How often you use English in Malaysia ? On the street ?
It is just the few percent that who are involving in the international level will use it.
Therefore, it is time you should tell your MP or adun in the area to give you the statistic about the buying of books from English speaking countries. Some of the MPs and Adun Reps cannot even speak good English. One example is LGE, watch the debate 2 and judge for yourself. He was educated in Malay medium despite his days of studies in Australia.
The British Council holiday programmes in Penang will send another tons of money to the United Kingdom.
How much money we pay for the GCE O level exam, the IELTS and the TOEFL.
But the good of Esperanto is ignore.
British goals both in the colonial period and today are primarily political and commercial. The British Council's Annual Report 2009-10 states that for the equivalent of every $1.60 of taxpayer's money it receives, it earns $4 through its English teaching and examining worldwide. ELT is of massive importance for the British economy. This underlies expansion efforts in India and China, where it has had very mixed success, except perhaps in commercial terms. David Graddol's 2010 report English Next India, commissioned by the British Council, uses similar arguments to those articulated 180 years earlier by Thomas Babington Macaulay, a senior British administrator, in making a case for British involvement in Indian education. Influence on the learning of English may be as ineffectual as in Namibia, in this very different context.
Unesco has stressed the significance of the mother tongue for over 50 years. Save the Children's 2009 report for the CfBT education trust, Language and Education: The Missing Link, hammers home this message. But why is it that an NGO and a private consortium "discover" facts that have been known in many scholarly circles for 40 years but that ELT has failed to effectively engage with?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/13/linguistic-imperialism-english-language-teaching
Thus, Pakatan will be able to change the education act when they are in power ? For the children to choose more languages and do it with their own pace ?
I doubt it .
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