English Language In Malaysian Education System

The malaysian education system toward bahasa malaysia as the language of instruction.

English language in malaysian education system. Since 1974 communicative language teaching has been proposed for the english language syllabus and it is an approach to engage learners in interaction and meaningful. The main legislation governing education is the education act 1996. The education system is divided into preschool education. The english language education reform in malaysia.

Language education in malaysia from then reveals the steady decrease in access and exposure to the english language as two types of public primary schools in malaysia were established with the policy the national schools and the national type schools. Education in malaysia is overseen by the ministry of education kementerian pendidikan although education is the responsibility of the federal government each state and federal territory has an education department to co ordinate educational matters in its territory. There is a need to communicate in a common language across the globe english. This article sets out to give a historical account of english language education programs in malaysia as a foundation for understanding the existence of english language in malaysia and its importance to malaysian learners.

The language background of. In malaysia the education system is too academic focus. In malaysia a bilingual education policy is employed in which the national language is the malay language while english on the other hand is the additional language or l2 darmi albion 2013. In the malaysian education system a formal style of english language learning takes place in classrooms.