I can get used to speaking Chinese at home. When entering the school, it will definitely help to learn Chinese language. Speaking of the Chinese movement must concentrate the firepower to do this in this regard.
Today, the Hua people in Singapore are facing a new situation, which may not be unexpected.This is the result of the family language choice of most young parents.The learning of mother tongue, the social status of mother tongue, and Singapore's bilingual policy have brought great challenges.
According to the data of the Ministry of Education, in 1994, among the Chinese students who entered Xiaoyi, the most common English at home accounted for only 36%of the total.But in 2004 after 10 years, this ratio has risen to 50%.After another 10 years, the half of the Chinese -speaking family in a small life of a small life was further lost.In 2019, when Prime Minister Li Xianlong spoke at the 40th anniversary of the Chinese Movement, he revealed more worrying data. 71%of the (small life) Chinese family mainly spoke English at home.How can the 40 -year efforts be exchanged for such a result?
Now, if you walk around the shopping mall, hawker center, park, etc. on weekends, you will inevitably find that almost all Chinese young children talk to their parents or grandparents in English, and rarely hear them speak Chinese.Such a situation should be unexpected when the Chinese movement was promoted.The purpose of this movement is to promote Chinese in the Chinese family who speaks dialects, in order to help their children learn their mother tongue at school.The results of the ingredients became English replaced by Chinese.
This is the result of the choice of parents, which does not mean that this is their conscious choice. In fact, it is likely to be a natural choice for inertia.Naturally communicate with children in English at home, although they actually know Chinese.
In any case, the result of this choice is the emergence of the new generation of Chinese children who use English as the mother tongue. Chinese has gradually withdrawn from the family and became their foreign languages.In this way, it increases their difficulties in learning mother tongue at school.Anyone who has a natural rejection of foreign languages, ignorant children do not understand the principles of cultural heritage and identity, but they are different from the older generation of British schools with dialect background.No one knows what cultural consequences will be lost in Chinese.
This problem now seems to have begun to be valued.In August of this year, Premier Huang Xuncai reiterated the government's emphasis on bilingual policies at the Chinese speech of the National Congress of the National Day, and expressed his hope that young parents would use Chinese Chinese in Chinese to ensure that we maintain bilingual advantages.He also promised that the government will continue to support the Chinese people to improve the ability of bilingual, encourage Chinese people to use Chinese Chinese from an early age. At the same time, it will announce that some adjustments will be made in policies, so that more good Chinese students can choose senior Chinese in the middle of the promotion.He said we hope to cultivate more talented talents.In other words, we not only have "elite", we also have "essence".
On September 14, when the Minister of Education Chen Zhensheng opened the opening of the 13th Mother Lumps Learning Forum, he announced the details of the adjustment of the policy.It is worth noting that the speeches of Huang Xuncai and Chen Zhensheng emphasized that they are not the economic value of Chinese language, but the relationship between the cultural traditions of various ethnic groups.
Huang Xuncai said: "Singapore is English as a common language, but we are essentially an Asian society, not Western society. We all want to retain the spiritual appearance and traditional values of Asians. Over the years, we have bilingual bilateral cultureThe advantages can absorb the wisdom of the East and the West, and deal with the nations in the East and the West."
Chen Zhensheng pointed out that English is a common language that promotes the communication between different ethnic groups in Singapore, and it is also a global common commercial language.Mastering English is necessary, but English alone is insufficient to our society.The mother tongue carries our culture, and mastering bilingual allows us to communicate with Chinese and Western people and seize more opportunities in the area.He also said that bilingual policy is the cornerstone of Singapore's education, and maintaining bilingual policies will strengthen the cohesion of Singapore society.The road ahead is indeed challenging, especially for local young people to master the mother tongue. We must do more to retain this important asset.
The so -called dazzling sound, government leaders' statements are important.More importantly, of course, the follow -up work, especially the attention and cooperation of young parents.It must be said that to reverse the slump of Chinese and turn the tide, it must have the power of the whole society.It is almost impossible to change when a society is choosing a language as a mother tongue.Some people will learn a foreign language because of some benefit traction, but they will not give up their mother tongue, because the mother tongue is always the most intimate language for a person.The so -called mother tongue is the language that a person learns to speak with his mother after falling to the ground.It is a long process from the toothing language to fully grasping, but no one will have complained that the mother tongue is difficult to learn.Conversely, I believe everyone will find foreign languages difficult to learn.It is even more difficult to learn a completely strange text.
The first thing that must be done first may be the name.The so -called incompetence is not smooth, and the words are not smooth.For the Chinese, the mother tongue is Chinese rather than English.Only by putting the position of the mother tongue can be pushed into the confidence.At present, almost all the mother tongue is replaced by English in the family. It must try its best to reverse. Only in this way can it be expected to restore the development of Chinese.Therefore, how to overcome the family's level is the key.If you can change the attitude and practice of most young parents, it can be said to be half successful.
This generation of young parents is the product of bilingual education. Just as the aforementioned, they choose to speak English with their children at home should only be out of inertia. With the importance of the importance of their children's mother tongueChildren can create a bilingual environment and can be fully done.Language habits are determined by parents rather than children.Recently, there is a very prominent example -Mo Shilian, a bronze winner of the Olympic wing wing kite board.
17 -year -old Mo Shilian's father is Swiss, and her mother Ding Huiqing is Chinese. In order to allow her children to communicate with her grandparents and understand her culture, she attaches great importance to Chinese learning and communicates with her husband in different languages. Mo ShiLian can therefore fluently use Chinese, English and German.A Eurasian family is still available, indicating that things are artificial, depending on whether parents have the determination and perseverance.
When you can speak Chinese at home, entering the school will definitely help the study of Chinese language. Speaking of the Chinese movement must concentrate the firepower in this regard.Talking more Chinese at the expense of less dialects. We have paid this cost that cannot be said to be heavy, and we must not lose the wife and fold the soldiers.
The author is a former journalist and a former member of the Congress
