Mother Tongue Languages Department

Vision

To create a nurturing and innovative environment that prepares our students for the future.

Mission

To develop students to be passionate about MTL and be lifelong learners for Mother Tongue language.

Curriculum

By the end of the Secondary 4 year at Crescent, a student should be able to:

Think critically and communicate their ideas confidently, in both written and spoken forms;
Make the connection of the cultures associated with MTL languages;
Achieve a deeper appreciation of culture, history and values because the essence of much cultural inheritance is best imbibed in its original language form

Special Programmes

Secondary 1 to 3 Mother Tongue Fortnight Activities
Mother Tongue fortnight activities allow authentic usage and exposure to MTL. Students are exposed to a wide range of activities during the MTL Fortnight in addition to learning and using the language. We collaborated with key stakeholders, including alumni to organise school-based MTL Fortnights. During the MTL Fortnight, a wide range of outside–class MTL activities are conducted to enable students to learn and use MTL in novel and exciting ways. The activities include performing arts such as drama, cross talks, storytelling, learning journeys, Wayang, talks by authors of the CL/ ML/ TL community, etc. Cultural camps are organised to provide students with an immersive environment to learn and use the language.

Chinese Department MTL Fortnight Photos

Malay Department MTL Fortnight Photos

Focus: Oral and Communication skills_

Secondary 2-4 MSP Programme
Malay Special Programme (CSP) is offered to Chinese and Tamil Language students, giving them the opportunity of learning Malay. The programme prepares students for the MSP examination at GCE ‘O’ Level. These students attend lessons twice a week, two hours per session in our school outside school curriculum time.

Secondary 1 to 3 Newspaper Reading Programme
As reading is an integral part of language learning, the school subscribes to Chinese, Malay and Tamil newspapers to further cultivate the habit of reading newspapers in the MTL languages. Students have to complete newspaper cutting activities after reading the newspapers.

Focus: Expository Writing through newspaper cutting activities_

Mother Tongue Learning Journeys
School immersion programmes are also organised for students as immersion experiences have a positive effect on students’ MTL learning as well as their attitude towards MTL. Chinese students have the opportunity to go to Changsha for immersion programme and they have the chance of collaborating with students from Yali Peicui School.

Yali Peicui School Visit