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PSLE Oral English Mastery Course 12-week (Full Term Payment)

$1,080.00 $960.00

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Description

We are pleased to present to you the PSLE Oral English Mastery Course. Through this course, we will help your child become a confident and fluent English speaker. Besides excelling in the examinations, being a confident speaker can impress the listener and help children in both their inter-personal communication and future prospects, from impressing the job interviewers, convincing the boss with their presentations and proposals or succeeding as a salesman.

In many school, the focus is in the written components of the EL papers, and the Oral English Examination is considered a minor component in the English Language subject. However, given its new and increased weightage of 15%, it can make the difference between passing and failing, and between getting A-stars and As, or even Bs!

NEW PSLE Exam Format (wef 2015)

In view of the NEW PSLE Syllabus and Assessment Objectives that the Ministry of Education has introduced, the PSLE Oral English Mastery Course is a 12-week course that will take your child through the skills necessary to excel in both components in the PSLE English Oral Examinations. This is in line with the MOE’s requirement for students to be more social and interactive, improving their social skills for the 21st Century.

Beginning from 2015, examiners will be looking out for the students’ ability to demonstrate critical thinking and effective communication skills in the oral examination, and children cannot excel by simply studying or revising alone. They need to build their confidence and hone their skills by interacting with different people in different contexts. They need to be coached, and this means they will need to

  • Practise both reading as well as conversing,
  • Receive feedback on their performance,
  • Receive instruction on how to improve,
  • Reflect on other ways to improve and then
  • Try again and again.

Problems

The Ministry of Education announced several major changes to the English syllabus in 2012 which, while being in the right direction, have made preparation more difficult and time-consuming for the teachers.
Even before the changes, most teachers would have focussed most of the curriculum time on the written components, giving little attention to the oral component, given that the weightage is biased towards the written components. The new changes actually require even more attention for both the written and oral components so teachers will be hard-pressed for time both ways, making it even more difficult to help the students be fully prepared and confident to excel in the oral examination.
To help each pupil excel in the oral examination, EL teachers will have to train the pupils by
  • Giving each of them the chance to practise and then
  • Giving each of them individual feedback

but it is nearly impossible for teachers to do that, with the time constraint teachers face, with their many duties and responsibilities on their plates and their limited time. Completing the syllabus would already have been a feat. Helping students excel requires sacrifices from both teachers and students that are sometimes impossible to make.

 
Solution
We believe we can raise the standard of the school’s performance in the oral examinations with our experience and our programme with smaller classes to give each child more personal attention, evaluation, feedback and coaching.
Unlike teachers who are juggling many duties and responsibilities within the limited time they have, we are dedicated towards helping students excel in the oral examination. Our proposal is to have 2 to 3-hour experience-focussed sessions in which every student will have the chance to practise in front of the group and the trainer, and receive individual feedback from the trainer in each session.
Our lessons will also include video recordings of the students’ performancewhich will be sent to the EL Department, EL teachers, parents and students. Video recordings allow the students to see and hear their own performance and this helps them to understand their own weaknesses, which will help them to improve.
Besides the immediate feedback given to the students by the trainer in person during each of the sessions, we will also provide written feedback and recommended tips for improvement to the teachers, parents and students, sent after each lesson. With this feedback, the EL teachers can choose which areas to focus their lessons on, instead of teaching all aspects of the Oral Examination generally. Parents can also use the feedback to help their children to practise in real-world situations, creating more authentic environments for communication.
We will also be bringing the children through real world scenarios, also to highlight current affairs in the local context, and this is done through Role Playing every week, in which they will be able to practise the various content-creating techniques they will be taught, and this helps the Student
  • Gain confidence in speaking up in public,
  • Create sensible, sound content, and device sensible opinionsand ideas which will help the Student
    • Not only for the Stimulus-Based Conversation segment in the Oral Examination (Paper 4), but
    • Also for the writing components in Paper 1, especially in creating sensible content for both narrative and non-narrative prose in the Continuous Writing segment.

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