Comparing English Enrichment Programmes

[bumblebee35]

Hi ccgoh or anyone who has children at TAS,


How are the teachers like? What is their teaching style? Are they very strict? Are they like the Ang Mo kind (not strict but children love them) or like the more traditional teacher kind (strict but kids may not totally like them)?

My kids like the Ang Mo style but honestly sometimes I find they do not really take what the teacher says seriously and apply what they have learnt because they think everything is ‘fun’

[Herbie]

my son is in sec one thos year tt and i am wondering whether i shld send him to tian shia or han language… Any advise. Jiang is too chem for my son…

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[24hr-mum]

if ur son sch’s ch not so chim like jiang, ie u dont need jiang’s std to help ur son cope wf sch ch, then u can look at han or hua or tien hsia but chk the materials. i thot tien hsia dont do sec sch ch?

[Herbie]

hi 24hr mum


Thanks! I am not sure whether tien shia has MT for sec one. I have put my son at Hua before… he goes there like a routine exercise so we stopped and I put him at another centre but we quit cos the teachers were PRC and they talk very fast and my son does not understand and did not tell me… so after that he lost his interest…

The funny thing abt my son is… he can speak and communicate in chinese… just cannot remember the chinese words how to read and how to write…
and when he write compo… i want to faint cos he takes a long time to complete the task.


I need to check with my friend…

Tx.

[24hr-mum]

if u stay bishan, can explore hcl at st. 22. but all china pple too.

[24hr-mum]

hi ccgoh,


on that session where the child writes full compo for TAS, do they still cover other aspects eg compre, grammar etc for that session?

now it seems there are two compo teaching methodology in debate:
1) typical weekly compo writing, diff wk diff topics (will the child just write blindly without thinkg, going thru the motion only), vs
2) just learn the techniques each week, or learn write part of a compo every week, then write a full compo once a mth (the child gets to think and analyse how to write, but will once a mth practise for full compo be sufficient?)

other parents, any comments?

[E100]

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[averagejoe]

E100:

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[24hr-mum]

any testimonial on compo/compre results after attending tas?