Jauhari memasyarakatkan bahasa, sastera dan budaya

Berita Harian featured NIE Associate Professor Hadijah Rahmat, who received Berita Harian’s ‘Achiever of the Year’ award, aimed to do away with the excessive veneration of western superheroes, and instead get students familiar with Asian superheroes which are culturally significant. Prof Hadijah, NIE’s head of the Asian Languages and Cultures Academic Group, said she has been trying to change the way mother tongue languages are taught. She has introduced multiculturalism courses at NIE for mother tongue teachers. The courses, conducted in English, teach Chinese language teachers about Malay literature and Malay language, while Tamil language teachers learn about Malay folklore and Chinese culture.

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