'Talking Sabah!'

In collaboration with Visual Culture Society (VCS), English Language Society (ELS) of Keningau Vocational College managed to organize a field trip to watch the live English language theater performance.

This is the second time in the same year the college students had organized the excursion

Sabah leading the way in enhancing English: Yap

Published on: Sunday, June 09, 2013

Kota Kinabalu: Thumbs-up to the State Education Department for having taken the steps to implement the Education Blueprint (2013-2025) from the perspective of enhancing the proficiency of English teachers.

‘Past best practices’ incorporated in teaching English in schools

KOTA KINABALU: Newly-appointed Deputy Education Minister Datuk Mary Yap has suggested that “past best practices’, including prioritising aspects of grammar be incorporated into school teac

hing methods for the English language.

She opined that there was a need to bring back proven best practices to improve the standard of English in schools.

Mary said the Education Ministry was aware of the issue of the English Language, which had been constantly debated in the media, particularly the unfavourable results on English proficiency in the Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) examination.

“That’s why the Ministry of Education is seriously looking into ways and means to address this issue in line with the government’s transformation programme.

'Jerangkap Syaitan'

In ESL (English Language Society), we always give our full support for the activities conducted by the other clubs in our college. Recently, Nadine Fae (5PPN) and Carl's Evert (4BK) performed a poetry entitled 'Jerangkap Syaitan' (Devil's Ploy). The one day poet competition organized by our club sister, Malay Language Society, is centralizing on drugs abuse.

And guess what? They got the FIRST place!

We're proficient in English, and excellent in Malay. Jealous much?

Keep the torch burning!

"Keep the torch burning!" acclaimed the Director on the official college's group. 

Thanks to the mantra, the debate angels who were so down initially upon knowing that they didn't make it after competing with the national debaters (from SM All Saints), are now thrilled to pursue their passion.

What doesnt kill us makes us stronger!

The 'Master-Chef' Inspired Performance Wins a Runner-up!

             

At the division level theatre competition, our college emerged 2nd place from 13 school from various interior districts. We also won 'Best Script' award. Congrats to all lecturers and students involved to make this a reality. 

Strike a Pose!

The English Language Society (ELS) in collaboration with the College Library was proud to organize ‘Strike a Pose!’ photo-shoot session. The event had tested the students’ creativity in promoting Keningau College Library as the knowledge source. It was also in conjunction with the National Reading Month.

Enhancement and amazing activities were being executed with the aims to encourage reading and to expose students to different divisions in the library which sometimes were overlooked. The deeds would cultivate students’ interest in reading as well as empower the college’s library as the hotspot to gain knowledge.

There are two challenges:
1) Imitating the Poses on Book Covers.