Mother Tongue Languages

Mother Tongue Languages

Vision
Fuhuanites: Active Learners and Proficient Users of Mother Tongue Language

Mission
To instil in Fuhuanites the love for the Mother Tongue language and culture, and to develop proficient and effective communicators

Approach
The approach to the teaching and learning of Mother Tongue Languages involves:

1. Strengthening communication skills of our younger generation

2. Promoting the awareness and appreciation of our cultural roots

3. Nurturing highly proficient cultural transmitters and language users through talent development programmes

Key Programmes

1. Mother Tongue (MT) Fortnight Programme
Mother Tongue Language Fortnight aims to create a conducive environment to promote the use and learning of MTL beyond the classroom and school. Every year, a variety of activities related to MTL language and culture are organised for our Fuhuanites. Activities include cultural camp, learning journey, workshop, competitions. These activities provide platforms for Fuhuanites to learn MTL and their culture to experience MTL as ‘a living language’.

2. Signature Programme - Reading
The reading programme aims to cultivate the habit of reading Mother Tongue Languages books in Fuhuanites to strengthen their language proficiency. CL Happy Readers 悦读@辅华 includes teaching of translation skills with reading while ML READRAMA includes script writing and drama acting with reading.

3. Talent Development Programme - IMMERSE
The Mother Tongue Languages' talent development programme aims to strengthen language proficiency and cultural literacy among talented Fuhuanites. It provides opportunities for students to develop their linguistic abilities and deepen their appreciation of Mother Tongue language and culture beyond what is taught in the classroom. This is done through internal school programmes and external competitions such as:

• Author in Residence programme

• Create Your Own Newspaper Competition

• Goodtalk (Global Village) International Children & Youth Bilingual Speech Conference

• Lianhe Zaobao Student Correspondents' Club

• National Chinese Challenge

• National Chinese Reading Contest

• National Chinese Text Recital Competition

• National Secondary Schools Translation Competition

• Three Goodness Art Competition

• Various National Calligraphy Competitions

• Berita Harian Young Journalists Camp

• Pertandingan Podcast

• Pertandingan Piala Cendekia Sahibba (Malay Scrabble Competition)

• Pesta Pantun