Teaching and testing science subject in the English language: a case study of PMR students

This is a study to determine the different language skills employed by Form Three semi-urban school students in terms of scanning, skimming, locating information, predicting, understanding, sequencing, inferencing, and all the other related reading skills as listed in the Form Three Curriculum Specifications. The findings will provide an insight into the effectiveness of using either Bahasa Malaysia or English language by the Form Three students in learning and using their skills in answering the Science examination paper in their PMR examination. This insight study will also enable educationists and teachers to tailor special programmes and teaching strategies to help remedy students' weaknesses in improving the teaching and learning process of the Science subject and also to reaffirm the effectiveness of teaching the subject in the English language