PPSMI dimansuhkan..

Science And Maths In BM And Mother Tongue In 2012

PUTRAJAYA, July 8 (Bernama) - The teaching and learning of science and mathematics in national schools will revert to the Malay language effective 2012.

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the teaching and learning of the two subjects in Chinese and Tamil national-type schools would be carried out in their respective mother tongue.

Muhyiddin, who is also the Education Minister, said the cabinet today approved the suggestion by the ministry to empower the Malay language and strengthen the teaching and learning of the English language at all levels of schooling.

"This strategy was drawn up based on the study and monitoring carried out by the Education Ministry on the teaching and learning of science and mathematics in English since the policy was implemented in 2003," he said when making the announcement at the Education Ministry, here on Wednesday.

The first group of students who studied science and mathematics in the English language since Year One sat for their Ujian Penilian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) last year.

Muhyiddin said the implementation of the policy of using the Malay language in the teaching of the two subjects would be carried out in stages in Year One and Year Four in the primary school and Form One and Form Four in the secondary school beginning in 2012.

However, he said, the change would not involve students in Form Six and matriculation class.

He said in order to ensure that the implementation of the new strategy did not affect the achievement of students who were taught the two subjects in English, the teaching of and examination for the two subjects would be conducted in both languages until the last batch of students who were taught in English completed in 2014.

He said the government made the decision after scrutinising the outcome of studies and surveys carried out on the teaching and learning of the two subjects in English which showed that it could not be implemented as desired.

"What is implemented is the teaching and learning of science and mathematics in English/Malay languages," he said.

Muhyiddin said monitoring by the ministry last year found that only a small group of teachers were using English language fully in the teaching of science and mathematics.

"On the average, the percentage of English usage is between 53 and 58 per cent out of the total time allotted for science and mathematics," he said.

In addition, he said, only a small group of mathematics and science teachers in secondary and primary schools who took the English language Proficiency Level Evaluation test last year achieved the proficiency level.

He said the precentage of students who scored grades A, B, and C for the science subject in the UPSR last year had dropped from 85.1 per cent to 82.5 per cent for the urban schools and from 83.2 per cent to 79.7 per cent for rural schools.

"For mathematics, the achievement of urban schools dropped from 84.8 per cent to 80.9 per cent while the achievement of rural students dropped from 80.9 per cent to 77 per cent," he said.

He said the gap in achievement between urban and rural schools in science and mathematics was becoming wider when the PPSMI (teaching and learning of science and mathematics in English) was implemented.

--BERNAMA

Ya.. Aku belum sempat merasa elaun PPSMI.. Dah dimansuhkan..

Ada yang happy dan ada yang tak puas hati.. Pada pandangan aku.. Kita perkasakanlah dulu penguasaan Bahasa Inggeris rakyat Malaysia sebelum mengambil langkah mengajar subjek penting Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris..

Seperti kata seorang Profesor tersohor UPM Kampus Serdang, Prof. Madya Dr. Mat Rofa bin Ismail.. Beliau mewakili Malaysia ke Pertandingan Matematik Peringkat Dunia beberapa tahun lalu.. Dan beliau memberitahu kami di dalam kuliah (subjek Falsafah Sains), bahawa yang mendapat tempat pertama dan kedua dalam pertandingan tersebut merupakan negara-negara yang Matematiknya diajar dalam bahasa negara mereka.. *Kalau aku tak silap, Jepun dan Rusia.. (Hampir lupa.. Maaf)

Aku sendiri belajar Matematik, Matematik Tambahan, Sains, Fizik, Biologi dan Kimia di dalam Bahasa Malaysia.. Aku amik SPM tahun 2002.. Kira era milenium lah lagi tu.. Ok je.. Aku dan kawan2 aku jadik orang je.. Aku mampu tengok cerita Inggeris kat TV tanpa bergantung dengan sari kata BM.. Aku boleh menghadiri lecture di UPM selama 4 tahun yang 80% daripada lecture aku dalam BI.. OK je pointer aku.. Padahal family aku menggunakan BM 100% di rumah.. Ada campur loghat utara 50%.. Hahaha..

Maka dengan itu.. Walau apa pun keputusan kerajaan, aku sebagai seorang guru Matematik sekolah SBP menerima dengan hati yang terbuka.. Tanpa apa-apa rungutan.. Bagi aku mereka dah buat kajian bertahun-tahun dan dah berbincang, bermesyuarat berkali-kali.. Kerajaan lebih tahu apa yang terbaik untuk rakyat mereka..

Harap-harap prestasi pelajaran pelajar luar bandar kita akan meningkat selepas ini.. Pada pandangan aku, mereka lah yang paling gembira dengan keputusan pemansuhan PPSMI ni..

Aku tahu sebahagian guru-guru kat SM Sains Seri Puteri pasti kurang senang dengan keputusan pemansuhan PPSMI ni.. Takpe.. Sabar ye cikgu-cikgu..

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