This paper examines 138 news articles published in
Hong Kong print media on Putonghua as a medium of
instruction (PMI) for teaching Chinese during a one-year
period. Informed by theories of framing and the multiple
streams approach (MSA), the study investigated the local
Chinese print media’s participation in the PMI policy process.
Detailed content analysis revealed how the press discursively
impeded policy outputs with regard to PMI inHong Kong. The
results remind policy entrepreneurs of the importance of
framing and counter-framing. More studies from the policy
process perspective are needed to explore the ways in which
stakeholders, policy entrepreneurs and policy makers engage
with themassmedia in the educational language policy debate

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• Keeping the Policy Window Closed: Framing Putonghua as a Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong