by Ho Kay Tat of theedgemalaysia.com on Thursday, 30 January 2014 03:13
I COULD not believe what I read. The government has engaged Cambridge English Language Assessment to evaluate the teaching and learning of English as some people have complained that proficiency in the language is not as good as before.
Do we need another study? And how much will it cost? I thought the government was short of money.
If the government does not believe that the standard of English has dropped, why doesn't it just ask the Malaysian Employers Federation and the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers?
They can tell you how the situation has deteriorated over the years and how investments and job creation will slow considerably if more and more of our labour force are unable to read and write English competently.
Or they can try conversing and listening in English with the thousands of young Malaysians who do not come from English-speaking homes and studied in our national, Chinese and Tamil schools.
I was at the annual dinner of a big financial services company recently and a young man with its administrative support department, who had won one of the best dressed prizes, was asked in English by the emcee, "Please explain to us what you are dressed as".
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