What is MTL B?
What is MTL B?
PSLE marks the graduation of Primary school students and their entry into Secondary schools as teenagers.
What is the main language in Singapore?
English
MalayTamilMandarin Chinese
Singapore/Official languages
How does higher Chinese help in PSLE?
If two pupils have the same PSLE score, the one with better Higher Chinese grades will be allocated a place ahead of the other pupil. This posting advantage applies before the other tie-breakers for Secondary 1 posting.
What is Chinese B?
Chinese B is a language acquisition course developed at two levels—standard level (SL) and higher level (HL)—for students with some background in Chinese language. While acquiring the Chinese language, students will explore the culture connected to it.
What is N level?
The Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education Normal Level (N-Level) examination is a national examination held annually in Singapore. It is taken after four years in the normal academic or normal technical stream (secondary education).
Can you go to JC if you fail mother tongue?
If you fail to obtain the requisite language and/or mathematics grades at the GCE ‘O’ Level Examination by the end of JC-1, you will be transferred to 2nd year of the MI course. You have to leave the JC course regardless of whether you had been promoted to JC-2 based on internal examination results.
What is Singapore first language?
| Languages of Singapore | |
|---|---|
| Official | English, Standard Chinese (Mandarin), Malay, Tamil |
| National | Malay |
| Main | English (de facto) Malay (de jure) |
| Minority | Cantonese, Hokkien, Hainanese, Hakka, Teochew, Indonesian, Javanese, Japanese, Korean, Punjabi, Urdu |
What are the 4 official languages of Singapore?
In Singapore four languages — Malay,Chinese, Tamil and English — are official and equal languages. Malay is our common language and it is our National Language.
Should my child take Higher Chinese?
If you or your child displays a keen interest in Chinese Language and Culture and you are planning to enrol into an IP school or SAP school, then yes you should take Higher Chinese. Remember that O level has 7-9 subjects for your child to handle and Higher Chinese is a demanding subject which can be avoided.
What is the meaning of mother tongue in English?
The term “mother tongue” refers to a person’s native language — that is, a language learned from birth. Also called a first language, dominant language, home language, and native tongue (although these terms are not necessarily synonymous). Contemporary linguists and educators commonly use the term L1 to refer to a first or native language
What are the top 20 mother tongue languages?
Top 20 Mother Tongues. “The mother tongue of more than three billion people is one of 20: Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Japanese, Javanese, German, Wu Chinese, Korean, French, Telugu, Marathi, Turkish, Tamil, Vietnamese, and Urdu.
Is mother tongue a myth?
The New York Times, June 4, 2010.) “The notion of ‘mother tongue’ is thus a mixture of myth and ideology. The family is not necessarily the place where languages are transmitted, and sometimes we observe breaks in transmission, often translated by a change of language, with children acquiring as first language the one that dominates in the milieu.
What is the mother tongue by Bill Bryson about?
The Mother Tongue is the story of the evolution of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a Germanic tongue to what it has evolved into over the centuries. So, Bill Bryson + cheap equals insta-buy for me, apparently. Too bad even Bill Bryson couldn’t make this terribly entertaining.