Comments on: English or Bahasa Melayu for Science and Maths?

By: varisha

varisha — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:57:16 +0000

plz,changing bi to bm iz not de corect solution for diz prob coz de next generation should move faster than we r duin right now,so that we can compete with other countries such as russia.

By: emilie

emilie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:07:36 +0000

what the fuck is this crap? that malays dont understand english and we need to change it to bm in order to let the malays score well in sc and maths? if they dont understand english words, there are the dictionaries in front of them. if they are too lazy just to turn a few pages, then this is the very reason why english is changed to bm. if they want to improve themselves, dont change the language. if the authorities are selfish and just think bout the malays n the bm, then its not 1 malaysia anymore. this concept can be banished at any time now. malaysia will never ever succeed forever if the authorities are selfish and just think bout those foolish and stupid things bout malays and bahasa melayu.

By: bongkersz

bongkersz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:53:24 +0000

@Alchemist, you’re on a roll eh? Commenting on few posts at once ehe. Thanks for the comments, appreciate much!

Leave it to the school is a wise decision, because the school should know what is best for their students. What we need is more choices for students to choose from and that’s what we are lacking of now.

Yes, you can have schools teaching in English, Malay, Chinese, Indian for those subjects but reality is. in Malaysia (assuming most of those students end up studying and working here) courses and technical references, even the fields requiring competency in those subjects are dominated by English language. Naturally it is easier to start with those language.

The point is to do it early. Not halfway. Children have great learning capability and we often underestimate them.

By: Alchemist

Alchemist — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:25:05 +0000

Erm, aren’t the SPM Science and Maths papers in both English and Bahasa at the moment? Why not leave it up to the schools (or the teachers) to teach their students in the language in which they are most comfortable? or possibly offer it as an option if they have the teachers for it…

By: UR companion

UR companion — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:54:32 +0000

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU BONGKERZ..since i ever been see how the selection of the student to became the teacher…yes we know that people don`t have same level of cleverness but seems like they just choose the people(ex-candidate of spm)with a poor result n at the same time most of the parents also support their children go to maktab perguruan as this offer already promise for better job. but the point here..this is the started of all the prob..that is the producing of unqualified teachers.. seems like you go to maktab to make sure you not became a job-seekers not to say that the people those who get poor result in SPm n go to maktab n cannot improve there but the problem is`t they really can be a teacher that can make sure each of their student have a better understanding when they are teaching…i ever learn i mean have a class from foreign teacher..she is from england..every time we having our english class she always come with some rapprochement that can cause the student interest to learn about the boring grammar and the other else about B.I..her style encourage student and i never been fill like this when I go to an ORDINARY teacher Except when i go to St school..

By: bongkersz

bongkersz — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:01:15 +0000

@Daddy Parenting Tips, a very good point there. To implement that, 1st we must have good teachers/resources. Else, it will be just good enough on paper, right? You are absolutely right that we should have this ‘power struggle’ between languages. The longer we drag this issue, more we are at disadvantage.

I look forward when we Malaysians embrace our differences as advantages instead of bickering over superiority fallacy and rigid ideologies.

Thanks for dropping by!

By: Daddy Parenting Tips

Daddy Parenting Tips — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:52:41 +0000

My daughter is less than 2 years old and she can understand both English and Japanese, and later will introduce Malay, Mandarin and Cantonese.

http://daddyparentingtips.blogspot.com/2009/07/tip-161-reading-in-both-languages.html

I can’t see why we cannot take 1 step forward to integrate the BM textbooks few years back with the current English science and maths text books. Its a lot of effort, but why move backward instead of forward. We can allow students to use either English or BM to answer in the exams as long as the maths and science principles are correct.

Some good will surely come out of the dialectics at work between both languages instead of choosing either one. We need new advancements. We need Malaysia Boleh. Not some power struggle between languages.

When will Malaysia advance and not hold on to race and language as stumbling blocks but embrace our differences as advantages?

By: The Flaccid Mind » Blog Archive » Tired of this Science and Mathematics crap. Nincompoop politicians, go fuck yourself.

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:05:40 +0000

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