We want others to respect us, accept Malay, we need to improve and develop in all expects especially science and technology; we should accept the reality that English is a tool which can help Malaysia to compete in international level.
Malaysian scientists or experts who represent Malaysia in international conference, can they deliver their messages effectively in Malay? I am not looking down our national language but we have to be realistic, we cannot survive beyond the reality.
A language of a nation will only be learned and accepted by other countries if only we are truly developed and we are famous in doing some researches which knowledge and technique solely belongs to our nation.
For instance, the Europeans have to learn Arabic language because the Islamic Civilization was once being respected. However, when the Muslim ignored or overlooked science, medical knowledge, the Europeans started not to learn Arabic language and later, we have to learn and understand English.
PPSMI is a basic tool which helps students to understand better and easier in science and mathematics information. At the meantime, we cannot deny that if this policy is being implemented among students, indirectly it will improve the standard of English among the students as in order to answer and pass the exam, whether they like it they have to find ways to understand the textbooks.
You might be questioning me it may worsen the situation as students cannot understand their textbook, how are they going to score. Actually, nothing is easy in this world we have to open up our mind consider about log term effect. It’s true we might not be seeing its good effect when students in primary but they will feel its advantages when they step into secondary. PPSMI acts as a tool to polish up the students starting primary and provides them an easier pathway in learning and understanding science and mathematics knowledge.
Just question ourselves, why we study science and mathematics. We want to develop our nation, our country, we want others to respect us, learn our national language in order to learn and obtain our knowledge.
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