by Hanifa K. Cook | Mar 19, 2014 | Language, Learning Skills, Montessori, Reading
If someone tells you they learn about a plane crash (Malaysian Airlines MH370), rarely do they quote the Straits Times papers. It was on the television news and youtube. All it takes is a few search words that are tagged for you to get to the news update.
Can We Teach Kids The Art Of Tagging?
by Hanifa K. Cook | Mar 17, 2014 | Chinese, English, Language
What do price, Facebook, bags and the English Language have in common? It is tagging. Price tags, blog taglines, question tags, Facebook tags and bag tags. Facebook tags are like cancer cells in the bone. You can privatise or remove tags, but another one just pops up out of nowhere. If anything, it is always misused.
by Annie Cook | Mar 7, 2014 | Chinese, Language, Learning Skills
Shila Amzah demonstrates to us that learning a new language doesn’t have to begin when you are young. It may be slower for adults but as we know it, if we are able to entertain our hearts and minds with a new language, acquiring a new language is easier than we think.