Group members: Chong Kar Kee, Goh Xue Heng, Soo Jing Yu, Tan Xuan Er

Remedial and Enrichment

Remedial - Activities aimed to help students with learning difficulties to develop and enhance
their learning skills of a language.

Enrichment - Activities carried out to rectify and improve students’ ability to apply the language
skills learned in the language.

Advantages of enrichment classes :

- imparting critical-thinking skills and advanced knowledge in a particular subject to

students.
- For example, during the art enrichment classes, procedures such as colouring,
drawing and cutting which require both hands to work may develop their fine
motor skills coordination. These skills translate to other areas of their lives, such
as dressing, eating, and in academics. They also provide a positive way for them
to build socio-emotional intelligence such as self-control and patience
- Allow students to attain good grades and imbuing immense developmental benefits
- Enrichment classes provide a level of education that could possibly exceed
parents’ expectations. This is because small-sized enrichment classes may be
able to better identify the learning gaps of a student, and provide the necessary
individualised instruction to minimise and eliminate those gaps

Disadvantages of enrichment classes:

- Not be able to cultivate a love for learning in students.

- A potentially clinical classroom setting, resulting in fewer opportunities for
exploration and discovery. This may impede the development of students’
creativity, imagination, curiosity and sense of wonder, ultimately dousing their
love for learning.
- Instead, parents could bring their child to experience outdoor activities, such as
bringing them to a reservoir to learn about the animals in their natural habitats
and the adaptations of plants. These activities may encourage students to share
 more of their feelings, impressions and experiences, encouraging them to be
more aware and mindful of their surroundings
- The knowledge construction process through such experiential exercises is more
relaxing and enjoyable, hence these activities may be able to better cultivate a
lifelong love for learning in children compared to enrichment classes.

- Not ready students fully for upcoming challenges and vanquish their love for learning