Teaching Chinese language in Singapore : retrospect and challenges / Kaycheng Soh, editor.
Soh, Kaycheng.
2016
LC8-6691
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Title Teaching Chinese language in Singapore : retrospect and challenges / Kaycheng Soh, editor.
ISBN 9789811001215
9811001219
9789811001239 (e-book)
9811001235 (e-book)
Publication Details [New York, New York] : Springer, [2016]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Call Number LC8-6691
Dewey Decimal Classification 370
Summary This collection of articles begins with an overview of the Reviews from past decades, then goes on to describe the current practices, and foretells the possible future developments. This is followed by a discussion of the use of ICT and surveys on several professional aspects of teaching, including teachers’ training needs and perception of student difficulties, assessment literacy, familiarity and use of language teaching strategies, as well as perceived social status and job satisfaction. The book ends with an extensive discussion of bilingualism and code-switching as well as the teaching of Chinese culture in Singapore schools. The comprehensive coverage provides a milestone in Chinese Language teaching in the multi-lingual context of Singapore.
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Preface
Part I: Policy and Curriculum
Chapter 1 The Past: A Review of Five Reviews
Chapter 2 The Present: An Overview of Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore
Chapter 3 The Future: New Directions of Singapore Chinese Language Teaching
Part II: Practitioners' Potential and Challenges
Chapter 4 Using ICT in Teaching Chinese Language: Practices and Challenges
Chapter 5 Chinese Language Teachers' Perception of Training Needs and Perceived Student Difficulties
Chapter 6 Assessment Literacy of Chinese Language Teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools
Chapter 7 Familiarity and Use of Language Teaching Strategies among Chinese Language Teachers
Chapter 8 Singaporean Chinese Language Teachers' Perception of Social Status and Job Satisfaction
Part III: Learners' Language Ability and Its Challenges
Chapter 9 An Issue in Bilingualism: English-Chinese Code-switching Past and Present
Chapter 10 Teaching Chinese Culture in Singapore Schools
Chapter 11 Epilogue.

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