(reddit MY is taken over by reactionaries so I run here)
So, BM. Lots of noise. People say because lack of love/lack of patriotism etc. But nobody considered that it might be poorly taught!
So, guys, especially if you are in linguistics and education, how do you see this? Is BM poorly taught in SJKs, and is a more systemic, holistic “game plan” needed? (pedagogy is the word I think?)
Maybe create a new discipline out of this?
I’m neither in linguistics nor in education, but I was taught in SJKC. IMO no matter how good the teaching is, students need the motivation and environment to practice especially in speaking BM. Nowadays the demography in SJKC has skewed towards more non-Chinese students, so perhaps that helps.
I am a sjkc kid myself too. True, it’s far too easy to stay in our own cultural bubble now compared to back then.