[PSLE MT] PSLE less weightage in Chinese / Mother Tongue

[BusyB]

I thot there was a time with the govt pushes for "Bilingualism" - being fluent in both English and Chinese is Singapore’s strength in having a play in both the West and East.


Now, this talk about lowering the weightage of Chinese, doesn’t it undermines this bilingualism push?

My friend from India was commenting that he didn’t quite understand the fuss of learning Chinese. In India, they have the national Indian language of Hindi. In addition, they also have other languages used at other parts of India (just like our Chinese dialects) and most of them are fluent in 1 or more of these as well. No one objected to learning both English and Hindi and …So, what is the issue of learning 2 languages?

[MMM]

I just don’t understand. If we can do it during our era, why can’t our kids do it now??? I recalled how i struggled with EL for so many years of my life.


It has been "proven" that if the kids are expose/ given help to learning CL early eg during pre-school, their chance of success of doing well in the language is high. This also applies to 100% EL speaking family.

I’ve a filippino friend who just put her dd in a Spore primary school for P1 and doing CL. She has been educated in Philippines all this while. Guess what… she was nominated to perform CL recitation for her class and she won.

[daisyt]

phankao:

I don't want that to happen, bc my p5 boy is better in chinese! And he is not even in that \"certain group of non-singaporean\" nor \"singaporean import\". He's a true-blooded singaporean, born here, and to an English-speaking family background.

My dd too. Truely Singaporean, English speaking at home, like chinese, good (i wont say excellent) in both eng & chinese. I give credits to her school teachers. It also takes quite a bit fair of effort from hubby, my mum and me throughout these years to cultivate her interest in chinese. I am sure all other family can achieve that too.

[verykiasu2010]

need to combine some effort to present our views to the MOE on Chn ? I know some will shoot me down now …lol

[peterch]

OMG..... I reside to Singapore as I want my children to have better education especially for CL. :? We even asked help from a great private tutor and thank God, my children are improving so much within these 4 months. They are striving to be move to a better MT class in their school next term.

[tankee]

verykiasu2010:

need to combine some effort to present our views to the MOE on Chn ? I know some will shoot me down now .....lol

send the link of this thread to PAP feedback?

[verykiasu2010]

peterch:

OMG..... I reside to Singapore as I want my children to have better education especially for CL. :? We even asked help from a great private tutor and thank God, my children are improving so much within these 4 months. They are striving to be move to a better MT class in their school next term.

hohoho, tell that to Jim Roger ......omg, should have stayed in Beijing ?

[cascada]

verykiasu2010:

need to combine some effort to present our views to the MOE on Chn ? I know some will shoot me down now .....lol

I support you, verykiasu2010.

If they reduced the weightage to 25%, think the students weak in CL will get weaker cos they will think 'what the h**k, why must improve since not so important anymore'.

[phankao]

daisyt:

phankao:

I don't want that to happen, bc my p5 boy is better in chinese! And he is not even in that \"certain group of non-singaporean\" nor \"singaporean import\". He's a true-blooded singaporean, born here, and to an English-speaking family background.

My dd too. Truely Singaporean, English speaking at home, like chinese, good (i wont say excellent) in both eng & chinese. I give credits to her school teachers. It also takes quite a bit fair of effort from hubby, my mum and me throughout these years to cultivate her interest in chinese. I am sure all other family can achieve that too.

We didn't really cultivate it bc we are poor in chinese ourselves, and dh doesn't even know much chinese.

This boy is actually poorer in english , unlike your dd. He started reading firstly in chinese too when he was 4yo.

[verykiasu2010]

cascada:

verykiasu2010:

need to combine some effort to present our views to the MOE on Chn ? I know some will shoot me down now .....lol

I support you, verykiasu2010.

If they reduced the weightage to 25%, think the students weak in CL will get weaker cos they will think 'what the h**k, why must improve since not so important anymore'.

the existing weighting is 25%.

if they reduce it, it will be less than 25%