當然非常有用啦！香港既教育同外國或者應該話同國際學校好唔同，因為國際學校會常常鼓勵學生多發言，由小學開始已經要show and tell，到高小至中學係常常要做presentation，甚至要嚮課堂度同同學討論/辯論，訓練表達能力同學習摘取對方既論點再去同別人分析及反駁以至去說服別人，呢d已經嚮日常培養到。反觀香港既教育始終嚮培育學生嚮語言表達同辯論既能力果度太少啦，所以如果有口語考試的話，學生點都要去學吓點樣提升自己既語言能力。正如訪問裡面導師所講，現今社會年輕人對電腦對電話根本就已經無乜用說話同人溝通既機會，如果連呢個訓練都無埋，咁將來點嚮社會上表達自己見解，同人溝通呢？
Hi, It is ok to call!!It is ok to talk!!If bad things happen, it happens. It is not due to talking, on the phone or not. Continue communicating. Miss you all, Hong Kongers.
Do you know how many students did not get into uni in the past because they failed Chinese? Especially Chinese speaking test, it is not an individual work/ task and it is affected various factors. Imagine one of the students just keeps talking during the group discussion and does not give others a chance to speak, all the other students will automatically get a low mark for sure no matter how hard they have tried...and it is not fair... You could argue that it is a rare case, however, is that mean we should just sacrifice those 10 or 100 students? They will get 1 in the speaking test and they will be disadvantaged in getting into uni. Therefore, failing or acing the Chinese speaking test doesn't 100 reflect one's ability in communication or the ability to speak in Chinese...it could just be luck...depending on whether you get into a nice group or a horrible group... Overall, I don't think cancelling Chinese speaking exam means students won't be able to learn what is being taught already, rather, we should focus on IF it is a good idea to have it in HKDSE, an exam that decides if one student is suitable to be at uni... Frankly, they are using English at uni anyway, so what's is the point for those who are not majoring in Chinese to be really good at it other than wasting their valuable time to study what actually matter to them. Like for an engineering student, maths, physics, chemistry, biology etc...
By the way, the examinations of the speaking will cut, maybe more students will feel happy but in the long-run, I am afraid the basic communication will-be wear off. This is the most important things in the community since in my opinion, if the human will wear off the communicate, what is the respectively if I am robot? I strongly agree Mr. Chan (Chinese teacher of Beacon College) share "be a good man is more important than your mark" I know it just say he must choose marks or be a good man, he will choose Be a good man.
