Scaffolding Singaporean Students to Write Vividly in the ‘Mother Tongue’, Mandarin

This paper details results from a three-year study investigating how to help students in Singapore write vivid compositions in Mandarin, the Chinese ‘mother tongue’. Mastery of the mother tongue by Singaporean students has become an important government priority in recent years. The strategies emplo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tzemin Chung, Neil Anderson, Munkew Leong, Waiyin Choy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2016-08-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3338