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Developments in English Language Teaching and Learning in Singapore (Episode 1)

Listen to Principal Master Teacher Tay May Yin trace how English Language teaching in Singapore has evolved from the 1950s to today.

Last updated 8 September 2026
ELiS Podcast Episode 1 cover featuring Tay May Yin, a smiling woman in a red top and glasses.

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This is a four-part series on the developments in English Language teaching and learning in Singapore from the 1950s to the present. The podcast episodes feature Tay May Yin, Principal Master Teacher, in conversation with three English Language educators on the continuity and change in the developments in English Language teaching and learning in Singapore.  

In this episode, Tay May Yin, Principal Master Teacher, gives an overview of the key focus and emphases in the teaching and learning of English Language which have evolved from the 1950s to the present.

To read the ‘Monograph on 50 Years of Developments in English Language Teaching and Learning in Singapore’ referred to in this episode, please visit this link (opens in new tab). 

Episode published 6 April 2022.