Changes to the teaching and testing of Chinese language in schools
Come March, the Ministry of Education will be announcing changes to the way Chinese language is being tested and taught in schools. These announcements will be made during the Committee of Supply debate in Parliament. The ministry has been studying teaching models from China, the United States and Switzerland — which are more focused on helping student to be comfortable in speaking and using the language rather than on writing.
We can expect to see changes in approach that will take into account students' differing grasps of the language at the point of starting primary school (rather than a one-size-fits-all), and variable teaching modes in both primary and secondary school.