Grammar matters more than phonetics

I WISH to refer to the letter by Liong Kam Chong “Stress on grammar, not phonics” (The Star, March 24) and I fully endorse the views expressed.

One has to question these decision makers in the Education Ministry who come up with such ideas in trying to import a whole bunch of foreign teachers to teach Malaysians to “pronounce English words as spoken by native speakers” and at what cost to the taxpayer?