Reasons why Chinese tuition can help your children?

Chinese language is your mother tongue so we can teach them, we can reverse engineer the school test papers and ask our children to test again so that they can improve. and there is a lot of assessment papers and books to let our children do it. so why do we need tuition?

The reasons of Chinese tuition could be one of the three, as I understand,
Firstly, The syllables are changing and you need the tutor to catch up with times. 2017, we just saw the first batch of graduates from PSLE Chinese using the new format Chinese examination format with Video for oral and new format for both the higher Chinese and Chinese papers. To the students taking the papers, the changes in the papers are very important things to know. Of course you can take 2016 and 2017 papers and compare them item by item, but how many of you have the patient to do that?

When I was writing the assessment for PSLE Chinese and its second edition, I have gone through all the changes in the new format compared to the old and I have simplified it to be

Paper      Changes
1              Pictures are not so linked and you need to have a complete picture before writing
2              more marks for language knowledge, less questions for comprehension and a new note writing which do not need pupil's to remember the format. New comprehension questions are more higher order thinking ones.
3              LC has 2 new questions with graphical answer and both are not direct questions, rest are similar to last year questions.
4              recitation is the same, video portion requires students to know about topics relevant to their life and students to be able to cook real life stories.

Secondly, tuition promotes structured learning which helps students by building habits and gaining new skills every lessons. Students often get into bad habits like doing work last or not revising at all and gain some bad attitude from friends which will lead to suffering results. Tuition can help reverse that by building new habits with a new environment.

Thirdly, Tuition that sets goal and build schedules to catch up and win will win as it is build students' attitude in life. Yes attitude determines one's achievements.

In conclusion, Tuition is like the emperor asking a well learnt teacher to coach his princes, you should be looking at academic knowledge, structured learning and goal setting. And as parents you need to reinforce habits and goals so that children benefit from Chinese tuition.