Teaching of Chinese language in Singapore is an old topic. A few things have just occurred to me as I was reading PM's speech on the train yesterday. "PM Lee: To put it very simply, we are affirming our bilingualism policy. We have never wavered in this fundamental, but we have to update it and adapt our teaching and our CL system so as to respond to a dynamic situation and a varying range of student abilities and language backgrounds." Why do they need so many bilingual people? The very... read more
