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Starting From the Beginning – Chinese Supporting Scheme for Non-Chinese Speaking Students in Kindergarten
Designing curriculum, pedagogy, learning materials and assessment tools for Non-Chinese-speaking (NCS) kindergarten pupils to learn Chinese
ABOUT
Year Established: 2015
Beneficiaries: Non-Chinese-Speaking pupils
| www.oxfam.org.hk | |
| Oxfam | |
| Enhancing EM children’s proficiency in Chinese |
SOCIAL ISSUES
- Out of 20% of the 450,000 ethnic minorities are living under the poverty line
- There is a lack of social services to support ethnic children learning Chinese
- Most of the ethnic minorities work in unskilled jobs and are trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty simply because they are not proficient in Chinese
SOCIAL INNOVATION
- The first ‘Chinese as the Second Language’ programme using an “NGO-University-Kindergarten” model
- Silver-aged models will be engaged as key opinion leaders or spokesmen for organizations
EXCEPTED SOCIAL IMPACT
 | 14,000 hours of Chinese courses to be offered to 240 NCS children laying a strong foundation within their own golden period of learning (between 3 - 5 years old) |
 | 12,000 NCS children to be using the new teaching materials developed by the researchers |
 | Social exclusion to be reduced by improving Chinese of NCS children |
 | Better social supports to be provisioned for the ethnic children to learn Chinese |
 | The NCS people to receive more opportunities in getting high-end jobs, getting a chance to break out of the vicious cycle of poverty |
SERVICE MODEL
PROGRAMME CONTENT
Learning Materials and Curriculum
Chaptered textbooks and themed story books
Intensive Classes
On reading, listening, speaking and writing