MATH AND SCIENCE IN ENGLISH

             The implementation of English in mathematics and science, the students and were facing language problems and contents problem. This is because most of the students are not yet influenced by English totally in their life. So, by having math and science in English, it is something new to them to comprehend with. This is because; the students got less focus on English by their teacher. They learn English only in English class that most probably runs two times in a week which is not enough as also; the students only learn what is happened to be in the syllabus and no more than that.
This kind of effects can be a problem for the school and also in Malaysian education system. In facing this problem, the students need more attention from the teachers. However the same problems also occurred to the teacher trainees regarding to the use of English in daily life and in classroom. Thus is because, the teacher trainees have poor command in English and also lack of confidence in handling the activities in the class in front of the students.

As for the ministry of education, the implementation of English in Math and Science became quite a problem for them at the beginning as new textbooks need to be find to suit the government idea and to make the dream of increasing Malaysian level of education come true. All of the recent textbooks can no longer be use and a lot of money need to be spend in order to fulfill the aim and the target of improving the language acquisition of the students and also to solve the problem of Limited English Proficiency (LEP) among the students. It can also be considerate as an early preparation for the students to go to the next level of education whether they go oversea or even staying in Malaysia, one day what they have learned today will be useful in the future.

             Somehow, the implementations of English in two major subjects in school also give good effects to the students and to the country after the system had been stabilized. For some reason, using English in math and science somehow improved the students in their English for something new and something more interesting for them to learn. Previously, we can see that every subject in the classroom used Malay as the medium of instruction, and yes it is easier for the new generation to learn for their elders about math and science as the terms an the words use in the subject can be taught directly without no changes but have we ever taught that before Malay become the medium of instruction in classroom, English was the first language that was used? Now we can see that even the earlier generation used English in learning, and why not our new generation also uses it? Even some of the parents that had been through that stage of learning didn’t know the Malay terms that is use in Mathematics and Science as they learned it in English.

                Even though we cannot see the effects of applying Mathematic and Science in English just yet, but as soon as the implementation of it reaches the stability, we will possibly see the effectiveness and the goodness that the students and the country will get and bring a better future for our hopeful young generation in order to bring the country to the top of the world.