Parents the key to kids embracing their mother tongue? | Deep Dive (ft Tan Ee Ling, Hayati Abdullah) #CNA
Parents the key to kids embracing their mother tongue? | Deep Dive (ft Tan Ee Ling, Hayati Abdullah)
With English dominating daily life in Singapore, some parents say they lack the confidence or motivation to speak and teach their mother tongue at home. How can we help children appreciate and learn their mother tongue languages, and can we see them as more than just another school subject?
Steven Chia and Tiffany Ang sit down with Dr Tan Ee Ling, owner of Shiawase Books and Hayati Abdullah from NUSA Malay Language Tuition and Enrichment Centre on this week’s episode of Deep Dive.
01:58 Is learning mother tongue getting harder?
04:08 Speaking dual languages at home
08:34 Should we view mother tongue as a language or a subject?
09:58 How mother tongue can help you in other subjects
13:56 Should our mother tongue exams focus less on writing and more on speaking and reading?
16:00 What does a successful bilingual person educated in Singapore look like?
19:10 Learning one’s mother tongue is a lifelong journey
23:03 Meeting children where they are
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