Bokhorst-Heng, Wendy D.
Quadrilingual Education in Singapore
Part I. Introduction
1. Overarching Themes, Bilingual Dreams and Multilingual Landscapes: Quadrilingual Education in Singapore
Rita Elaine Silver, Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng
Part II. Transitions
2. Transmission and Development of Literacy Values and Practices: An Ethnographic Study of a Malay Family in Singapore
Mukhlis Abu Bakar
3. ‘I Believe, Therefore I Practice’: Teachers’ Beliefs on Literacy Acquisition and Their Classroom Practices
Norhaida Aman
4. Commentary on ‘Transitions’
Bob Perry
Part III. Competencies
5. A Reading Profile of Singapore Primary 1 Students and Implications for Reading Pedagogy
Chitra Shegar, Christopher S. Ward
6. Morphological Awareness and Reading Development in Bilingual English-Chinese Children in Singapore
Baoqi Sun, Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen
7. Taking Stock of the Effects of Strategies-Based Instruction on Writing in Chinese and English in Singapore Primary Classrooms
Lawrence Jun Zhang, Vahid Aryadoust, Donglan Zhang
8. Commentary on ‘Competencies’
Andy Kirkpatrick
Part IV. Practices
9. Student Engagement in Reading
Viniti Vaish
10. Distinctiveness and Uniformity: Teaching Language in Singapore Primary Grades 1 and 2
Rita Elaine Silver, Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen, Roksana Bibi Binte Abdullah, Seetha Lakshmi, Yanning Yang
11. Culture Representation in Teachers’ Talk: A Functional Analysis of Singapore’s Chinese Classroom Discourse
Yanning Yang
12. Morphological Teaching and Singaporean Children’s English Word Learning
Dongbo Zhang, Li Li
13. Commentary on ‘Practices’
Andy Hancock
Part V. Reforms
14. Use and Impact of Spoken Tamil in the Early Tamil Classrooms
Seetha Lakshmi
15. Inculcation of Malay Values and Culture in Language Pedagogy in Singapore
Roksana Bibi Binte Abdullah
16. Coding and Comparing Pedagogic Features of Teaching Practices: What Happens in Chinese Language Classes in Singapore’s Primary Schools?
Shouhui Zhao, Guowen Shang
17. Teaching Chinese to English-Speaking Bilinguals
Yeng Seng Goh, Seok Lai Lim
18. Commentary on ‘Reforms’
David Cassels Johnson
Part VI. Conclusion
19. Final Words: A Reflective Synthesis
Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, Rita Elaine Silver
Keywords: Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Language Education, Curriculum Studies, Literacy, Learning & Instruction
- Editor
- Bokhorst-Heng, Wendy D.
- Silver, Rita Elaine
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Series
- Education Innovation Series
- Page amount
- 12 pages
- Category
- Upbringing, Education
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9789812879677
- Printed ISBN
- 978-981-287-965-3