Re:Singapore to rethink high-stakes math tests
by posterboy on Thursday September 15, 2016 @04:18PM
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> >Do you speak Chinese?
> I speak Chinese
oops, I notice now the question was insinuating and against the guide lines. I had fair chances, though :)
> For example, copying characters (pure rote learning) is encouraged until a far later stage in language proficiency than alphabet-based languages (where learning to spell has been acquired).
I read that before and I suppose the Korean switch to the Hangeul alphabet for example was an improvement.
I do have to look up words for English and even in my native language German to really not say one thing when I mean another. Even though this is common place, as idioms develop and meaning changes, we tend to understand meaning based on not only the grammar, but also the meta syntax, the composition of terms into text. And I was really curious whether lack of syntax, which I suppose is exagerated and placative, would thus still exist on the meta level.
> I speak Chinese
oops, I notice now the question was insinuating and against the guide lines. I had fair chances, though :)
> For example, copying characters (pure rote learning) is encouraged until a far later stage in language proficiency than alphabet-based languages (where learning to spell has been acquired).
I read that before and I suppose the Korean switch to the Hangeul alphabet for example was an improvement.
I do have to look up words for English and even in my native language German to really not say one thing when I mean another. Even though this is common place, as idioms develop and meaning changes, we tend to understand meaning based on not only the grammar, but also the meta syntax, the composition of terms into text. And I was really curious whether lack of syntax, which I suppose is exagerated and placative, would thus still exist on the meta level.