More hours in English to bring positive results


THE Education Ministry is of the view that the extended time for the teaching of English will benefit pupils as its objectives are to strengthen and enhance pupils’ learning experience in the subject.

The move to increase the number of hours for the teaching of English in national and vernacular schools by 2011 is a strategy to encourage the mastery of the English language through the transformation of the curriculum.

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