Talk:Language education in Singapore

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Motivations for this page

Singapore has always had a reputation as a nation where a majority of her people are effectively bilingual. Many parents, especially those from the neighboring ASEAN countries, China and India, are sending their children to Singapore to pursue their education. It is thus interesting that Singapore is not at all mentioned in the Bilingual Education page. A further search on the Education in Singapore page reveals that the bilingual education policy is just a short section, without substantial information. The page Languages of Singapore presents also only a short section on bilingualism. More specifically, the abovementioned page is with regards to the entire language landscape of Singapore but not on the local education scene. Hence, this page was created out of the need to introduce and provide information on Singapore's language education to people who wants an overview of the general language landscape in Singapore.

Qkhuang1 (talk) 08:40, 17 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Good job on writing the article! I encourage you to add content to the articles you mentioned above, as well. You also might want to add something to language education by region. Your help would be very much appreciated! —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 06:25, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Editing & Enhancement
Greetings all,

A group of us from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) would like to further enhance this page as part of our project HG2052: Language, Tech and the Internet. We would like to further improve this page by including information on the Higher Mother Tongue education in Singapore as a separate section in this article. Higher Mother Tongue is synonymous with the language education landscape in the country. As such, we feel that it would be useful for it to be included to further enhance the existing page.

In addition, we would like to contribute to the existing article by improving and including more information to the existing content.

We hope that our contributions will make this article into a better one, benefitting more visitors to this page.

Thank you.

ATQ001 (talk) 09:36, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Brief Review
My students revised this page for a course (HG2052: Language, Technology and the Internet) and I am adding a couple of comments as part of the final review. Francis Bond (talk) 07:52, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Extremely comprehensive cover, well structured and clear.
 * marred by a few typos (most of which I fixed)
 * I am a little confused by "1967 	MOE accepted new Malay spelling system adopted by Malaysia and Indonesia in 1973" was time travel involved?
 * also this: Focuses on Imbuhan (affixes), proverbs and compre. I assumed it was comprehension and fixed it.
 * some of the links to seab.gov.sg are broken (I suspect they reshuffled them)
 * some of the links to journals go through the NTU proxy and are thus broken if you are not from NTU
 * if these are fixed I think it fulfils the GA criteria

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