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發表於 04-12-5 03:05 |只看該作者

有冇睇新聞透視?

Did you watch 新聞透視? The topic was talking about kindergarten.
I would like to ask the parents whose kids are studying in Int'l school.  In HK, some famous kindergarten's students must learn some difficult vocabularies, such as ASTRONAUT, IGLOO, OSTRICH..................,  did your kids learn these vocabularies before?  Do you think whether it is quite difficult for kindergarten's students or quite common in int'l school?
(as 新聞透視 interviewed with some university students, members of Legislative council, some people did not know what are the meaning of those vocabularies and did not know how to pronounce them too)

Thanks a lot.


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I think these English words are not too difficult for English speaking people, as they are daily used words.  English taught by local schools currently is in fact not upto international standard, there is really a lot to catch up when they go aboard to study.

Singaporeans have much higher English standard as English is their first language. No surprise.  HK's English standard is definitely lagging behind.  

I really feel worried about the standard of our kids studying in local school when I read the English written example in P.3 assessment report which has met the so-called basic standard.  This P.3 standard in HK is just more or less K.3 standard in an English speaking country. :-|

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stccmc 寫道:
Astronaut
Caterpillar
Quilt
Ostrich
Igloo

這些字中除 igloo 外其他的都好生活化, 無乜問題。 專貴的議員, 大學生等問左 40 人才有一個星加坡人識哂, 我真係有

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發表於 04-12-5 20:19 |只看該作者

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I would think the key is not whether difficult words should be taught at the kindergarten. Kids can indeed receive a huge lot of more than we could sometimes imagine. It is in fact the process of learning that is "alarming" if it just purely asks the kids to memorise (through repetition of writing, dictations, repeated excercise of identifying words with cards).

Actually the kids can learn a lot of vocubulary if they are encouraged to read books, use/apply new vocubulary during class activities. The process of learning would be more "natural" and more "long lasting".   



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發表於 04-12-5 23:07 |只看該作者

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stccmc,

呢度除左 igloo和Caterpillar外,咁多字都會係你女間學校出現的,我都覺得呢d字好生活化,識都唔代表咩野,但唔識好似唔多妥喎.........................

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發表於 04-12-6 01:07 |只看該作者

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我最以外係點解連張文光同大學生都唔識呢幾個字,其實有睇下英文報紙或英文書籍的話無理由唔識囉。

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發表於 04-12-6 09:44 |只看該作者

Re: 有冇睇新聞透視?

I would think the key is not whether difficult words should be taught at the kindergarten. Kids can indeed receive a huge lot of more than we could sometimes imagine. It is in fact the process of learning that is "alarming" if it just purely asks the kids to memorise (through repetition of writing, dictations, repeated excercise of identifying words with cards).


Agree with Toffeeli.

To me, enhancing a small child's interest to learn is a lot more important than having her know a lot of vocabularies in kindergarten.  I tend to believe that if my daughter is eager to learn, she will learn these "difficult" words on her own and know how to use them.

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我覺得唔會唔識係佢地唔識讀個字,o的字一o的同唔深,所以香港o的小朋友一定要學Phonics.
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發表於 04-12-8 20:25 |只看該作者

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I've just asked my son (K3) to come over and he knows all these words.

Astronaut
Caterpillar
Quilt
Ostrich
Igloo

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發表於 05-1-25 00:37 |只看該作者

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I found the so-called famous school English teacher said "E-goo-lu" instead of igloo.

I found the reporter said "wiggly rom" instead of wiggly worm.

Education reform is useless without competent teachers.  A competent teacher can do teaching in a 1-to-100 ratio still produce better result. A poor teacher can do better teaching in a 1-to-1 ratio, because only one student get hurt.

The main problem of education in Hong Kong is due to too many underqualified teachers producing too many poor students.  If the teacher can't say it right, how can the students say it right?

Killing inferior schools is cruel, but one poor teacher can hurt thousands of students.  What will you choose as a parent?


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發表於 05-1-26 15:22 |只看該作者

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garon 寫道:
我最以外係點解連張文光同大學生都唔識呢幾個字,其實有睇下英文報紙或英文書籍的話無理由唔識囉。


佢話唔識又未必真係代表佢唔識,人地費事答佢之嗎. 大家又唔駛太認真呢!

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發表於 05-1-29 22:43 |只看該作者

Re: 有冇睇新聞透視?

These words are not often used in our daily life, but I suppose it is no excuse for us not to understand them. My daughter who is attending IS know them all. The samplings that fetched for interview in 新聞透視 is somewhat bias and thus distorted our assessment.

To learn a bit of volcab in kindergarten could help broadening our horizon of understanding. We should not be frighthened by that. If we have the opportunity to come across those words more oftenly, they are not 'difficult' for us at all.

In short, I think it is the attitude of learning that count. If we want our kids to learn English, we should not set a yardstick in judging their ability of assimilation.

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