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Prof. Shek-kam TSE received the ‘Eminent Scholars Award (榮譽學者獎)’ from Singapore Centre for Chinese Language (SCCL)

Date: 13/09/2018
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Prof. S.K. Tse, one of the founders of the CACLER and core investigators, had received the ‘Eminent Scholars Award (榮譽學者獎)’ from Singapore Centre for Chinese Language (新加坡華文教研中心) in mid of September 2018. It was presented by Mr. Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Education, Singapore. It is the first Eminent Scholars Award and is presented to prominent scholars who have made outstanding contributions to Singapore Chinese language education in general and Singapore Centre for Chinese Language in particular. The other two awardees were Prof Chew Cheng Hai (周清海), and Dr Soh Kay Cheng (蘇啟禎博士).

 

Related newslink at SCCL (新加坡華文教研中心網站相關報導):

https://www.sccl.sg/zh/about/about-us/newsletter/162-vol-29-cn/1030-tlcslday2018.html

 

聯合早報 - 謝錫金教授獲新加坡華文教研中心頒發榮譽學者獎 (13/9/2018)

https://www.zaobao.com/news/singapore/story20180913-890702

 

 

Internationalisation through cross-border collaboration: Offshore master programme in Chinese Language Education

The Master of Education (MEd) programme in Teaching and Learning Chinese Language is one of the two HKU programmes offered jointly with institutions outside Hong Kong that lead to a HKU degree. The MEd programme offers a specialist strand, Teaching and Learning Chinese Language (T&LCL), in collaboration with the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language (SCCL) of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) since January 2012. 

 Prof. Tse Shek Kam, the programme coordinator of this MEd Programme from 2011 to 2016, is the key person who initiated the programme and made the connection between HKU and NTU.

https://www.cetl.hku.hk/teaching-learning-cop/internationalisation-through-cross-border-collaboration/

 

43 students from Singapore attending classes, school visits and conference in Hong Kong between June 2 and14, 2014.  Associate Dean, (Cross-border/International Engagement), Dr Pang Ming Fai (second from right in the first row), as well as Head and teachers of the Division of Chinese Language and Literature, Dr Mark Shum, Professor Tse Shek Kam, Dr Cheung Wai Ming and Dr Elizabeth Loh, were glad to meet with the students.

The Master of Education (Teaching and Learning Chinese Language) [MEd (T&LCL)] is a two-year part-time offshore programme being offered exclusively to the Chinese language in-service teachers in Singapore. Every year, students are required to attend classes in Singapore in March and September and Summer Session Study in Hong Kong in June. 

 

Below are research studies, journal articles / book chapters and services by Prof. Tse in relation to the language education in Singapore:

Research projects funded by RGC GRF

  • Early childhood Mandarin: Commonalities and Distinctions among Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore; General Research Fund, RGC (Project Code # HKU 747109H); 9/2009 – 8/2011; Co-investigator; completed.

http://hub.hku.hk/cris/project/hkugrant101084

  • Teaching Chinese literacy in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Singapore: pedagogical differences between kindergartens and primary schools (2006); General Research Fund, RGC (Project Code #HKU 7445/06H); 9/2006 – 2/2008; Co-investigator; completed.

http://hub.hku.hk/cris/project/hkugrant82230
 

Journal Articles / Book Chapters

  • Li H., Rao N. and Tse S.K. (2012). Adapting Western Pedagogies for Chinese Literacy Instruction: Case Studies of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Singapore Preschools, Early Education & Development, 2012, 23(4), 603-621.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10409289.2010.536441

  • Tse, S. K., Lam, Y. R., Lam, J. W. I., Chan, Y. M., & Loh, E. K. Y. (2006). Attitudes and attainment: A comparison of Hong Kong, Singaporean and English students' reading. Research in Education, 76, 74-87.

https://doi.org/10.7227/RIE.76.7

  • Tse, S. K. (2005). Comparative studies on the domain of thinking in the Chinese language curricula: Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Macao and Taiwan (新加坡、香港、中國、澳門及台灣的中文課程: 思維能力範疇). Journal of Chinese Language Education (華文學刊), 4, 40-52.

http://hdl.handle.net/10722/85060

  • Tse, S.K. & Tan W.X. (2011). Catering for primary school pupils with different Chinese Language proficiencies in Singapore through differentiated curricula and instructional materials. In Linda Tsung & Ken Cruickshank (Eds.) , Teaching and Learning Chinese in global contexts (pp. 29-44). Continuum Publisher.

https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474212373.ch-003

  • Tse, S.K. & Li, H. (2001). Teaching methods of Chinese Language in Singapore.    In S.K. Tse (Ed.), Effective teaching and learning of Chinese characters (pp. 333-351). Hong Kong: Greenfield Enterprise Ltd.

 

Consultancy Service in Singapore

  • Member of Singapore Centre for Chinese Language International Advisory Panel, Singapore (2009 – Now).

https://www.sccl.sg/en/about/organizational-structure/international-academic-advisory-panel.html

  • Consultant of the Curriculum and Textbook Development, Curriculum Planning and Development Division, Ministry of Education, Singapore (2008).
  • Consultant of Chinese Language Education, Ministry of education, Curriculum Planning and Development Division, Singapore Government (2006-2008).
  • Overseas Consultant of Chinese Language Curriculum and Pedagogy Review Committee (CLCPRC), Singapore MOE, (2004).
  • Consultant to “Smartland: Chinese Language Teachers’ Portal” organised by National Institute of Education, Singapore (2003).