How moronic is this educational system of singapore is? As moronic as the government I suppose.
Chinese and English are both languages, what is the main purpose of languages? To communicate, to express yourself and to listen to others. Compare any PSLE/O'level Chinese language and English language paper. See any glaring differences? You don't? Then you're.. Well, as dumb as the government.
The Chinese language paper consists on "Tian xie han zi", "zao ju", "Li jie wen da", Close passage... Basically about it. In case you don't know what "Tian xie han zi" means, it's simply spelling. Do you see any spelling tests in the English paper that you're taking? Yes/no? "Zao ju", make a certain sentence out of a specific given word. Lets compare this with the English paper again. Do they give you some word to make a sentence of? I doubt so.
These are mainly the two points I want to complain about. Other than that, the Chinese language paper is similar to the English language paper. Those two sections of the paper that I find unreasonable. I have nothing against the other sections because they test for how well you can communicate in that language.
Not only that, those two sections have the most composition of marks given. Due to the given marks, the government has made chinese a mugging subject, where all you have to do is just memorise how to write the words and sentences. Students no work to enchance their fluency in the language, but rather to do well for examinations. This doesn't only apply in the chinese language. In English languages, certain teachers make their students do many different comprehension passages and write many essays. The government should really fire such teachers. Numb skulls =X
Teaching methods between English and Chinese.
In Chinese lessons, teachers are made to go through a book of Chinese words, these words come out in the "tian xie han zi" and "zao ju" section. These words are basically your vocabulary. However in English, teachers don't have to go through a book of words, where spelling and sentences tests will derive from there.
Like in English, there is also grammar for chinese. However teachers don't go through the grammar at all. They just work on the dumb ass book. This results in situations where students "translate English into Chinese". Where the sentence structure is different. This results in idiotic Singaporeans who are able to do well in O'levels and sutff. But SUCK at the language.
Also, in the English language, teachers rather you read books, than to teach you vocabulary and stuff. What about Chinese? Do teachers encourage students to read book? They rather focus on the given syllabus and focuses the student's attention on the given book. In my personal opinion, this is all wrong.
I'm supposed to be a Chinese/English educated person, required to be fluent in both languages. But due to the educational system, I am UNABLE to write an essay covering the same point stated here in Chinese.
You get what I mean? If you don't, I would have suggested you not read at all. =]
Basically, what the government is doing is forcing students to mug languages subject, rather than focus on being able to communicate well in the languages. So what if you know many advanced Chinese charecters, but the fact remains that you don't know how to use them in a suitable situation? In a job interview, would anyone accept you, if you unable to form a grammatically correct sentence? I'm dubious about that. The government says that studying chinese is because China is a growing "super power". And that it would be beneficial to work there, when we become adults. That's beside the point. The point is, how the fuck are we supposed to compete with people from the mainland? By having paper qualificatins? We can't even communicate with the locals at our standard of the Chinese language.
I suppose.. I should end here. =]
Chinese and English are both languages, what is the main purpose of languages? To communicate, to express yourself and to listen to others. Compare any PSLE/O'level Chinese language and English language paper. See any glaring differences? You don't? Then you're.. Well, as dumb as the government.
The Chinese language paper consists on "Tian xie han zi", "zao ju", "Li jie wen da", Close passage... Basically about it. In case you don't know what "Tian xie han zi" means, it's simply spelling. Do you see any spelling tests in the English paper that you're taking? Yes/no? "Zao ju", make a certain sentence out of a specific given word. Lets compare this with the English paper again. Do they give you some word to make a sentence of? I doubt so.
These are mainly the two points I want to complain about. Other than that, the Chinese language paper is similar to the English language paper. Those two sections of the paper that I find unreasonable. I have nothing against the other sections because they test for how well you can communicate in that language.
Not only that, those two sections have the most composition of marks given. Due to the given marks, the government has made chinese a mugging subject, where all you have to do is just memorise how to write the words and sentences. Students no work to enchance their fluency in the language, but rather to do well for examinations. This doesn't only apply in the chinese language. In English languages, certain teachers make their students do many different comprehension passages and write many essays. The government should really fire such teachers. Numb skulls =X
Teaching methods between English and Chinese.
In Chinese lessons, teachers are made to go through a book of Chinese words, these words come out in the "tian xie han zi" and "zao ju" section. These words are basically your vocabulary. However in English, teachers don't have to go through a book of words, where spelling and sentences tests will derive from there.
Like in English, there is also grammar for chinese. However teachers don't go through the grammar at all. They just work on the dumb ass book. This results in situations where students "translate English into Chinese". Where the sentence structure is different. This results in idiotic Singaporeans who are able to do well in O'levels and sutff. But SUCK at the language.
Also, in the English language, teachers rather you read books, than to teach you vocabulary and stuff. What about Chinese? Do teachers encourage students to read book? They rather focus on the given syllabus and focuses the student's attention on the given book. In my personal opinion, this is all wrong.
I'm supposed to be a Chinese/English educated person, required to be fluent in both languages. But due to the educational system, I am UNABLE to write an essay covering the same point stated here in Chinese.
You get what I mean? If you don't, I would have suggested you not read at all. =]
Basically, what the government is doing is forcing students to mug languages subject, rather than focus on being able to communicate well in the languages. So what if you know many advanced Chinese charecters, but the fact remains that you don't know how to use them in a suitable situation? In a job interview, would anyone accept you, if you unable to form a grammatically correct sentence? I'm dubious about that. The government says that studying chinese is because China is a growing "super power". And that it would be beneficial to work there, when we become adults. That's beside the point. The point is, how the fuck are we supposed to compete with people from the mainland? By having paper qualificatins? We can't even communicate with the locals at our standard of the Chinese language.
I suppose.. I should end here. =]