LD has approximately 400 students mainly from local primary, middle and high schools and some adults from the community in the Chutung area.

The main purpose of the LD is to provide opportunities for elementary and secondary school students to receive additional English language instruction, apart from their regular school, in the afternoon and evening.  Students are grouped by age and ability; in general, class size ranges between 5 students and 20 students. 

Most classes offered are for beginners and intermediate level students.  While one aim is to help prepare students for high school, university entrance or TOFEL exams, another goal is to develop students’ communicative skills in English.  There are also adult and pre-school classes for which the main goal is to develop their English conversational skills.

        The classroom instruction hours are usually 25 hours per week, plus one or two one-on-one tutorial students. Any extra hours will be paid additionally.  When the weekly teaching hours are fewer than the above mentioned, teachers still get full pay. Besides the teaching hours of classroom instruction, teachers should expect to spend an additional 15 hours per week at school working on preparation and marking, developing resources and materials, attending meetings, taking part in field-trips, etc.  Currently, the regular working hours are 1:00 to 9:30, Monday to Friday and teachers can take a lunch break during these hours.  Teachers are required to attend extra-curriculum activities which are usually held two or three times a year. 

Each teacher may expect to take a specific title, e.g., newsletter coordinator, curriculum-development coordinator, testing-development coordinator or material-development coordinator, to assist the school in developing a conducive learning system for students.