Do Parents Hold The Key To Their Kids Being Comfortable With Mother Tongue Languages? Deep Dive podcast

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Do parents hold the key to their kids being comfortable with mother tongue languages?

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With English dominating daily life in Singapore, some parents say they lack the confidence or motivation to speak and teach their mother tongue at home. So how can we help children appreciate and learn their mother tongue languages — and can we see them as more than just another school subject? Steven Chia and Tiffany Ang sit down with Dr Tan Ee Ling, owner of Shiawase Books and Hayati Abdullah from NUSA Malay Language Tuition and Enrichment Centre on this week’s episode of Deep Dive.

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Chapters

1. Do parents hold the key to their kids being comfortable with mother tongue languages? (00:00:00)

2. Is learning Mother Tongue getting harder? (00:02:06)

3. Mother Tongue - Language or subject? (00:08:40)

4. What should Mother Tongue exams focus on? (00:14:02)

5. Learning mother tongue is a lifelong journey (00:19:16)

6. Meeting the children where they are at (00:23:10)

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