Hello Malini, our matriculation colleges and form 6 still carry on with the ETEMS or PPSMI policy, and so science and math teachers teach fully in English.  I believe that ETEMS has some impact on students' confidence in speaking English.

Although ETEMS has been replaced by another education policy in schools, we still carry on with ETEMS.  I have observed that our recent students do not have the same good command of English as students of earlier batches (who had ETEMS in school.  (But I am surprised that despite ETEMS, our school students in school did not perform very well in PISA 2009, 2012.  I believe that we should benchmark SIngapore and/or Shanghai, China where students perform well in PISA.)

Very interesting question! Please see attached conference paper for teaching students who need to code switch from "Creole" to English in a secondary classroom in Mauritius in order to pass their exams written in English.

Many thanks,

Debra

Conference Paper Social Media in Education: Bringing Your Classroom to Life -...

You must love the students and English language teaching must give his lecture by explanation and presentation in the English language

Dear all,

Thank you very much for all your brilliant feedback. Have any of you used Multiliteracies  to teach English ?

When you say multiliteracies, do you include in your meaning mathematical literacy, diagrammatic literacy, visual literacy etc? For me this is an interesting question because it involves multiple modes of knowing and how learners can relate them to each other/combine them to deepen their understanding of concepts.

Yes Joy. Multiliteracies can be applied in any discipline and focus is on the multimodal meaning making concepts.

Hi Malini

This discipline increases students' cognitive competence. For example, more awareness of cultures, contexts, contents and other strategies. I hope it helps! 

HI Arif,

Indeed as the learning element takes into account of all these aspects. Thus learning becomes interesting and engaging.

with continous simple practise