I Don't Kechek Melayu
I don't use Malay with my students ... though it takes me all that I have just to send a simple message to them. When I started teaching in my school, my students could barely differentiate 'class monitor' and 'class teacher'. It took me a while to make students understand the difference. Yeah, it took me a while for I was explaining the difference in English, not in their native language, Malay. As I am an English teacher, the first English specialist that the school has ever had, I try to bold my presence in school by bringing in some changes. The most apparent change is the usage of only-English as the medium of interaction between students and English teachers. The first time the only-English being implemented, there was not a lot of problems except that teachers were required to constantly exercise their para-linguistics features besides having to simplify their English to suit students' proficiency level . However, after a few months, as wh