I'm neither in linguistics nor in education, but I was taught in SJKC. IMO no matter how good the teaching is, students need the motivation and environment to practice especially in speaking BM. Nowadays the demography in SJKC has skewed towards more non-Chinese students, so perhaps that helps.
I am a sjkc kid myself too. True, it's far too easy to stay in our own cultural bubble now compared to back then.
Not a educator nor linguist, but my experience as SJKC student is we don't really have enough exposure of the language usage, and also parent tend to want to send their kids oversea so their expectation is BM have limited use, and the kids also follow that sort of thinking. It wasn't the fault of the educator a lot of time, it's just the environment the person grow up with.
Yea. Younger parents nowadays, even Malays, pivot tpo much to English.I really wonder whether that's a good thing or not.
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