Ppsmi

A REFLECTIVE PAPER OF AN ARTICLE ENTITLED:
“PPSMI SHOULD CONTINUE”

Introduction
Learning English is crucial for every individual in this globalization era because it has been regarded as an international language and becomes an essential means of communication. Many people eager to learn English just not for the sake of pleasure or knowing the language, but it also serve as the platform to success because it holds the key to get assess to the technological, scientific, commercial world, pharmaceutical and medical. Realizing the importance and benefits of mastering English nowadays, Malaysia is moving forward by implementing policies which are believed are able to improve the reputation of English and at the same time, enhancing students’ proficiency of the language.

One of the steps taken by Malaysia is through the implementation of PPSMI. PPSMI is learning and teaching science and mathematics in English and it is the outcome of a policy decision made by the Government of Malaysia as the result from the Minister’s Council Meeting held on 19 July 2002. In 2003, this dramatic shift is implemented in the national education system and it was carried out in stages beginning with the 2003 schooling session. The pioneers were all Year 1 students for Primary Schools and Form 1 and Lower 6 students for Secondary Schools. The full implementation of PPSMI was in 2007 for Secondary Schools and 2008 for Primary Schools. However, after six years of implementation, in 2010, Ministry has decided to abolish the implementation on PPSMI in 2014 following outcry from several quarters who were unhappy with the policy.
Believing the importance and benefits of using mother tongue as the best medium of instruction of teaching, I chose to review an article entitled “PPSMI Should Continue”. It is chosen because some quarters express their opinions and forefront arguments on why PPSMI should continuously being implemented in school and in opposition side, I will forefront solid... [continues]

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