The performance of primary two pupils on comparable listening tasks in English and Chinese

The focus of this study is the Listening Comprehension abilities of Primary Two pupils in English and Chinese in Singapore schools. The purpose was to examine and then compare their LC proficiency levels in these two languages. The study involved 136 pupils from six Primary two classes of a school situated in an industrial area in Singapore. Most of the subjects had attended kindergartens and had had at least one to two years of formal bilingual education. A supplementary analysis of responses given by the subjects in interviews, established that CL and dialects predominated in their home background.Master of Educatio