Speak Good English Movement

Media Coverage 2006/07

Media coverage on the Speak Good English Movement for the year.

• Online Coverage
• Print Coverage

Online Coverage

Date	Website	Clipping
27 Feb 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 10.2KB)
25 Feb 2007	The New Paper Online	In DEFENCE of my sanity (PDF, 22.4KB)
25 Feb 2007	The New Paper Online	Mind Your Zs & Qs (PDF, 24.6KB)
22 Feb 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 14KB)
21 Feb 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 14KB)
16 Feb 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 11KB)
15 Feb 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 17KB)
14 Feb 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 17KB)
09 Feb 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 11B)
08 Feb 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 10KB)
07 Feb 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 16KB)
06 Feb 2007	Stomp	Freeze Frames: Signs that make heads turn (PDF, 68KB)
06 Feb 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 15.4KB)
01 Feb 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 10.2KB)
28 Jan 2007	Straits Times Online	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 34KB)
24 Jan 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 11KB)
21 Jan 2007	Straits Times Online	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 36KB)
19 Jan 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 10.5KB)
17 Jan 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 10KB)
14 Jan 2007	Straits Times Online	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 36KB)
10 Jan 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 10.3KB)
07 Jan 2007	Straits Times Online	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 35.6KB)
03 Jan 2007	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 10.5KB)
30 Dec 2006	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 10KB)
20 Dec 2006	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 10KB)
13 Dec 2006	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 11KB)
06 Dec 2006	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 11KB)
19 Nov 2006	Sunday Times Online	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 34KB)
5 Nov 2006	Straits Times Online	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 39KB)
30 Oct 2006	Today Online	On writing the great Singapore novel (PDF, 20KB)
27 Oct 2006	Stomp	New NTUC fund to help kids from low-Income families (PDF, 61KB)
27 Oct 2006	Today Online	Securing their future (PDF, 16KB)
23 Oct 2006	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 19KB)
22 Oct 2006	Sunday Times Online	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 29KB)
18 Oct 2006	Straits Times Online	Grammar reclaims glory in English teaching (PDF, 41KB)
15 Oct 2006	Sunday Times Online	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 35KB)
15 Oct 2006	Sunday Times Online	Polys revamp English lessons for students (PDF, 26KB)
08 Oct 2006	Sunday Times Online	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 31KB)
06 Oct 2006	Straits Times Online	Extra lessons for trainee English teachers to bridge degree gap (PDF, 35KB)
06 Oct 2006	Straits Times Online	New A-level subject to raise English standards (PDF, 37KB)
06 Oct 2006	Today Online	Tweaking English as she is spoke (PDF, 19KB)
17 Sep 2006	The Sunday Times	Needy kids to get Sunday Times for free (PDF, 16KB)
24 Aug 2006	Channel NewsAsia Online	MOE to start junior debating league in Primary schools (PDF, 45KB)
23 Aug 2006	Today Online	Say It Right (PDF, 19KB)
2 Aug 2006	Taiwan News Online	Singapore continues drive to ‘Speak good English, lah’ (PDF, 24KB)
28 Jul 2006	Straits Times Online Forum	Cultivate pupils’ confidence with exercises (PDF, 30KB)
26 Jul 2006	Straits Times Online	MOE identifies key areas in drive to improve English (PDF, 20KB)
26 Jul 2006	Xinhua News Agency Online	Singapore launches annual event for promoting “Good English” (PDF, 20KB)
26 Jul 2006	Channel NewsAsia Online	Initiatives announced to improve teaching, learning of English (PDF, 40KB)
25 Jul 2006	Straits Times Online	Say It Right with Denyse Tessensohn (PDF, 13.5KB)
15 Jun 2006	Today Online	More speak English as a first language here (PDF, 13.2KB)

Print Coverage

Date	Publication	Headline
March 2007	Family	Music of the Heart (PDF, 822KB)
25 Feb 2007	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 667KB)
18 Feb 2007	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 597KB)
18 Feb 2007	The Sunday Times	China Students’ Secret (PDF, 46KB)
04 Feb 2007	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 4MB)
27 Jan 2007	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 12.4KB)
26 Jan 2007	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.5KB)
22 Jan 2007	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.8KB)
20 Jan 2007	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.7KB)
18 Jan 2007	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.9KB)
16 Jan 2007	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.7KB)
15 Jan 2007	The Straits Times	Kindergarten Teachers to Get English Lessons (PDF, 1.29MB)
15 Jan 2007	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.8KB)
13 Jan 2007	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.1KB)
11 Jan 2007	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.4KB)
08 Jan 2007	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.1KB)
04 Jan 2007	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 12.9KB)
22 Dec 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.5KB)
21 Dec 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 9.7KB)
15 Dec 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 14.1KB)
14 Dec 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.7KB)
11 Dec 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 14KB)
09 Dec 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13KB)
08 Dec 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 9.1KB)
07 Dec 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13KB)
04 Dec 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.4KB)
02 Dec 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.53 KB)
01 Dec 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 14.1KB)
29 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.4KB)
28 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.1KB)
27 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 14KB)
26 Nov 2006	The New Paper	Bring Back Campaigns (PDF, 1.10MB)
25 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 14.2KB)
24 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10KB)
23 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 14.3KB)
22 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.4KB)
21 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.4KB)
20 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.4KB)
18 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 14KB)
17 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.2KB)
16 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 8.9KB)
15 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 14.8KB)
14 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 14.4KB)
12 Nov 2006	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 196KB)
11 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.9KB)
09 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.3KB)
08 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 12.9KB)
07 Nov 2006	Today	For the young, ‘Singlish’ Rules (PDF, 263KB)
07 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 13.6KB)
04 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 14.1KB)
03 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 14KB)
02 Nov 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 9.8KB)
31 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.6KB)
29 Oct 2006	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 586KB)
28 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.3KB)
27 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.7KB)
26 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11.3KB)
22 Oct 2006	Lianhe Zaobao	Lingo (PDF, 856KB)
20 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.4KB)
19 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.8KB)
18 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF,10.6KB)
17 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.5KB)
17 Oct 2006	My Paper	Speaking with a foreign accent intentionally may cause embarrassing moments (PDF, 501KB)
16 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10KB)
14 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.4KB)
13 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.6KB)
12 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11.4KB)
11 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11KB)
09 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11KB)
08 Oct 2006	Lianhe Zaobao	Lingo (PDF, 1.34MB)
07 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11.2KB)
06 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11.4KB)
05 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.7KB)
04 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.8KB)
03 Oct 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11KB)
03 Oct 2006	My Paper	Speak Good English Movement 2006 (PDF, 705KB)
03 Oct 2006	Young Parents	A new groove to Primary school English (PDF, 1.39MB)
01 Oct 2006	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken spills over to Stomp after flood of queries (PDF, 402KB)
01 Oct 2006	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 1.08MB)
01 Oct 2006	Lianhe Zaobao	Lingo (PDF, 1.33MB)
30 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11.87KB)
29 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11KB)
28 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11KB)
27 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.4KB)
26 Sep 2006	My Paper	Speak Good English Movement 2006 (PDF, 537KB)
26 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11KB)
25 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.5KB)
24 Sep 2006	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 890KB)
24 Sep 2006	Lianhe Zaobao	Lingo (PDF, 1.36MB)
22 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.9KB)
21 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.6KB)
20 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.2KB)
19 Sep 2006	My Paper	Speak Good English Movement 2006 (PDF, 672.6KB)
19 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.5KB)
18 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11.3KB)
17 Sep 2006	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 323KB)
17 Sep 2006	Lianhe Zaobao	Lingo (PDF, 810KB)
16 Sep 2006	Today	Communicate effectively to be understood (PDF, 19KB)
15 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.4KB)
14 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.6KB)
13 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.7KB)
12 Sep 2006	My Paper	Speak Good English Movement 2006 (PDF, 781KB)
12 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10KB)
11 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.5KB)
10 Sep 2006	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 323KB)
10 Sep 2006	Lianhe Zaobao	Lingo (PDF, 792KB)
09 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11.4KB)
08 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.5KB)
07 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.5KB)
06 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.8KB)
05 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11.2KB)
01 Sep 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10KB)
September 2006	Teenage Magazine	Say What? (PDF, 453.7KB)
31 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.7KB)
30 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.6KB)
29 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.8KB)
28 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11KB)
27 Aug 2006	Lianhe Zaobao	Lingo (PDF, 1.39MB)
27 Aug 2006	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 730KB)
26 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.7KB)
25 Aug 2006	The Straits Times	YMCA opening up its Plain English Speaking contest (PDF, 194KB)
25 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11KB)
22 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10KB)
21 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.2KB)
20 Aug 2006	Lianhe Zaobao	Lingo (PDF, 373KB)
20 Aug 2006	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 184KB)
19 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11.3KB)
18 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.8KB)
16 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.7KB)
15 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11.5KB)
14 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.8KB)
13 Aug 2006	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 1.02MB)
13 Aug 2006	Lianhe Zaobao	Lingo (PDF, 1.42MB)
11 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.5KB)
10 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10KB)
08 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.5KB)
08 Aug 2006	My Paper	Interview with Eunice Olsen (PDF, 305.7KB)
08 Aug 2006	Digital Life	Blogosphere (PDF, 161KB)
06 Aug 2006	Lianhe Zaobao	Lingo (PDF, 553 KB)
06 Aug 2006	The Sunday Times	What if we’re understood only in S’pore, Malaysia and Batam (PDF, 644KB)
06 Aug 2006	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 148KB)
04 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10KB)
03 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10KB)
02 Aug 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 11KB)
2 Aug 2006	Today	Decoding the language environment (PDF, 17KB)
30 Jul 2006	Lianhe Zaobao	Lingo (PDF, 457KB)
30 Jul 2006	The Sunday Times	Why you speak like that one? Let Gen Y help you get it right (PDF, 363KB)
30 Jul 2006	The Sunday Times	Why youths prefer Singlish in day-to-day speech (PDF, 302KB)
30 Jul 2006	The Sunday Times	English As It Is Broken (PDF, 406KB)
29 Jul 2006	The New Paper	MOE puts ad in UK for teachers (PDF, 585KB)
28 Jul 2006	The Straits Times	English: Let’s be pragmatic (PDF, 243KB)
28 Jul 2006	Today	Say It Right with Denyse Tessensohn (PDF, 10.2KB)
27 Jul 2006	The Straits Times	Pupils take to novel English lessons (PDF, 114KB)
26 Jul 2006	The Straits Times	MOE identifies key areas in drive to improve English (PDF, 753KB)
24 Jul 2006	Today	Say It Right by Denyse Tessensohn (PDF, 10.6KB)
24 Jul 2006	IN Newspaper	Mind your (English) language (PDF, 591KB)
22 Jul 2006	The Straits Times	My tutor the TV (PDF, 378KB)
20 Jul 2006	Today	Say It Right (PDF, 10.4KB)
19 July 2006	Straits Times	Wrong: Can fit or not? Right: Is that the correct size? (WORD, 224KB)
19 July 2006	Lianhe Zaobao	Speak Standard English Be Understood by both locals and foreigners (WORD, 247KB)
19 July 2006	My Paper	Singaporeans speak non-standard English (WORD, 941KB)
19 July 2006	Straits Times Interactive	‘Speak Good English Movement’ with new tagline (WORD, 26KB)
2 Jul 2006	The Sunday Times	By George! We haven’t got it (PDF, 306KB)
24-25 June 2006	Today	Tapping local talent (PDF, 238KB)
26 Jun 2006	Today	Will the real English master stand up? (PDF, 410KB)
16 Jun 2006	The New Paper	You speak only Singlish? You’re in berry big trouble (PDF, 166KB)
15 Jun 2006	The Straits Times	More families using English at home (PDF, 143KB)