Clearer picture on English for Teaching Science and Maths

The teaching and learning of Science and Mathematics in English will be scrapped in stages from 2012 starting with Year 1, Year 4, Form 1 and Form 4, Education Director-General Alimuddin Mohd Dom said.

Form Six and matriculation would not be involved in the scrapping of the policy, he added.

“As a ‘soft landing’ mechanism, the teaching and learning of both subjects will be carried out in two languages either in English and Bahasa Malaysia or Chinese or Tamil from 2010.

“The teaching and learning of Science and Mathematics for Year 4 in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and Year 5 in 2013, 2014 and 2015 and Year 6 in 2014, 2015 and 2016 will be conducted in two languages,” he told reporters after meeting Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin who is also Education Minister, here today.

In line with this, he said, Science and Mathematics examinations would be carried out in two languages until 2016.

Both subjects would be taught in two languages in Form 4 in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and Form 5 in 2013, 2014 and 2015, he said.

The Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia examinations for both subjects would be carried out in two languages until 2015, he said.