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Teaching Chinese language in Singapore = retrospect and challenges /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Teaching Chinese language in Singapore/ edited by Kaycheng Soh.
Reminder of title:	retrospect and challenges /
other author:	Soh, Kaycheng.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Singapore : : 2016.,
Description:	xiii, 193 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Chinese language - Study and teaching - Singapore. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0123-9
ISBN:	9789811001239

Teaching Chinese language in Singapore = retrospect and challenges /
Teaching Chinese language in Singaporeretrospect and challenges /[electronic resource] :edited by Kaycheng Soh. - Singapore :Springer Singapore :2016. - xiii, 193 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9789811001239

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-10-0123-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

569128
Chinese language
--Study and teaching--Singapore.

LC Class. No.: PL1068.S5 / T43 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 495.107105957

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