Three times a week, Tan Xi En is parked in a room of a Housing Board flat in Ang Mo Kio, where pupils who are around her age are taught Chinese lessons. The twist? The seven-year-old is the teacher. Xi En conducts three classes a week, each lasting an hour. For...
Xi En would, for instance, read out aloud from storybooks and help collect assignments before she graduated to bigger tasks such as assessing the work done and preparing lesson materials.
“When she was younger, she would totter over to try to mimic whatever I was doing when I was teaching,” said Ms Tan, 35. There are common features in each class too. Every class will involve reading aloud from storybooks, practising conversations and going through cartoon videos she has assigned to watch as homework during the previous class.
Her love for the language stems from Ms Tan, who started teaching Xi En Chinese when she was two years old. By the age of three, Xi En could understand the language up to the Primary 6 level, Ms Tan said. Parents of Xi En’s pupils say they engaged her in the hope that she can be a role model for the children and ignite their passion for the language.
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