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NEW ENGLISH CURRICULUM TO BE INTRODUCED IN MALAYSIA NEXT YEAR
BESUT (Malaysia), Feb 13 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian government will
introduce a new English language curriculum next year to strengthen the command
of the language among students, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said.
Muhyiddin, who is the Education Minister, said the curriculum was ready and
had been implemented as a pioneer project with good results so far.
"We want to enhance the command of English among students by using the
appropriate approach. The curriculum will be introduced next year, starting with
Year 1 pupils.
"The change involves the language art and grammar components with focus on
fun learning as well as the ability to converse in standard English, with
emphasis on pronunciation and phonics," he told reporter here after attending
award presentation for students who excelled in primary and lower secondary
schools examinations.
Muhyiddin said to implement the new curriculum, the government would employ
365 English language teachers or master teachers from abroad, to be posted in
several zones nationwide where they would teach the local English language
teachers.
"We believe that by doing this, we can improve on the teaching and learning
of the language in the wake of the move to scrap the policy of teaching Science
and Mathematics in English," he said.
The government was also planning to re-employ retired teachers who were good
in English to help teach the subject, he added.
On the high-performance school (HPS) programme, Muhyiddin said the ministry
had never discriminated schools in the country.
"The HPS is not aimed at creating elitist schools. It is to recognise the
performance of schools and to set the benchmark for others to emulate. This is
to encourage more schools to perform better," he said.
He also said that the ministry was planning to introduce the excellent
school programme.
"In the long term, all schools would be turned into excellent schools; so
there won't be anymore need to fight for places in fully boarding schools as the
existing ones are already categorised as excellent," he said.
Muhyiddin said the ministry would also implement programmes to improve on
the performance of schools this year to ensure as many schools could be
categorised as excellent.
"Even if they are unable to reach the level required to be in the excellent
school category, there will definitely be some improvement," he said.
Earlier Muhyiddin announced an allocation of RM200,000 (US$58,823) to two
excellent schools in Besut namely the Imtiaz secondary school and the Tengku
Mahmud primary school.
-- BERNAMA
introduce a new English language curriculum next year to strengthen the command
of the language among students, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said.
Muhyiddin, who is the Education Minister, said the curriculum was ready and
had been implemented as a pioneer project with good results so far.
"We want to enhance the command of English among students by using the
appropriate approach. The curriculum will be introduced next year, starting with
Year 1 pupils.
"The change involves the language art and grammar components with focus on
fun learning as well as the ability to converse in standard English, with
emphasis on pronunciation and phonics," he told reporter here after attending
award presentation for students who excelled in primary and lower secondary
schools examinations.
Muhyiddin said to implement the new curriculum, the government would employ
365 English language teachers or master teachers from abroad, to be posted in
several zones nationwide where they would teach the local English language
teachers.
"We believe that by doing this, we can improve on the teaching and learning
of the language in the wake of the move to scrap the policy of teaching Science
and Mathematics in English," he said.
The government was also planning to re-employ retired teachers who were good
in English to help teach the subject, he added.
On the high-performance school (HPS) programme, Muhyiddin said the ministry
had never discriminated schools in the country.
"The HPS is not aimed at creating elitist schools. It is to recognise the
performance of schools and to set the benchmark for others to emulate. This is
to encourage more schools to perform better," he said.
He also said that the ministry was planning to introduce the excellent
school programme.
"In the long term, all schools would be turned into excellent schools; so
there won't be anymore need to fight for places in fully boarding schools as the
existing ones are already categorised as excellent," he said.
Muhyiddin said the ministry would also implement programmes to improve on
the performance of schools this year to ensure as many schools could be
categorised as excellent.
"Even if they are unable to reach the level required to be in the excellent
school category, there will definitely be some improvement," he said.
Earlier Muhyiddin announced an allocation of RM200,000 (US$58,823) to two
excellent schools in Besut namely the Imtiaz secondary school and the Tengku
Mahmud primary school.
-- BERNAMA
