{"id":3151,"date":"2009-01-19T13:46:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T05:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2009-01-19T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T05:46:48","slug":"what-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/01\/19\/what-english\/","title":{"rendered":"What English?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hours ago, I was talking to my niece who entered form 4 this year. She&#8217;s in Science stream &#8211; taking Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. The teachers are struggling with teaching in English. One spoke like bullet train, and asked the students to change to Arts stream when they said &#8220;don&#8217;t understand&#8221;. Another is trainee teacher is doing practicals and the students are made scapegoats because they guy can&#8217;t speak properly.\u00a0 The third teacher also unable to communicate in English well.<\/p>\n<p>So, this makes me wonder. What do you mean by teaching science subjects in English?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours ago, I was talking to my niece who entered form 4 this year. She&#8217;s in Science stream &#8211; taking Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. The teachers are struggling with teaching in English. One spoke like bullet train, and asked the students to change to Arts stream when they said &#8220;don&#8217;t understand&#8221;. Another is trainee teacher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}