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Monday, May 17, 2010
Reducing the weighting of Mother Tongue in the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) may be advantageous to some students, but not to the others. For students who frequently converse with their families using their Mother Tongue Language, they will be at a disadvantage if the weighting of Mother Tongue in the PSLE is reduced. To be more exposed to the Mother Tongue Language at home, it is not surprising for them to have a better command of the language, thus being able to do well in the examination, and that would assist their entire PSLE aggregate. However, for students who come from English-speaking families, a reduction in the weightage of the Mother Tongue Language would be beneficial to them. These students have fewer opportunities to interact with people, practise or read using their Mother Tongue Language as compared to their peers. They will in turn lose out in their language proficiency and in turn, affecting their PSLE aggregate in the negative way. Such an action would also mislead the students into thinking that the Mother Tongue Language is unimportant as it does not share the same weighting as the other subjects thus resulting in them paying less or no attention to the subject. Students may suffer the consequences in the future when they enter the working world where they may be in contact with people who only uses their Mother Tongue Language. To avoid this from happening, they should pay equal attention to this subject as the others. In conclusion, the Mother Tongue Language is as crucial as the English Language so its weighting in the PSLE should not be reduced, enabling the students to graduate from primary school being bilingual. - SASHA
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