TOPIC: Mother tongue
Making Malay Meaningful for Students
Issue 20 Sep / Oct 2009Step into Mr Aidil Subhan’s classroom and you may see pupils trying to figure out …
Mastering the Mother Tongue
Issue 19 Jul / Aug 2009It is difficult enough to learn a language that one hardly speaks at home. It …
Battle of the Tongues
Issue 16 Jan / Feb 2009Mandarin, Malay and Tamil: in Singapore, these are considered the official “mother tongue” languages. However, …
Figures of Speech
Issue 11 Mar 2008In 2005, CRPP began the first massive study on the language use, proficiency and identity …
Something Good from Something New
Issue 9 Oct 2007Chinese teachers from Compassvale Secondary School step out of their comfort zone in order to …
Code-switching in the Classroom: A Taboo Norm
Issue 9 Oct 2007“Do not speak English during Mandarin lesson!” How many times have we chided our students …
An Introduction to The Sociolinguistic Survey of Singapore
Issue 2 Nov 2005The Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP) has undertaken a large-scale language survey. …
Tamil Grammar Instruction in Singapore Schools: Implications for Language Pedagogy
Issue 2 Nov 2005Although Tamil is one of the four official languages in Singapore and is part of …
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