Saturday, June 15, 2019
ESSAY WRITING: The challenges in using English in Malaysia
People who acquire excel in English language are given a lot
of advantages. Even though English is not a main daily language in Malaysia,
but English is very important since it provided mass distribution compared to
other languages not only in education, entertainment, marketing trade and also
our country’s economic growth. However, we cannot deny the fact that English
usage in Malaysia was oversimplified for some duration of times.
Being a Malaysian, with Bahasa Melayu as the national
language of more than half citizens in the country could contribute to the
challenges in practicing the English language in Malaysia. This is because,
they are rather comfortable to converse in their own mother tongue language than
using English for the reason that the language is not being used predominantly
as their own colloquial. Though there are certain groups especially youth who
familiarized themselves with English in daily uses but it was tainted still
with ‘Manglish’ terms so the usage of proper English itself is limited.
Besides, the reason why using English become a challenge in
Malaysia because the native speakers are lacking of assurance and confidence in
using the language. For instance, some of them are embarrassed of their low
language proficiency in English so it takes them quite a real bear to actually
use the language neither in public nor privately. Not only that, they also are
verily worried about making grammatical errors and pronunciation mistakes
because they feared of getting taunted by some typical language shaming troop
in the community.
Of course, there are also some old-fashioned mindset who
presume that using English is not important compared to the national language
itself and this factor has become one of the challenges in using English in
Malaysia. Some of the local consider that English language is irrelevant to be
used as they inclined to think that spoken English would give them no gain since
everyone is conversing in own mother tongue language between each other
regardless where they are. Indeed, they also thought that English language is
just another subject to pass and it has no necessity to be practiced in the
future.
Written by;
Layyinna Zul Iman / 2019
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