(reddit MY is taken over by reactionaries so I run here)
So, BM. Lots of noise. People say because lack of love/lack of patriotism etc. But nobody considered that it might be poorly taught!
So, guys, especially if you are in linguistics and education, how do you see this? Is BM poorly taught in SJKs, and is a more systemic, holistic “game plan” needed? (pedagogy is the word I think?)
Not a educator nor linguist, but my experience as SJKC student is we don’t really have enough exposure of the language usage, and also parent tend to want to send their kids oversea so their expectation is BM have limited use, and the kids also follow that sort of thinking. It wasn’t the fault of the educator a lot of time, it’s just the environment the person grow up with.
I’m neither in linguistics nor in education, but I was taught in SJKC. IMO no matter how good the teaching is, students need the motivation and environment to practice especially in speaking BM. Nowadays the demography in SJKC has skewed towards more non-Chinese students, so perhaps that helps.
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