SINGAPORE - At the start of each year, pre-school teacher Nazreen Banu Surali Habeeb Mohamed is faced with the challenge of getting new pre-school pupils to reply to her in their mother tongue, Tamil. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Said Mr Chan:"Such activities help students to widen their vocabulary of common terms used in our mother tongue languages, rather than the common approach of replacing words from other languages when they cannot find the right words for them."
Chinese language teacher Ji Hong said parents often tell her they struggle to speak Mandarin at home as they are not good at it. Chinese teacher Ji Hong was among 14 recipients of the Outstanding Pre-School Mother Tongue Language Teacher Award. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO PCF Sparkletots pre-school teacher Siti Hasniza Hassan, 39, said she welcomes pupils speaking their thoughts in English first, before she translates them into Malay.