Attitudes of rural upper secondary school students towards learning English as a second language (ESL) in Sarawak / Noraine Jamil

Attitudes of rural upper secondary school students towards learning English as a second language (ESL) in Sarawak / Noraine Jamil

In particular, the study was designed to investigate and explore rural upper secondary students' attitudes towards learning English as a second language with regards to the contents of the attitude, context and individual variable in Sarawak. In addition, the study also sought to explore the re...

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Main Author: Jamil, Noraine
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Sarawak (Malaysia)
PE English language
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14067/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14067/1/TM_NORAINE%20JAMIL%20ED%2015_5.pdf
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spelling uitm-140672016-06-13T06:24:45Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14067/ Attitudes of rural upper secondary school students towards learning English as a second language (ESL) in Sarawak / Noraine Jamil Jamil, Noraine Sarawak (Malaysia) PE English language In particular, the study was designed to investigate and explore rural upper secondary students' attitudes towards learning English as a second language with regards to the contents of the attitude, context and individual variable in Sarawak. In addition, the study also sought to explore the relative significance of the language attitudes thus identified. Mixed- method was chosen with the implementation of cross-sectional survey and semi structured interviews. Cluster sampling set out with a total of 70 Form 4 students from 3 selected rural secondary schools in Sarawak. Data obtained was analysed by using SPSS software while the interviews were transcribed to refine the findings. The findings from this study indicated that the students have an excellent knowledge on the importance of English language even though they agreed that their mother tongue/ first language interfere when they speak English. In addition, study also discovered the relative significance of the language attitudes thus identified as the result indicated that the irregular use of English also related to the uncertainty of the thoughts about learning English as a second language. Keywords: Attitude; Rural; Upper secondary students; ESL 2015 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14067/1/TM_NORAINE%20JAMIL%20ED%2015_5.pdf Jamil, Noraine (2015) Attitudes of rural upper secondary school students towards learning English as a second language (ESL) in Sarawak / Noraine Jamil. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA.
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PE English language
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PE English language
Jamil, Noraine
Attitudes of rural upper secondary school students towards learning English as a second language (ESL) in Sarawak / Noraine Jamil
description In particular, the study was designed to investigate and explore rural upper secondary students' attitudes towards learning English as a second language with regards to the contents of the attitude, context and individual variable in Sarawak. In addition, the study also sought to explore the relative significance of the language attitudes thus identified. Mixed- method was chosen with the implementation of cross-sectional survey and semi structured interviews. Cluster sampling set out with a total of 70 Form 4 students from 3 selected rural secondary schools in Sarawak. Data obtained was analysed by using SPSS software while the interviews were transcribed to refine the findings. The findings from this study indicated that the students have an excellent knowledge on the importance of English language even though they agreed that their mother tongue/ first language interfere when they speak English. In addition, study also discovered the relative significance of the language attitudes thus identified as the result indicated that the irregular use of English also related to the uncertainty of the thoughts about learning English as a second language. Keywords: Attitude; Rural; Upper secondary students; ESL
format Thesis
author Jamil, Noraine
author_facet Jamil, Noraine
author_sort Jamil, Noraine
title Attitudes of rural upper secondary school students towards learning English as a second language (ESL) in Sarawak / Noraine Jamil
title_short Attitudes of rural upper secondary school students towards learning English as a second language (ESL) in Sarawak / Noraine Jamil
title_full Attitudes of rural upper secondary school students towards learning English as a second language (ESL) in Sarawak / Noraine Jamil
title_fullStr Attitudes of rural upper secondary school students towards learning English as a second language (ESL) in Sarawak / Noraine Jamil
title_full_unstemmed Attitudes of rural upper secondary school students towards learning English as a second language (ESL) in Sarawak / Noraine Jamil
title_sort attitudes of rural upper secondary school students towards learning english as a second language (esl) in sarawak / noraine jamil
publishDate 2015
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14067/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14067/1/TM_NORAINE%20JAMIL%20ED%2015_5.pdf
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