Mother Tongue Chinese Language

Our Mission

Nurturing future-ready, effectively bilingual Yu Neng students through digital innovationand creative thinking, fostering proficiency in Mother Tonguage Language while deepening appreciation of traditional culture and moral values.

Why Chinese Language Matters

Our Chinese Language curriculum equips students with essential skills and competencies required in using their Chinese Language to thrive in a rapidly evolving, interconnected world. To ensure that our Yu Neng students are future ready, our curriculum aims to equip them with:

• Effective Communication Skills

  Develop confidence and fluency in Chinese Language to communicate clearly and competently across diverse contexts, strengthening bilingual competence.

• Cultural Awareness and Global Mindset

  Deepen appreciation of Chinese cultural heritage, traditions, and values, while fostering respect for diversity and a strong sense of identity.

• Global Connectivity

  Connect meaningfully with wider communities across Asia and the world, enabling collaboration in an increasingly interconnected global landscape.

• 21st Century Competencies

  Cultivate critical and inventive thinking, digital literacy, collaboration, and cross-cultural understanding—essential skills for future-ready learners.

Key Programmes

Our Mother Tongue Languages programme offers a rich and engaging range of activities designed to develop language proficiency while nurturing cultural understanding and 21st-century competencies. Students participate in a variety of language-focused activities, including Library Week, MTL SOAR (Reading programme), and language competitions, to strengthen their literacy, communication, and creative thinking skills. Beyond the classroom, students immerse themselves in cultural and festival celebrations, such as Chinese New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Chinese Cultural Camp, where they engage in traditional activities like lion dances, lantern-making with watercolours, etc during these festivities. These experiences make learning vibrant and interactive, fostering values such as respect, collaboration, gratitude, and a sense of community. Special learning spaces such as the Multilingual Hub further enhance learning, providing visual and exploratory environments where students can connect with their Mother Tongue Language, culture, and values in meaningful and interactive ways. Through these programmes, our Mother Tongue Languages curriculum nurtures future-ready, confident, and culturally grounded learners who are proficient in language and deeply appreciative of their heritage.

Activities

The Yu Neng Difference

Our MTL Curriculum @ Yu Neng emphasises:

Strong Foundations through Purposeful Scaffolding

• Differentiated and progressive support to build core literacy, oral skills, and learner confidence, e.g. MTL Fundamental, AI tools to reinforce, etc

Stretch Programmes to Challenge our students

• Enrichment programmes (e.g. calligraphy, Weiqi, and cross-talk, etc. and competitions (e.g. text recital, storytelling, cross-talk, and language quizzes) to deepen language mastery, articulation and resilience

Integration of Language, Culture, and Values

• Experiential learning stations, authentic language and cultural immersion through lessons, camps, and festive celebrations, e.g. Virtual Immersion Program, etc

Future-Ready and Digitally Enabled Learning

• Effective use of digital tools to engage learners and develop confident, bilingual learners in a globalised world, e.g. SLS, wordwall, etc

Through this balanced and inclusive approach, Yu Neng’s Mother Tongue Languages curriculum aims to nurture confident and future-ready bilingual learners grounded in language, culture, values and innovation.