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Courses offered at the MOELC. The Ministry of Education Language Centre (MOELC) was set up in 1978 to offer French and Japanese as a Third Language. A year later, the choices for Third Language were expanded to include German. Subsequent years saw the introduction of Malay as a Third Language in 1986, Arabic and Bahasa Indonesia in 2008 and ...
Nov 10, 2023 · To take French, German, Spanish, or Japanese as a third language in secondary school, your child needs to: Other third language options are Arabic and Bahasa Indonesia, where the eligibility criteria is more lenient — children who achieve a PSLE score of 24 or better can opt for these as a third language.
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Nov 24, 2023 · Third Language Eligibility Criterion; Foreign Languages (FL) (French, German, Japanese and Spanish) Students must obtain a PSLE Score of 8 or better; For Japanese, students must have passed Chinese Language (CL)/ Higher Chinese Language (HCL) at PSLE; Students must be Singapore Citizen (SC), Singapore Permanent Resident (SPR), or a child of a ...
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List your child's 6 secondary school choices in order of preference. Note: 1. For priority admission to the affiliated secondary school, your child must indicate that school as the first choice. However, admission is not guaranteed as it is still subject to the availability of places. Some schools may also have additional qualifying criteria for st...
If your child is offered only one Posting Group, they are not allowed to choose another Posting Group. If your child is offered two Posting Groups, that is Posting Group 3 and Posting Group 2, orPosting Group 2 and Posting Group 1, you should: 1. Choose the Posting Group that is more suited to your child's learning pace and abilities. If no choice ...
If your child is eligible for a Third Language, list up to 3 choices in order of preference, using the 2-digit language codes. The Third Language option codes can be found in your child’s Eligibility Letter, as well as on the S1 Internet System. If the number of applicants exceeds the number of vacancies, selection will be based on merit. Your chil...
During the S1 posting process, your child will be posted based on academic merit. This means that a student with a better PSLE score will be considered first for posting to their preferred school. Learn how posting works. For this reason, make sure you: 1. Look at the previous year's cut-off-point (COP) for your child’s chosen schools. Note: Meetin...
Jul 28, 2021 · In addition, Bahasa Indonesia is widely spoken regionally, which makes it a very attractive third language to learn for communication purposes both personally and professionally. 5. Arabic. Arabic is one of the top 5 languages in World Economic Forum’s most power languages list, which speaks volumes of its importance.
Aug 30, 2023 · SINGAPORE – Since July, 120 students from 21 secondary schools have been learning French or German as a third language, as part of efforts by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to increase exposure ...
This article provides an overview of international research on third language learning and teaching, including examples mainly from a European background. It describes sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational aspects of multilingual teaching and emphasizes current research trends in this fairly young area of language teaching.
