After independence, country have Malay and Englsih medium schools. In 1970's when Dr.Mahathir as Education Minister that time, "Martabatkan Bahasa Melayu" by announce Bahasa Melayu as primary education language in Malaysia. Dr.Mahahir during finale days as prime minister of Malaysia, switch back Malaysian education system to English medium. Now our current prime minister change back the English medium to Bahasa Melayu starting 2012.
We know how good or level of Malaysian education system. Any system not only education system, need to be consistent to maintain and enhance its quality. Ever-changing technology is great, when it comes to education system is bad.
Student's performance drop under English medium, true. But give the system to prove its worth. Students score drop is temporary, but the benefit from English medium is not temporary. Maths and Saints in English, encourage parents send their kids more to "Sekolah Jenis Kebangasaan". Reason, they will learn same standard of maths and saints as "Sekolah Kebangassan" at same time learn their mother tongue language. But now, things will turn around.
These are the surface effect, there are more deeper effect in term of budget, management, competitiveness need to be face by the government. Conclusion, switching the primary language of nation education system will bring very bad effect to government and citizen in long run.
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yes, ever changing Malaysian education systemcannot improve its quality...
We should continue in English!
Tun Dr Mahthir's poll in his blog shows that Najib's administration not listening to the people's voice. It's important to continue the policy on using English to teach Mathematics and Science (PPSMI). Emphasis must be given on English, it does not mean that I’m not respecting Bahasa Melayu and mother tongue as English is really assisting a lot in the future of Malaysians.
Therefore, I call upon all parents who love their children to all rises up and oppose the move to revert to teaching mathematics and science in Bahasa Melayu/mother tongue. If you don't fight for this now, I dread to think what will happen to our future generations while the government and these ethnic based groups gamble with our student’s future.
I am particularly concerned that the government is considering changing the teaching of Mathematics and Science from English to the Bahasa Melayu and mother tongue. I always believed that the government made the right decision to change the teaching of these two subjects to English back in 2003 and we should not make a U-turn now.
Furthermore, with English, you can do research on the Internet to supplement and enhance our knowledge, much more than what you can get from books. More often than not, you will also find up-to-date information on the Internet compared to what the books contain. However, to use this important tool, you need to be well versed in English, not Bahasa Malaysia or Mandarin or Tamil.
Considering the critical shortage of textbooks, journals, and other literature in other languages, teaching the two subjects in English would facilitate the acquisition of new knowledge by our students. Some parties also fear the threat of the erosion of their ethnic roots, culture and customs in this country and they believe that the way to prevent this erosion is by ensuring that schools teach important subjects in their respective mother tongues.
But is this a threat real? Let me be the first to tell you that I am a Malaysian Indian that received primary education in Chinese school. Besides learning Mandarin, of course I did not fail to remember Tamil, my mother tongue. My English is not excellent when further my study to secondary school. Because of that, I had difficulties in my class. All the subjects in primary school were in Mandarin. The subject that only in English is English, there were no any action or effort to allocate extra hours to the subject. This crisis does not happen to me alone. I believe most of the students in Malaysia experienced that.
So, let’s support PPSMI for a better Malaysia.
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