Category Archives: Teaching English in Malaysia

Unhappiness over foreign teachers only rule

Typically for these kinds of situations, it’s the Malaysian government rather the British Council who are responsible for completely excluding Malaysian citizens from a new(ish) mentoring scheme. Story in The Star Online here.

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Another reason not to jump on the CLIL bandwagon?

“in 1999 a…study by Dr. Allan Bernardo of De La Salle University investigated the effects of different learner and instructional factors on solving arithmetic word problems among grade school students. The results showed better comprehension and solution performance when the … Continue reading

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