My next point is: why don't we learn from what other education systems are doing? It is not as though we are the only country in the world that has a 'bilingual' system (contrary to what some people seem to think).
For example, we could look at how Malaysians learn English and/or Mandarin. I know many Malaysians who studied most of their subjects in Bahasa Melayu but are proficient in English and/or Mandarin (in some cases, more so than Singaporeans...).
Or non-English-speaking European countries where people learn English. The Dutch priests in our church speak very good English (definitely much better than many Singaporeans) and, surely, English was not their first language. Perhaps someone can go ask them how they did it. We also have an Indonesian priest who speaks English like it is his first language. I know he studied overseas but I believe that was only in his uni days. How did he do it?
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