Retain PPSMI — Hussaini Abdul Karim

OCT 29 — It is indeed a good idea to encourage or request corporate bodies to help improve English literacy among students or even insist they make that part of their social responsibility.

In Sitiawan, Perak, yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said a unified focus between the public and private sectors was crucial to the development of the nation's human capital as highlighted in the recent Budget 2012 announcement.

"With more resources being made available to our youth, I believe we can mould well-rounded individuals to spearhead Malaysia in the era of globalisation," Muhyiddin said during his working visit to SMK Batu 10 in Lekir yesterday.

Muhyiddin, who is also education minister, said the ministry had introduced several initiatives to enhance English language learning in schools especially in rural areas since last year.

"We have increased the number of English teachers in schools, introduced foreign native speakers to work alongside our teachers in classrooms, increased the hours of learning and introduced a fun interactive English curriculum at the lower primary level," he said.

However, Muhyiddin said students, especially those in the rural areas, had the tendency to communicate in their mother tongue.

The best way to learn English is to learn it in school from Standard One right up to Form Five just like what we students in the pre-70s did before the introduction of the New Education Policy when we entered English-medium schools, by choice.

Since we studied English alongside Bahasa Malaysia during those 11 years we were in school, we mastered both languages equally well and we had no problem switching from one to the other. So, as proven by our experience, the worry about students from rural areas tendency to communicate in their mother tongue does not arise at all.

In 2003, the government introduced PPSMI and that was seen as a positive step forward but there is now a change of mind and the government is now taking "two steps" back by deciding to abolish it.

Passing the buck to corporate bodies and hoping that they can create a miracle in improving students English is wishy-washy and if the government has made a mistake by announcing the abolishment of PPSMI, it is still not too late to back track and retain PPSMI. Many would think that the government is magnanimous if it admits that it has erred in this whole PPSMI hullabaloo.

As a logical follow-up action, English-medium schools can be re-introduced after that.

* Hussaini Abdul Karim reads The Malaysian Insider.

* This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication, and does not necessarily represent the views of The Malaysian Insider.

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