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Title Quadrilingual education in Singapore : pedagogical innovation in language education / Rita Elaine Silver, Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, editors
Published Singapore : Springer, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Springer education innovation book series, 2211-4882
Springer education innovation book series. 2211-4882
Contents Introduction -- Chapter 1 Overarching themes, bilingual dreams and multilingual landscapes: Quadrilingual education in Singapore -- Section 1: Transitions -- Chapter 2 Transmission and development of literacy values and practices: An ethnographic study of a Malay family in Singapore -- Chapter 3 "I believe, therefore I practice": Teachers' beliefs on literacy acquisition and their classroom practices -- Chapter 4 Commentary on 'Transitions' -- Section 2: Competencies -- Chapter 5 A reading profile of Singapore primary school students and implications for reading pedagogy -- Chapter 6 Morphological awareness and reading development in bilingual English-Chinese children in Singapore -- Chapter 7 Taking stock of the effects of strategies-based instruction on writing in Chinese and English in Singapore primary classrooms -- Chapter 8 Commentary on 'Competencies' -- Section 3: Practices -- Chapter 9 Student engagement in reading -- Chapter 10 Distinctiveness and uniformity: Teaching language in Singapore primary grades 1 & 2 -- Chapter 11 Cultural representation in Teachers' talk: A functional analysis of Singapore's Chinese classroom discourse -- Chapter 12 Morphological teaching and Singaporean children's English word learning -- Chapter 13 Commentary on 'Practices' -- Section 4: Reforms -- Chapter 14 Use and impact of spoken Tamil in the early Tamil classrooms -- Chapter 15 Inculcation of Malay values and culture in language pedagogy in Singapore -- Chapter 16 Coding and comparing pedagogic features of teaching practices: What happens in Chinese language classes in Singapore's primary school? -- Chapter 17 Teaching Chinese to English-speaking Bilinguals -- Chapter 18 Commentary on 'Reforms' -- Conclusion -- Chapter 19 Final words: A reflective synthesis
Summary Annotation Exploring Singapore's language education system, this book brings together articles on each of the four languages - English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil - as well as articles that examine more than one language. It highlights past successes, current concerns and future directions for language education
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 28, 2016)
Subject Language and education -- Singapore
Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)
Curriculum planning & development.
Literacy.
Teaching skills & techniques.
Educational strategies & policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Language and education
Singapore
Form Electronic book
Author Silver, Rita, editor.
Bokhorst-Heng, W. D. (Wendy Diana), 1962- editor.
ISBN 9789812879677
9812879676
981287965X
9789812879653