Malay Language
Vision
At ACS (Primary), we aim at providing a holistic education that will help develop our students in all the four main areas namely Affective, Cognitive, Social and Physical. The Mother Tongue Department (Malay Language) seeks to provide a linguistically exciting, culturally vibrant and morally positive environment for our students. We believe such a learning environment will be conducive for our students’ development in these four main areas.
Curriculum
The curriculum objectives in the learning of Malay Language are to develop student’s general ability, civic literacy and cultural awareness alongside the development of the language skills.
The Malay Language syllabus is based on the CEKAP package which feature meaningful and relevant learning content and engaging authentic language tasks.
The learning content mainly focuses on personal, family, school, community, and environment. The content addresses students’ learning needs and motivates their learning interests. On top of that, the story characters, Adi, Ana, Budi, Laila and Zaid will grow up and learn alongside the students.
Assessment Matters
We focus on six main core skills, namely listening skills, speaking skills, reading skills, writing skills, interactive conversational skills, and interactive writing skills.
Listening Skills
The listening skills component teach students to listen and understand texts from different genres such as short stories, novels and poetry and respond to questions based on the given texts.
Speaking Skills
The Speaking Skills component trains students to be able to communicate in clear fluent and effective Standard Malay Language.
Reading Skills
Reading skills empowers the students to read texts from different genres with understanding and to make appropriate response. Students will be able to read with the proper intonation, appropriate to the context of the sentence.
Writing Skills
Writing skill includes the ability to write narrative, descriptive and functional essays based on the guide given.
Interactive Skills
Interactive conversational skills enable students to discuss in groups, able to establish a conversation and responds accordingly based on different topics on self, family, school, community, and environment. Interactive writing skills focus on the students’ ability to write for a specific purpose and audience.
We develop learning packages for students from Primary 3 to Primary 6. The packages include composition packages, oral packages, and comprehension packages. Such packages help students to be well-versed in the subject. Students are given adequate practice papers to ensure that they know the format of the paper and learn time-management as they are required to complete the paper within the stipulated time.
Programme
Primary 1 - Primary 2
Applied Learning Programme
Applied Learning Programme aims to provide learning opportunities for students to appreciate Malay Language and infuse fun in the Malay Language learning experiences such as Story Telling and Drama. This will deepen student’s interest in learning Malay Language and communicate effectively and confidently.
Primary 4 - Primary 6
Conversational Chinese/Malay Programme
This programme aims to equip students with a foundational grasp in the Chinese or Malay Language.
Primary 1 - Primary 6
Values in Action (VIA)
Values in Action (VIA) at Anglo Chinese School (Primary) aims to provide students with the exposure that allows them to be Community Collaborators, Effective Communicators and apply our school’s iHOPEFUL values. The Community Collaborator and Effective Communicator are two of the traits we aspire for every young gentleman in ACS(P). As part of our effort to inculcate a caring and positive attitude towards the elderly, we organise visit to the Pertapis Senior Citizens Fellowship Home.
Primary 1 - Primary 6
Mother Tongue Languages Fortnight
Mother Tongue Fortnight activities allow authentic exposure to Malay Language. Students are exposed to a wide range of activities during the MTL Fortnight. In addition to learning and using the language, activities such as Dikir Barat, Kompang, Angklung, Silat, Zapin and Gamelan provides authentic hands-on experiences for students. Such exposure provides an element of fun injected in the learning of the Malay Language.
Learning Support/ Stretch Programmes
Primary 5 - Primary 6
Remedial Programme
Selected P5 and P6 students will attend the remedial programme. Teachers will also focus on the various examination components like language and writing skills.
Events
- Mother Tongue Languages Presentation Day
- Hari Raya Sharing
Competitions
- EDN Writing Competition (2018, 2020, 2021)
- Young Cartoonist (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
- NUSA Story Telling Competition (2022)