Declining standard of English in Malaysia

You blame the system. English was treated as a non-compulsary subject ;equalent to an art or a moral subject. You can move further even if you failed in your exams.

The method used to teach English was to get people thru the exam rather than having good command of the language - both written and spoken.

As a result many school leavers speak poor English.

Look at our fellow ASEAN members - take Indonesia for that matter ; their group of educated people speak good English- just watch their government officials ; MPs and ministers speaks- well in English while maintain their ability to speak in Bahasa Indonesia.

AS such it was the policy before that has short term political milage that destroyed our standard of English

The victim - children from middle class and poor families .

malaysia - hot snippets oops sound bites

Its getting too hot here in Malaysia with so many issues around us. lets see how it goes :-

economic - The government announced 2nd stimulus pac for RM10bil , earlier the 1st eco pac ws rm7 bil - all in 17 bil is what been focused by many economists... But recently the 2nd Finance Minister said only 9% of the 1st stimulus pac was spent ? ... implementation problem ?

in 2 days - 8th March is a year anniversary for national General Election - last GE saw a drastic changes in our political landscape... we have a crisis in Perak and a new PM soon in federal ... with a backdrop of too many scandals by BN and PR people.... a very dirty game too.

Former Minister Samy is again in lime light - for all the bad reasons - MIED scandals .
Anwar's sodomy case has been transfered to Federal Court for hearing and he is appealing ...
MCA No2 man has called for government to take over PLUS
Sultans expressed disappointment with the attitude of some politicians
There will be three By election in April