[PSLE MT] PSLE less weightage in Chinese / Mother Tongue
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Lucky:
u are not updatedI guess alot of times why students are put off by Chinese is due to the high number of strokes involved in the Chinese character.
For those who do not read often, they will find it a stumbling block to ready even one passage cos if you do not know a character and there is no hanyu pinyin, you are sort of stuck.
Whereas for English, even if you do not know how to read a particular word, you can use phonics to sort of decifer the word and guess it's meaning.
Thus, emphasis must be given to Chinese at even a younger age than English. Let the children know as many Chinese characters as possible so that they find reading Chinese stories enjoyable.
hanyu pinyin is all over the place these days and they even allow hanyu pinyin to mix in the chinese writings. in other words, the chn standard is already lowered until very low liao -
tamarind:
the basics of the chinese word characters are usually & mostly made up of component parts each has a meaning and making up the word meaning with the composite meanings of the parts
I have never learned Chinese by remembering the individual strokes. I take a photograph of each word and stores it in my brain. When I need to read or write a Chinese word, I just pull out the photograph from the \"database\" in my brain.
Actually many young kids have learned to read English by sight words. That is, they don't know any phonics, but they are still able to remember how to read hundreds of English words. If you ask them to spell the word, they don't know. But if you show them the English word, they can read it. For example, the word \"dog\". They remember the shape of the word, the \"g\" looks like the dog's tail, so they know how to read it. They have actually taken a photograph of the English word and store it in their brains. They don't remember the individual letters. This should be the method used to learn Chinese. (Though phonics is the more efficient way to learn English)
Those who think that a child should learn Chinese by memorizing the individual strokes are using the wrong methods.
I believe that the large majority of kids age 6 and below have the ability to learn both English and Chinese words by sight very quickly. But as they grow older, they slowly lose this ability.
kids given right approach will be interested to find out more and learn more and build interest in the language from there
there is a kindergarten in town with chinese teachers who do that from K1 onward, rather effective; but alas the environment in SG does not cultivate this kind of teachers in numbers -
我国出了首位“影响世界华人”的青年
...想拥有007占士邦在电影中使用的多点触控式电脑？在中国成都国际学校求学的17岁土生土长新加坡人林晨阳与两名同学就很想要一个。当他们发现类似的电脑售价为1万美元（约1万4000新元）之后，便尝试自己动手制造一个。 可谓青出于蓝胜于蓝，三人花了半年时间设计出的“启发多触式界面数据传输”系统，不但比微软出售的还来得便宜，也更小巧轻便，功能更多样化。 这个系统不但让三人赢得全球青少年科学大奖，还获凤凰卫视等十多家华文媒体评选为本年度最受瞩目的华人精英之一。 …三人将获颁2009-2010影响世界华人盛典“希望之星”奖项，而林晨阳则是首位获选为“影响世界华人”的新加坡人。 与2009年诺贝尔物理学奖得主高锟等同台。
长得斯文帅气、却谦虚低调的林晨阳接受本报访问时说：“如果不是到了中国，我不会有今天的机会和成就。在中国的国际学校求学，让我有机会追求我的兴趣和真正发挥我的所长。与来自不同国家的朋友交往也扩大了我的视野。而参与这项比赛让我体会到书本上学的理论不足以让你取得成功，而是要经过无数次的尝试和灵活思考。”
林晨阳与两名同学研发的“启发多触式界面数据传输”系统，类似于微软耗费多年开发研究的多点触控式电脑“surface”，也就是好莱坞大片《007量子危机》中特工占士邦（James Bond）曾经使用过的、那种充满未来感的神奇电脑桌。
虽然与一般新加坡孩子一样，英语比华语说得好，但林晨阳笑着说：“我会预先做好准备，让全世界知道新加坡人的华语其实没有他们想象中差！” -
林晨阳, a teenager, so 有志气.....
惭愧啊.....
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they should reduce the weeightage for english instead
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I think the government is trying too hard to please all parties. Why not just make one of those top secondary schools ignore the Chinese grades ? For example, NUS High School should take in students who are very good in English, Maths and Science, and ignore their grades for Chinese. Then all those who are not good in Chinese can go to NUS High School, while the rest of the top schools still take in students who are good in 2 languages. Then those who complain have no reason to migrate.
It is not possible to please every one. The only way is to give everyone a freedom of choice. Since some people do not think that Chinese is important, then they don’t need to study so hard for Chinese, it is their choice and we should not not waste time trying to convince them. -
verykiasu2010:
That's what I've been trying to do w/ my DD. Since one of her enrichment class teachers introduced word recognition by radicals, her ability in recognizing characters jumped sharply. e.g. for the word 晴, the left side reprensents the meaning while the right part represents the sound. Then we'll go through the dictionary together to find out other words w/ the same radicals. That's how we make learning (and teaching) Chinese more interesting.
the basics of the chinese word characters are usually & mostly made up of component parts each has a meaning and making up the word meaning with the composite meanings of the partstamarind:
I have never learned Chinese by remembering the individual strokes. I take a photograph of each word and stores it in my brain. When I need to read or write a Chinese word, I just pull out the photograph from the \"database\" in my brain.
Actually many young kids have learned to read English by sight words. That is, they don't know any phonics, but they are still able to remember how to read hundreds of English words. If you ask them to spell the word, they don't know. But if you show them the English word, they can read it. For example, the word \"dog\". They remember the shape of the word, the \"g\" looks like the dog's tail, so they know how to read it. They have actually taken a photograph of the English word and store it in their brains. They don't remember the individual letters. This should be the method used to learn Chinese. (Though phonics is the more efficient way to learn English)
Those who think that a child should learn Chinese by memorizing the individual strokes are using the wrong methods.
I believe that the large majority of kids age 6 and below have the ability to learn both English and Chinese words by sight very quickly. But as they grow older, they slowly lose this ability.
kids given right approach will be interested to find out more and learn more and build interest in the language from there
there is a kindergarten in town with chinese teachers who do that from K1 onward, rather effective; but alas the environment in SG does not cultivate this kind of teachers in numbers
I just ordered 四五快读 recommended by tamarind which is just what I need to teach my kids Chinese at home in a systematic way. I'm looking forward to start this Chinese \"I can read\" program w/ my kids soon. Thanks tamarind for introducing these books to us :celebrate: -
minnie2004:
minnie2004,
That's what I've been trying to do w/ my DD. Since one of her enrichment class teachers introduced word recognition by radicals, her ability in recognizing characters jumped sharply. e.g. for the word 晴, the left side reprensents the meaning while the right part represents the sound. Then we'll go through the dictionary together to find out other words w/ the same radicals. That's how we make learning (and teaching) Chinese more interesting.
I just ordered 四五快读 recommended by tamarind which is just what I need to teach my kids Chinese at home in a systematic way. I'm looking forward to start this Chinese \"I can read\" program w/ my kids soon. Thanks tamarind for introducing these books to us :celebrate:
You are welcome
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tamarind:
I think the government is trying too hard to please all parties. Why not just make one of those top secondary schools ignore the Chinese grades ? For example, NUS High School should take in students who are very good in English, Maths and Science, and ignore their grades for Chinese. Then all those who are not good in Chinese can go to NUS High School, while the rest of the top schools still take in students who are good in 2 languages. Then those who complain have no reason to migrate.
It is not possible to please every one. The only way is to give everyone a freedom of choice. Since some people do not think that Chinese is important, then they don't need to study so hard for Chinese, it is their choice and we should not not waste time trying to convince them.
NUS High already take in students who are good in EMS.
The camp pro MT reduce weightage are those who want to go to RI/RGS. Although I do not have statistics to back my claim. -
caroline3sg:
My goodness. These people are asking for too much !!! Isn't NUS High School prestigious enough ?tamarind:
I think the government is trying too hard to please all parties. Why not just make one of those top secondary schools ignore the Chinese grades ? For example, NUS High School should take in students who are very good in English, Maths and Science, and ignore their grades for Chinese. Then all those who are not good in Chinese can go to NUS High School, while the rest of the top schools still take in students who are good in 2 languages. Then those who complain have no reason to migrate.
It is not possible to please every one. The only way is to give everyone a freedom of choice. Since some people do not think that Chinese is important, then they don't need to study so hard for Chinese, it is their choice and we should not not waste time trying to convince them.
NUS High already take in students who are good in EMS.
The camp pro MT reduce weightage are those who want to go to RI/RGS. Although I do not have statistics to back my claim.
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