Gerakan said today that primary schools should not switch to English for the teaching of Science and Mathematics and should instead take other steps to improve the command of the language among students.

The party is the first of the five Chinese-based component parties in Barisan Nasional to state an official stand on the controversial language switch, after a two-hour central committee meeting this morning at the Gerakan headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

Gerakan president Dr Lim Keng Yaik said studies have shown that a student must first establish a basic command in mother-tongue and use it to learn basic concepts before learning Science and Maths in a second language at a later stage.

Should the language switch be implemented now, there will be "serious problems" for all the primary schools, he said.

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