Overview
- Focuses on empirical classroom research on the four official languages, showcasing the overarching quadrilingual education system in Singapore
- Also brings in insights on early years / primary level language-in-education settings and issues
- Highlights past successes, current concerns and future directions for language education in Singapore
- Examines the dialectical relationship between policy and practice
- Provides in-depth knowledge on Singapore’s language education system that allows readers to understand the system as well as gain insights into their own educational systems, issues, concerns and pedagogies
- Provides a basis for international comparison – especially for those who are interested in fostering English proficiency while maintaining one or more national languages
Part of the book series: Education Innovation Series (EDIN)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Competencies
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Practices
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Reforms
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rita Elaine Silver is an Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, National Institute of Education, Singapore. Her specialisation is language-in-education with an emphasis on policy-classroom pedagogy-professional development connections. Her work has appeared in Language Policy, TESOL Quarterly, System,Language Teaching Research, Language in Education, Cambridge Journal of Education, and Journal of Educational Change. Previous monographs includeLanguage in Education: Social Implications (with M. Lwin, 2014); Language Learning in New English Contexts (with L. Alsagoff & C. C. M. Goh, 2009) andLanguage Learning: Home, School and Society (with C. C. M. Goh, 2007). She is co-editor of Language and Education.
Wendy Bokhorst-Hengis an Associate Professor in Education at Crandall University, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Prior to her current position, she has also held positions in Singapore at the National Institute of Education, in Washington, D.C. at American University, and has directed a language program at the British Council in Beijing, China. Her research involves a focus on language policy and ideology, English as an international language, multiculturalism and diversity, and comparative education. Her work has appeared in World Englishes, Multilingua, TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Current Issues in Language Planning. She has also contributed chapters to a number of books. She has a co-authored volume with S. McKay, International English in its Sociolinguistic Contexts.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quadrilingual Education in Singapore
Book Subtitle: Pedagogical Innovation in Language Education
Editors: Rita Elaine Silver, Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng
Series Title: Education Innovation Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-967-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-965-3Published: 21 January 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-967-7Published: 21 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2211-4874
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4882
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 326
Number of Illustrations: 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Language Education, Curriculum Studies, Literacy, Learning & Instruction