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SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Education (MOE) said that effective communication skills are essential in the information age.
At a teaching seminar, the ministry emphasised that teachers play a key role in ensuring that students are able to use English to communicate effectively.
Launched on Wednesday, the "EL Cube" is an example of an online resource developed to help teachers plan English lessons more efficiently.
Lessons can be structured with teaching strategies found in the system to make classroom learning of the English language more effective.
MOE also said an evolving technological landscape means educators have to move past traditional notions of literacy as just being able to read or write.
Senior Minister of State for Education S Iswaran said: "Increasingly, we are processing and interpreting information that is presented through multi-media images and sounds.
"To be 'literate' would thus mean being able to interpret critically the powerful and complex messages of a multimedia world, as well as being able to express ourselves in multiple media forms."
- CNA/sc
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