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Singapore Centre for Chinese Language (SCCL) started its in-service training courses in June 2009. [5] It aims to enhance the teaching literacy, competency and professionalism of Chinese language teachers. To date, SCCL has provided training for more than 30,000 Chinese language teachers.
Non-Chinese language communities, principally the Malays and Tamils, have argued that the effort placed into promoting Mandarin weakens the role of English as Singapore's lingua franca and threatens to marginalize Singapore's minorities. Dialects such as Hokkien, along with Malay have served as a language for the Straits Chinese, or Peranakan ...
The languages of Singapore are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil, with the lingua franca between Singaporeans being English, the de facto main language. Among themselves, Singaporeans often speak Singlish, an English creole arising from centuries of contact between Singapore's internationalised society and its legacy of being a British colony.
The cultural center was built at the former People's Association clubhouse. The groundbreaking ceremony for the cultural center was held on 15 November 2010 which was officiated by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and Singaporean Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong. Construction started from January 2013 and was completed in April 2015. [1]
For students taking a foreign language as their second language, these second language qualifications are necessary to enter most tertiary institutions in Singapore, due to the requirement for bilingualism. Grades are reported quarterly to the students' respective schools, with the two Continual Assessments (each making up 15% of the year-end ...
Nanyang Junior College (NYJC) (simplified Chinese: 南洋初级学院; traditional Chinese: 南洋初級學院; pinyin: Nányáng chūjí xuéyuàn; Wade–Giles: Nan 2 yang 2 Ch`u 1 chi 2 Hsüeh 2 yüan 4) is a junior college in Singapore next to Lorong Chuan MRT station, offering two-year pre-university courses leading up to the GCE Advanced Level examinations.
Southwest Airlines is planning to reduce service to and from Atlanta next year, cutting more than 300 pilot and flight attendant positions, according to a company memo seen by CNBC.
During the 1930s and 1940s, new immigrants from China, known as xīn kè (新客) helped to established more Chinese schools in Singapore, increasing the propagation of Mandarin Chinese in Singapore. The name of Mandarin in Singapore was eventually changed from Guoyu (國語, i.e. National Language) to Huayu (華語, i.e. Chinese Language).