This is what my Industrial Engineering lecturer wrote after the test 1:
"Dear class,
Ever since I graded your recent test, I could not help but to feel disappointed with the performance.
I have been wanting to say this; …."It seems that my lectures are merely exercises in futility and self gratification…."
If you have trouble understanding that, its OK. I am not expecting you to.
See the problem here? We don’t talk and understand each other at the same wavelength.
I am sorry to say that I cannot make the lectures more interesting than it is right now, neither I can change my style of speaking and delivering lectures.
What I feel is happening is, you are accustomed with the lecturing style in Bahasa mixed with English. I cannot do that due to the fact that:
a) no one else in the world can understand you if you speak Bahasa mixed with English except Malaysians
b) By starting to speak in Bahasa mixed with English, I am compromising my own fluency in English AND also Bahasa. " continued~~
P/S:
I strongly agree with what lecturer has commented. Lecturer from local university used to teach in Bahasa mixed with English; or they even teach in fully Bahasa (except the specific term). This is a problem. Especially, for me, who is from chinese background and speak chinese and dialects in daily life. (The point i am writing here is also about sharing and improving matter...xD...worrying~)
Lecturers teach in Bahasa, not because of they are weak in English, but they realise that students can't understand the lecture when they is teaching in fully English.
Feedbacks from employers handling interview session," Employers always request the employees who have high english level as the basic entry requirement to get into the jobs." They need the one who good in communication skills. Communication through presentation and writing is surely in English. No one from foreign country will understand when you speak in Bahasa.
However, when is the point to change? Students suppose have to learn and catch up what they are weak in, right? I think lecturer should think in the same way.
