The third in a series of roundtable discussions on the Teaching and Learning of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) will be held on Sept 19 involving primary and secondary school teachers, the first batch of PPSMI students in secondary school, and officers from the Education Ministry, state education departments and the district education offices. That is a great initiative which has been done by our academicians. Hoping that all policies in our country should be monitored and improved always.There are two objectives why the discussion are being held, first to gauge public views on PPSMI and to decide whether to revert to Bahasa Malaysia as the medium of instruction. The decision on PPSMI will be clarified by year-end after taking into consideration the views of stakeholders and analysing research findings. The results of the first batch of pupils who have been studying the subjects in English from 2003 and who have just completed the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) would also be studied. The ministry will continue to encourage individuals and interested parties to express their views and opinions whenever a critical decision is to be made with regards to policies, thus ensuring the continuous improvement of education in the country. Education is the main factor in producing human resources, therefore it is our responsibility to enhance the efficiency of the education. Based on facts there are no country in this world can have high achievement in the world by using foreigners language. It is true that we must learn english in our life, but the main purpose is to communicate and sharing knowledge. Why we keep on following The English in all aspects in our life. Is there any any other solution? In my opinion we should translate books and knowledge for the sake of our civilliance. We had seen The Malacca thousands years ago can manipulate the world by using The Lingua Franca or should we say Malay Language, and this had been done by translating knowledge in foreign language into malay. If we see from the west part, they had translated Ibnu Sina books and Islamic Scholars in Arabic Language into their own Language for sure english, latin, france and germany. Why they are doing so, because they knew that by applying knowledge in their own language could improve a lot of understanding towards the materials thus enable them to be the greatest in the whole world. I want to left a question here, why we do not try to act like them as we had seen large advantages by doing so. Finally, as a malaysian, we should be proud of our own language and using it in order to improve our life in all aspects based on Islam and our own principles.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/9/11/nation/20080911163624&sec=nation
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