Salam bahagia...
It's quite some time since I've posted my last piece of writing. well..I'm back now. So many things in my mind.
I would start with MBI. It stands for "Memperkukuhkan Bahasa Inggeris" - a national agenda as a continuition of ETEMS. One of the reasons (according to them) why ETEMS should be abolished is that (some...) English language teachers possessed little proficiency and little pedagogy in English language. I'm not really sure how to relate this to ETEMS. These teachers would be those non-optionists as well as fresh teachers especially those who have gone the KPLI intake. For the non-optionists, their proficiency level is low, they need enrichment, language based courses and so on. For the KPLI freshies, they need more exposure in pedagogy since their 1 year course in IPGs definitely cant cover everything. So, they came out with MBM (Memperkasa Bahasa Melayu) and MBI (Memperkukuh Bahasa Inggeris). Some of us..the English language optionist - the decendent of ETEMS JUs were selected to be trained as the JUs (Jurulatih Utama). The IPGs were given the task to run the course. Modules were prepared by ELTEC and selected IPGs, but we were given softcopies. We went through the modules. Not bad, similar to BSS. Some of the trainers were arguing about the pedagogical parts; not clear it seems, Im not sure. Our goverment/ministry/our system has a habit of having adhoc kind implementation of certain programmes, this might be one of it.
Sometimes I wonder, if one of the blames is on English language teachers who are not proficient enough, which system was they adhere before?
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