Epilogue

Abstract

Forecasting what may happen in the distant future is futuristic; predicting what should happen in the near future is crystal gazing. The articles of this volume may be somewhere in between the scientific and mysterious foresights. In this sense, all the articles deal with what has happened in the past of the teaching of Chinese Language in Singapore and what can be made to happen in the next decade or so. Admittedly, in each article, there is a mixture of objective facts, of the recent past and the present, and personal views, hopes, and aspirations. Cutting through all the discourse is the common concern for and interest in effective teaching of Chinese Language in Singapore schools. This is close to the heart of all the authors who, before becoming researchers at the Centre, have been Chinese Language teachers themselves and are in regular contact with practitioners in the school.