Bilingualism has long been the cornerstone of Singapore’s education system, but knowledge of other countries’ teachings on bilingualism is limited. To broaden their perspectives on bilingualism, four student teachers and their lecturers embarked on an educational visit to Hawaii in October 2018. As part of an NIE Malay language course on Bilingual learners and Bilingual education, they experienced a Hawaiian language revitalization programme which examined the societal, political and historical contexts that were important to the educational issues in multilingual societies. The four student teachers reflect on their visits to the Nawahi Lab Public Charter school, the College of Hawaiian Language of the University of Hawaii at Hilo and two museums in Hawaii.

(From left to right) Filzah, Syahiratul, Raudah and Ardillah