Improving language acquistion and motivation in learning English as a second language through journal writing / Mohd Zulfahmi Ab Salam

Education in Malaysia has been exam-oriented for so long. Therefore, students are rarely exposed to the “creative” and “intuitive” style of writing. They are taught to be adapted to the more formulaic style of writing. As a result, most view the process of writing as boring and hard and thus they...

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Main Author:	Ab Salam, Mohd Zulfahmi
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2010
Subjects:	Motivation in education. Interest. Attention Malaysia
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14498/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14498/1/TD_MOHD%20ZULFAHMI%20AB%20SALAM%20ED%2010_5.pdf

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spelling	uitm-144982016-08-03T09:32:05Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14498/ Improving language acquistion and motivation in learning English as a second language through journal writing / Mohd Zulfahmi Ab Salam Ab Salam, Mohd Zulfahmi Motivation in education. Interest. Attention Malaysia Education in Malaysia has been exam-oriented for so long. Therefore, students are rarely exposed to the “creative” and “intuitive” style of writing. They are taught to be adapted to the more formulaic style of writing. As a result, most view the process of writing as boring and hard and thus they are reluctant to learn and improve. Journal writing has been proven by previous studies to be effective in enhancing students’ language acquisition and motivation to learn. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the effectiveness of journal writing in language development, especially English. This study examined how journal writing can be used a tool to improve second language acquisition and enhance the motivation to improve in language skills – preferably writing. The respondents were ten Form 2 students. Through out the research period, the respondents were required to answer surveys at the beginning and at the end of the research, write variety types of journals (personal, literary and dialogue) and those journals were assessed using a rubric adopted from a previous study of the same area. Modeling was also applied during the process of writing. 2010 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14498/1/TD_MOHD%20ZULFAHMI%20AB%20SALAM%20ED%2010_5.pdf Ab Salam, Mohd Zulfahmi (2010) Improving language acquistion and motivation in learning English as a second language through journal writing / Mohd Zulfahmi Ab Salam. Degree thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA.
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description	Education in Malaysia has been exam-oriented for so long. Therefore, students are rarely exposed to the “creative” and “intuitive” style of writing. They are taught to be adapted to the more formulaic style of writing. As a result, most view the process of writing as boring and hard and thus they are reluctant to learn and improve. Journal writing has been proven by previous studies to be effective in enhancing students’ language acquisition and motivation to learn. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the effectiveness of journal writing in language development, especially English. This study examined how journal writing can be used a tool to improve second language acquisition and enhance the motivation to improve in language skills – preferably writing. The respondents were ten Form 2 students. Through out the research period, the respondents were required to answer surveys at the beginning and at the end of the research, write variety types of journals (personal, literary and dialogue) and those journals were assessed using a rubric adopted from a previous study of the same area. Modeling was also applied during the process of writing.
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title	Improving language acquistion and motivation in learning English as a second language through journal writing / Mohd Zulfahmi Ab Salam
title_short	Improving language acquistion and motivation in learning English as a second language through journal writing / Mohd Zulfahmi Ab Salam
title_full	Improving language acquistion and motivation in learning English as a second language through journal writing / Mohd Zulfahmi Ab Salam
title_fullStr	Improving language acquistion and motivation in learning English as a second language through journal writing / Mohd Zulfahmi Ab Salam
title_full_unstemmed	Improving language acquistion and motivation in learning English as a second language through journal writing / Mohd Zulfahmi Ab Salam
title_sort	improving language acquistion and motivation in learning english as a second language through journal writing / mohd zulfahmi ab salam
publishDate	2010
url	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14498/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14498/1/TD_MOHD%20ZULFAHMI%20AB%20SALAM%20ED%2010_5.pdf
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Improving language acquistion and motivation in learning English as a second language through journal writing / Mohd Zulfahmi Ab Salam

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