Chinese Students are not Smart - Prof. Datuk Dr. Teo Kok Seong of UKM

 

Another University Kebangsaan Malaysia Lecturer has hit the headlines for saying stupid things.

Here are extracts from the Sin Chew Daily.

A Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) professor is currently under fire for something he said recently concerning Chinese school students.

“These Chinese students studying in Chinese schools are not very smart. Although the school teaches 3 languages, they are only good at their mother tongue. They are not very good at English or Malay,” he said. LINK and LINK.

Union Reception - Neuroscience news - Part 3

 

This is my final email to Prof. Taeko. All 3 of my emails did not receive a reply from her. Some professors in the past, prior to 2017, told me that they stand on what they had published but in the case of Prof Taeko there has been no reply at all. 

Dear Professor,

Let me think aloud on a few more points on phonological awareness being the cause of DD.

In the reports you sent it was reported:

 

Makita first claimed through his nationwide survey that, in Japan, less than 0.1 % of children had a reading disability.

Significantly, in Japan, there are very few reported cases of children with reading impairments only.

 

Very interesting news find – A must-read for all.

                                                       

I surfed the net to see if I could find newspaper articles on dyslexic children in Japan and I chanced upon the following article about a dyslexic Australian boy in Japan.

 

The article is dated 10th July 1999. That was 10 years ago. You can read the full article here.

I have copied some of the salient points: