PPSMI

What's PPSMI? Is it a virus? Nah,its actually an acronym for Pengajaran dan Penbelajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam bahasa Inggeris or in the anglo version,its Learning and Studying Science and maths in English. See how smart our government in making acronyms.


Anyway,this topic is highly debatable these days and there are 3 factions involved which are those who want change,those who want Bahasa Melayu to rule supreme and those who doesn't any changes.

So who are actually in these factions.They are:

1) People who are english educated or the younger generation form the 1st faction.

2) People who are malay educated or the older generation form the 2nd faction,These includes ppl who support the idea of direct translations of English terms like those which ends in -logy- into -logi- so the word sounds malayish.

3) People who are afraid that their culture will be diluted,mostly are Chinese or Tamil educated

I support PPSMI but I feel that the foundations aren't being laid properly cos the teachers aren't that good in English and the English being taught in school is focus more in communication than in learning. I also think with the usage of English in these fields will improve our technological level in research and development.

Some ppl are against the idea cos they are thinking in the lines of the Japanese and French or they are saying that we shuld be like the Arabs who translates all the foreign ideas into their language and forced the foreigners to learn Arabic in order to study in Arabic Unis.

For me this view point is immature cos:

1) We don't have good translators
2) We aren't not technologically advance than the western world

PPSMI is a good idea to help the country to be technologically advance and thus improving our R and D sector. When we become the leader in these sectors,then we can start to force the world to learn Bahasa Melayu. Muahahahhahaa


ps: pls share ur thoughts on this issue with me