Monday, May 17, 2010

Mother Tongue Weighting for PSLE

When was the bilingual education introduced? It was introduced in 1966. So how many years have it been? It is already 44 years now and our multi-ethnic society has been progressing quite smooth.
Right now, there has been serious discussions about the weighting mother tongue for PSLE. Therefore in my opinion, i believe that the mother tongue should not be reduced. In facts, many students have found themselves very stressful, studying two languages at same times.

Being born into different races and religions. Of course they should learn their own roots and cultures and one of the ways is the mother tongue mainly. It helps you to communicate with your family members especially the older generations who never learn English, main language in the world. If not, there will be a lack of interaction with older generations, leading to a poor relationship. If the MTL is reduced, the students will not have the opportunities to remember and learn much about their deep roots.

Beside that, in Prime Minister's recent statements, i strongly support that the mother tongue syllabus should be changed in a new way such as improving the contents and making it easier to adapt to the new changes. So that the students will be able to cope with two languages and feel the less impact on the mother tongue.
Therefore i feel that it should be improved. No doubt that the PSLE mother tongue content may be different but hopefully it helps the students feel more confident and less stressful in passing it with flying colours. In this way, our younger generations can continue carrying our roots and cultures towards the future.

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