There are three main ethinc groups in Malaysia, there are Malays, indigenous, Chinese, and Indians. The Malay trying to put Englsih into Malay pre-university classes because of the prosperous of global education. Employers from multinational firms are interested in recruiting those who have professional skills and a linguistic ability to connect with the rest of the world.
However, some of nationalistic citizen think that the direct transfer of English syntactic patterns into Malay will "pollution"by grammarians and Malay English teachers. Fortunatel, the nationl leaders and language planners realize that people should chose English education tend to be benefit more than those who are not. Students in Malay should not be influenced by the attitude of the nationalistic group to the English language.
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Do you think that this is the case in other languages as well? Previously colonized nations have some sort of a language identity crisis which made policy makers think of integrating English into their country's systems. In the case of India for example, there are hundreds of languages spoken but English is used as the official language.
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