Mother Tongue Malay Language

Our Mission

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

Why Malay Language matters

Our Malay Language curriculum equips students with essential skills and competencies required in using their Malay 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 Malay Language to communicate clearly and competently across diverse contexts, strengthening bilingual competence.

• Cultural Awareness and Global Mindset
  Deepen appreciation of Malay 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.

Our 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.

Malay Language learning beyond the classroom provides pupils with meaningful opportunities to apply language skills through cultural celebrations, interactive programmes, and drama-based learning. Activities such as Hari Raya celebrations, Mother Tongue Fortnight, and Drama Workshops nurture pupils to be confident communicators, creative thinkers, and effective problem solvers.

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
The Focused Dialogue Enrichment Programme provides pupils with an authentic platform to develop their oral communication skills in Malay. Through planning, scripting, recording, and reflecting on their dialogue, pupils learn to express ideas clearly, articulate opinions confidently, and engage listeners effectively.

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.