29 December 2009

CURTAILING EXAMANIA OR HOW TO PUT COMMON SENSE ON PAPER?

putting common sense to paper and time to let the cat out....

"Language is taught without sound recognition, without students use of the tongue. Therefore both pronunciation and grammatical errors and confusion arising from use of first language 'sound box' and grammar/nahu by teachers and students leaves a vicious trail that plagues school-leavers for life. This is compounded by the fact that many teachers, though aware of the idiocy, obediently use modules prepared and sold to schools by the State Education department. And which modules perpetuate the notion that mute testing upon mute testing is language teaching. And when asked, the notion that Jabatan rules immune to linguistic logic and common sense "


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