Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Singapore Centre for Chinese Language is dedicated to research studies that are closely associated with the teaching and learning of Chinese language. Keeping in mind the "Research-Validate-Train (RVT)" spirit, SCCL develops innovative pedagogies and publishes academic books and teaching toolkits to meet the rising challenges in teaching and ...
The China Cultural Centre (Chinese: 中国文化中心) is a cultural center about China in Central Area, Singapore. It should not be confused with the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, a local charity patroned by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, located at 1 Straits Boulevard.
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 ...
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).
The Chinese Heritage Centre (CHC; Chinese: 华裔馆; pinyin: Huáyì Guǎn) is an institute for the study of overseas Chinese under the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. As the first and only university institute for the study of overseas Chinese, it serves as a research centre , a library and a museum .
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 ...
The Promote Mandarin Council (Mandarin Chinese: 讲华语运动, romanized: Jiǎng huáyǔ yùndòng, lit. 'Speak Mandarin Campaign') is a Singaporean organisation established in 1979 as part of then-PM Lee Kuan Yew's programme to promote Mandarin as the preferred language amongst Chinese Singaporeans.
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.