Quadrilingual Education in Singapore Pedagogical Innovation in Langu
This book explores Singapore’s language education system. Unlike previous volumes, which discuss the bilingual requirement for learning, it focuses on Singapore’s quadrilingual system, bringing together articles on each of the four languages – English, Ma
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Rita Elaine Silver Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng Editors
Quadrilingual Education in Singapore Pedagogical Innovation in Language Education
Springer Education Innovation Book Series Series Editors Wing On LEE David Wei Loong HUNG Laik Woon TEH Executive Editor Dennis KWEK
Aims and Scope – Springer Education Innovation Book Series Education holds the key to unlock human resources that a society needs to survive and flourish. This is particularly salient in a borderless knowledge economy. For the past decades, the sterling performance of economies such as Hong Kong, Finland, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan in international studies (e.g., TIMSS, PIRLS and PISA) has channeled much attention away from the traditional centers of education research in America and Western Europe. Researchers, policy makers and practitioners all over the world wish to understand how education innovations propel the emerging systems from good to great to excellent, and how different their trajectories were compared to the systems in America and Western Europe. The Education Innovation Book Series, published by Springer, will delve into education innovations enacted by the Singapore education system and situate them in both the local and the broader international contexts. Primary focus will be given to pedagogy and classroom practices; education policy formulation and implementation; school and instructional leadership; and the context and interface between education research, policy and practice.We believe that the latter is critical in making education innovations come to bear. Each volume will document insights and lessons learned based on empirical research (both quantitative and qualitative) and theoretical analyses. Implications to research, policy and professional practice will be surfaced through comparing and synthesizing Singapore’s experience with those of successful systems around the world. The audience of the edited volumes and monographs published in this series includes researchers, policy makers, practitioners and students in the fields of education and teacher education, and public policies related to learning and human resources. Series Editors Wing On LEE David Wei Loong HUNG Laik Woon TEH Office of Education Research National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University Singapore Executive Editor Dennis KWEK Office of Education Research National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University Singapore
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10092
Rita Elaine Silver • Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng Editors
Quadrilingual Education in Singapore Pedagogical Innovation in Language Education
Editors Rita Elaine Silver Nanyang Technological University National Institute of Education Singapore
Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng Crandall University Moncton, New Brunswick Canada
The Government of Singapore (c/o Ministry of Education) owns the copyright to the Extracts in Chapter 15 and the Extracts are produced with their permissions: Mekar 1A, Mekar 1B, Mekar 2A, Mekar 2B ISSN 2211-4874 ISSN 2211-488
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