Education in Malaysia: Multilingual, bilingual, or monolingual?

In: Asian thought & society: an international review, Band 18, Heft 52, S. 44-56

Abstract

The Malays, Chinese and Indians are the three identifiable major groups in Malaysia. In spite of the government's effort to create a just society for all people in Malaysia, there are some observed tensions existing among various groups in terms of the social practices a whole. A case in point is their educational system. The article highlights the problems of the educational system with special reference to the language problem. (DÜI-Sen)