"PPSMI" a Reality Became Rhetoric!

Assalamualaikum and A Very Nice Day....

Today I am very interested to discuss about PPSMI or Learning and Teaching of Mathematics and Science in English. When the government had announced that the policy PPSMI will be abolished, Malaysian had given mixed feeling about the government decision. Why? Because human being have their own view about some issues and this will lead to the critical thinking among the communities. Today, I will expressed my own point of view. From my own perception, I agreed with the decision made by the government to abolished the PPSMi because of several rationale. First, the usage of English in Mathematics and Science lead to the increasing gap between the students in rural area and in the urban area. So, as a reasult, the students in the rural area cannot catch-up with the syllabus as the main problem for students is the medium of instruction, that is the language itself.

Secondly, the decision made by government in 2002 to launch the PPSMI had been done without any proper preparation. For example, the teachers itself. Since for a long time, teachers in Malaysia who are teaching Mathematics and Science had used Bahasa Melayu as a medium of instruction and they are more experienced to teach this two critical subjects in our national language. Can we imagined how teachers to teach Mathematics and Science in English as they are not exposure to the environment of English itself? This actually made the condition worst become worst as teachers are more comfortable to use bilingual to teach in class as they are not fluent in English and also their students cannot understand what they are teaching as the students having limited usage of English. So, by using back Bahasa Melayu in the learning and teaching process of Mathematics and Science, students will comprehend with the subjects and also lead the teachers to use more unique technique in order to make their students understand better.

The equipments provided by the government is not enough and sometimes, not suitable to use in the learning process. As a proof, the contents of the textbook and some multimedia software likes CD-ROM provided by the Ministry of Education in the subject of Science is not complete and students cannot used the textbook as a first priority as many facts in the textbooks had not been described eventhough it is mentioned clearly under the syllabus provided.

As I am mentioned before, every person have their own view about some issues. Its goes the same with me. It is only my personal opinion as a one of the students who had been experienced with this PPSMI policy. I am sure that those who is categorised as 'Language Lovers" will support the decision made by the government to abolished this policy and those who is educated as "English Orientation" will be very dissapointed with the government decision. As I am concerned, this policy actually illegal as its contravene with Education Act 1996 that clearly mentioned about the usage of Bahasa Melayu as a main instruction in school. So, now it is depends on ourself whether to think the rationale taken by the government logically or emotionally...

That's all from now... Always have a beautiful day.........

See You Again In the Next Time!

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