"Apart from the pedagogical question of how to teach 'biliteracy and trilingualism,' something we need to get clear today is whether the low standard of English among Hong Kong schoolchildren is something that comes about in primary school or in secondary school, and whether it is because our English teachers are not up to the job, or because of the use of mixed code in the classroom.
香港媒體上也有人提出這種觀點。「現在我們要弄清楚的，除了『兩文三語』等學習層次的問題外，香港學生的英語程度不好，是在小學、還是中學階段形成，是英語師資不佳，還是中英混雜學習的結果？