Ng Eng Hen said sorry! 3 cheers for GMS

[RonRon]

THE weightage of the Mother Tongue in the Primary School Leaving Examination will not be lowered, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Education Minister Ng Eng Hen reassured Singaporeans opposed to the move.

Bilingualism remains as important as ever, but what will change is the way the mother tongue languages are taught and examined, they said on Tuesday morning, in response to the outpouring of views on the subject.

The underlying problem is that students today have such diverse backgrounds and aptitudes in Mandarin, Malay and Tamil, and reducing the Mother Tongue weighting is not the best way of resolving that, PM Lee said.

'I think this would send the wrong signal, that we are downgrading Mother Tongue. Certainly, it will not be efficient in helping the student to reach the level which we would like him to reach,' he explained in a press conference at the Istana.

Instead, the Ministry of Education (MOE) is exploring examination models, pegged to different levels of language proficiency, that 'give students progressive, successive achievable targets to aim for'.

This would be fair to both strong and weak students, he said, adding: 'The better students can go further and be awarded for their achievement. The weaker students can progress as far as their abilities will allow, reach a meaningful proficiency level and get appropriate credit for what they've accomplished.'

Dr Ng stressed that such an overhaul of mother tongue teaching and examination was a long term one, and would not affect the present batches of primary school students. Any revisions to the curriculum and the PSLE format would take place over the next five to 15 years, he said.

He also apologised for having earlier given the wrong impression that his ministry planned to reduce the weighting for mother tongues at the PSLE.

 

[myfoot123]

He was made a scapegoat to test chinese patient. Remember LKY was the one who admitted that he made mistake of emphasizing bi-linqualism policy in the past. Thereafter some stupid minister (ah hen) stood out to kapo for LKY. See what happened? the whole Singapore chinese community united and send PAP shaking. Than LHL has to come out from his long beauty sleep since eon ago to wayang. As in PAP usual style, he turned his failed persuasion into self-praise by saying that people strong sentiment against his words prove that chinese language is important and past policies worked!! Such two-headed snake argument almost made me vomit blood.

 

[pallkia]

Ah Hen which I guess is not fluent in his own mother tongue is very prone to be tilted toward Western thinking and religion!Look at his family with all four children and wife bearing Western names.

http://www.cabinet.gov.sg/CabinetAppointments/Dr+NG+Eng+Hen.htm

Part of Singapore success is because we are biculture in Western and Eastern philosophy!PAP should be more careful to choose better quality minister with Bilingual ability and not just fluent in English!

 

[myfoot123]

Part of Singapore success is because we are biculture in Western and Eastern philosophy!PAP should be more careful to choose better quality minister with Bilingual ability and not just fluent in English!

But not by Lim Swee Say standard hor. He is neither here or there too and his English....so ah beng and singlish. Upturn the downturn.

 

[Ramseth]

But not by Lim Swee Say standard hor. He is neither here or there too and his English....so ah beng and singlish. Upturn the downturn.

Lim Swee Say's Chinese is actually not bad, passable. It's his English that has become political yardstick for joke. Upturn the downturn was of course his self-concocted translation for 扭转乾坤。He thought it was clever and catchy, but it came out like a bad joke after erectile dysfunction and the whoever cast that into song deserved to be hung. Actually, he himself should be hung first, the way he screeched the opening line, chickens will fall dead without slaughtering.

 

[Papsmearer]

Ah Hen which I guess is not fluent in his own mother tongue is very prone to be tilted toward Western thinking and religion!Look at his family with all four children and wife bearing Western names.

http://www.cabinet.gov.sg/CabinetAppointments/Dr+NG+Eng+Hen.htm

Part of Singapore success is because we are biculture in Western and Eastern philosophy!PAP should be more careful to choose better quality minister with Bilingual ability and not just fluent in English!

Whore Jinx said only Chinese waiters have engrish names. Does that mean Hen and his kids are chinese waiters. Yes!!!

 

[Ramseth]

Whore Jinx said only Chinese waiters have engrish names. Does that mean Hen and his kids are chinese waiters. Yes!!!

Chinese by history and tradition have the practice on taking on additional names. 名 and 字 are two different names in ancient China. For example, Liu Bei, 姓刘名备字玄德 all the way to Sun Yatsen 姓孙名文字逸先。孙中山 as he was commonly known was a Japanese alias Nakamura whilst he seek refuge in Japan. This is probably because of the dearth of Chinese surnames and the Chinese population. There must be more Tans and Lees or Lims etc. than the entire population of a small- or mid- sized country. There need to be indivdually and distinctively identifiable names.

In modern times, Chinese take 名字 as the same thing, but many take on English name, whether at birth given by parents, or at adulthood adopt themselves. Adopting an English name seems to fill this gap.

Westerners have different practice but for similar purpose of individual identification too. That's the middle name. In the west, it was opposite problem from China. Surnames are abundantly varied but othodox christened names are limited. So there's John Paul Smith and John George Smith etc.

 

[pallkia]

But not by Lim Swee Say standard hor. He is neither here or there too and his English....so ah beng and singlish. Upturn the downturn.

Lim Swee Say may not speak well but he speak with very layman languages be it English or Chinese.We need people in the cabinet like him who can roll up the sleeves to work and be practical not people like Vivian and Tharman who speak with styles and emotions but without substance!

 

[Frankiestine]

A case of the HEN CHICKENING OUT!!!!

 

[Capano2020]

Why should he say sorry? He has that 6 million dollars imaginary job waiting for him outside leh!

 

[Rogue Trader]

The real reason MOE wanted to reduce mothertongue weightage was to please FTs like armpit nagpal.

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</TD></TR><!-- Story With Image End --><TR><TD class=bodytext_10pt colSpan=3><!-- CONTENT : start -->MY SON, eight, is in Primary 2 in Maris Stella High. Primary 1 was a breeze for him. Not only was he among the top three pupils in English and Mathematics, but he was among the best third in Chinese in a mother tongue class of 36.
He is one of the few non-Chinese, if not the only one in his class, to study the language.
It changed when he started Primary 2. From a cheerful and bubbly boy eager to go to school, he became gloomy and sad. The reason was Chinese.
<TABLE cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=2 width=300 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SCRIPT language=JavaScript src="/static/ads/scripts/adsimu.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT src="http://adtag.asiaone.com/tag/a1/js/AsiaOne_edu_imu_lb.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>A few weeks ago, he came home crying because his new Chinese teacher refused to speak in English. It was made worse by the fact that my son had enjoyed learning Chinese in Primary 1.
Who will suffer? No one but my son because he will not understand 90 per cent of what his teacher is saying.
Amit Nagpal

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[moolightaffairs]

sigh! i think most of you here miss the pt! its when the ministar children going through psle, o levels and A levels, they will start trying to lower the standards of Chinese. now they said u can study Chinese in your own standards and abilities, most of the ministar banana children will choose lowest standard and score A* or A1. then those who choose higher standard will be difficult to have good score. so its a way to help off springs of the elites to collect As in their academics results than to really help students learn or interest the student in the language.

they should set the highest grade for those who choose lowest standard of Chinese to grade C.

 

[poore]

to remove it or reduce watever fuck weightage is damn fuck

soon ppl complain history hard , literature hard ,science hard, maths hard ..how???

everything also remove reduce,just learn how to fuck and procreate for the declining birthrate of singapore?

 

[leetahbar]

Lim Swee Say may not speak well but he speak with very layman languages be it English or Chinese.We need people in the cabinet like him who can roll up the sleeves to work and be practical not people like Vivian and Tharman who speak with styles and emotions but without substance!

speaking, doing and seeing that it's really happening are totally different thing.

he may speak well, done bad but still appear to be doing well but happening in the reversal manner.

very confusing and that's how most were conned during GE.

 

[Lord Imperious]

Ng Eng Hen is an idiot and this chalks up another blunder for him.

 

[jw5]

Lim Swee Say may not speak well but he speak with very layman languages be it English or Chinese.We need people in the cabinet like him who can roll up the sleeves to work and be practical not people like Vivian and Tharman who speak with styles and emotions but without substance!

That's true, noticed that he always rolls up his sleeves.
Maybe it's to show his muscles.