Special Interest Articles:
“Bilingual Education
for English and
“Mother Tongue”
in Singapore”
Individual Highlights:
News 1
English Courses 1 Activities 2 Special Article 3 Resources 4 Entertainments 5 Related Links 6 Upcoming … 6 Contacts 6
The Newsletter is a monthly publication that highlights news, activities, events, and relevant resources on multilingual education in the MEC at the ENU.
“5 English Language Courses”
for the ENU community have started from October
2017 to December 2017.
The responses for the courses were overwhelmed. Only limited places were available for first-come,
first-served. Total 295 participants including teachers, admin staffs, and
students are participating in the courses.
News
English Courses
23 Oct - 22 Dec 2017
“Learning English through Songs”
to ENU students in Intermediate and Upper
levels
- By Mr. Joseph Baez 40 students are participating in this
course.
“ENU English Club”
has been established in October 2017 by 15 ENU
students.
8 Nov - 25 Dec 2017
“English Language Course”
for the Teaching Staff to teach courses
in English
- By 4 English Instructors 60 teachers are participating in this course. With existing 142 multilingual teachers, 202 teachers will conduct their
courses in English by the end of May 2018.
2 Nov - 30 Nov 2017
“ENU Peer Tutoring English Program”
for ENU students in Beginner and Intermediate levels - By 5 ENU Students
35 students are participating in this
program.
7 Nov - 30 Nov 2017
“General English Speaking”
to all in the ENU in Beginner Level - By Ms. Yevgeniya Verba 22 participants consisting of teachers, admin staff members, and students are
participating in this course.
“ENU English Club”
has been established in October 2017 by 15 ENU students who are interested in
English.
Activities
For inquiry on
“ENU English Club”, please contact:
Orazbaeva Ayala
ayal.96@mail.ru / +77711664671
6 Nov - 29 Nov 2017
“Academic English”
for faculty members in Intermediate Level
- By foreign professors, Dr. Andrei Shenin and Dr. Punit Gaur 19 faculty members are participating in
this course.
The Club has started
“Peer Tutoring English Program”
for their peer students from 1 November 2017.
7 Student tutors have started teaching” English Speaking” to 4 groups of
peer students.
37 students are participating in this
program.
Singapore has three main ethnic groups: Chinese, Malays, and Indians and four official languages:
English, Mandarin Chinese, Malay and Tamil. The signage in this ethnically diverse country contains all four of these languages.
Language planning in Singapore is linked to economic development and nation building (Chua, 1995; Ho &
Alsagoff, 1998). Decisions about language policy, measures and application are made in the cabinet, parliament and relevant ministries (Kuo and Jernudd, 1994).
Bilingual education for “English” and “one other official language” has been promoted in Singapore to make English learning and teaching more effective, and to make Singapore more competitive in the world.
English is the main lingua franca used between the different ethnic groups in Singapore. It is a required
Bilingual Education for English and “Mother Tongue” in Singapore
Kim Hyo Young (Director)
Multilingual Education and Academic Resources Development Center, ENU
subject in school and virtually every Singaporean is fluent. As a result, English becomes the official
working language in Singapore (Bokhorst-Heng 1998).
In addition to English, students learn their “mother tongue” in school: Indian Singaporeans learn Tamil, Malays learn Malay, and Chinese learn Mandarin.
Learning of the mother tongue gives students their ethnic and cultural traditions avoiding the excesses of westernization and hopefully preventing
deculturalization (Gopinathan, 1998).
Bilingual education found its place in Singapore.
Singaporeans believe that speaking both English and mother tongue well would help their success in Singapore’s competitive school system and bring economic benefits in the form of higher-paying jobs.
Singapore’s success in bilingual education in the multicultural society can stand as an example for any society that experiments with bilingual education.
Reference
Wendy Diana Bokhorst-Heng, 1998. “Language and Imagining the Nation in Singapore”. University of Toronto
Chua, Beng Huat, 1995. “Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore”. Singapore: Singapore University Press
Gopinathan, S, Anne Pakir, Ho Wah Kam, and Vanithamani Saravanan, 1998. “Language, Society and Education in Singapore:
Issues and Trends”. Times Academic Press
Kuo, Eddie C. Y. and Jernudd, Bjorn, 1994. “Balancing Macro - and Micro – Sociolinguistic Perspectives in Language Management:
The Case of Singapore”. In: English and Language Planning: In South Eastern Asia Contribution (eds.), Thiru Khandia and John Kwan Terry. Singapore Times Academic Press, 70-71
IELTS Writing Task 1 #44
http://www.ielts-writing.info/index.php/academic/ielts-writing-task-1-44/
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The diagram below shows the number of landline telephones per 1000 people in different countries over a five-year period.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.
Write at least 150 words.
Resources
Model Answer:
The graph shows the number of telephones owned per thousand of the population in different countries over a five- year period. Overall, the number of phone owners per thousand of the population varied considerably.
However, numbers tended to fall in countries with the highest level of phone ownership, whereas numbers generally rose in countries
“Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.”
- Mother Teresa
“A different language is a different vision
of life.”
- Federico Fellini
which had fewer phone owners in 2000.
By far the highest level of phone ownership was in Singapore, where just under 430 people per thousand were owners in 2004. This figure is slightly lower than the 2000 figure of around 460 per thousand. In Brunei Darussalam the second highest levels of phone ownership were recorded, and
the numbers fluctuated around the 250 per thousand level across the five years.
Countries like Cambodia and Vietnam had much lower levels of phone ownership and these increased up to 2004, rather than decreasing.
In the remaining countries, the number of landline phone owners remained below the 100 per thousand level between 2000 and 2004.
(164 words)
Across Answers:
1) At 2) Before 3) Under 4) In 5) After 6) To 7) Below 8) Near 9) On 10) Across
Down Answers:
1) Than 2) Besides 3) Until 4) Above ` 5) Through 6) Around
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Answer:
“Education is the progressive realization of our
ignorance.”
- Albert Einstein
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