English Should be the Official Medium of Teaching in Malaysia.

Based on the survey I have sent out and the results shown that most of the people agreed that English should be the official medium of teaching in Malaysia. Some thinks that the emphasis of English is sufficient in schools level however, this statement is not right, this is because, in Chinese primary schools, most of the subjects were taught in Chinese language. Only science and mathematics are taught in dual language which they are Chinese and English. This can be seen from one of the Chinese primary schools, SJK(C) Taman Rashna, Klang, the standard 6 class’ timetables consisted of 14 periods of Chinese language in a week, 6 periods for Malay Language and only 5 periods for English. This truly shows that English classes are not sufficient for the students to understand the language thoroughly. In one of the Malay primary schools, SK , the timetable consisted of 10 periods of Malay classes where English consisted of 9 periods. so through here, we can see that, Malay primary school have more English periods than Chinese school due to the lesser subject taken.. however, if it compared to Malay classes, English is still lesser. So, it is clear that the education policy did not emphasize much on English..

If let say we keep Malay language as our official medium of language, it is only limited in our own country whereby English is international language that is used globally and ranked as the top 5 most widely spoken language. Therefore, knowing our national language is important, yet, knowing an international language that can bring the country forward and communicate with people around the world is more important.

I found out that, 1982, English medium school replaced by Malay medium school. Then in the year of 2003, the policy changed where English is used in teaching Science and Math. But in the year of 2009, there was an announcement about reverting the teaching of Science and Math to Malay due to the declination of grades in both the subjects. However, this doesn’t really make sense, because, the implementation of policy only lasted for few years, and the outcome would have to take longer time to be seen. Plus, if there’s not much emphasis in English, how is it possible for Malaysia to develop further when the locals couldn’t converse in even the simplest English with the advanced country?

Therefore, I support, and hopefully everyone agree that, English should be the Official Medium of Teaching in Malaysia for the children’s future, as well as the country’s development.