It’s Not Just About the Game: A Study on Attitudes and Motivation of Malaysian Secondary Sports School Students in East Malaysia towards Learning English as a Second Language

In the past few years, Malaysian athletes have gained international recognition with their impressive, world-record breaking accomplishments. As a result of this, Malaysian athletes are finding themselves being interviewed and giving speeches at local and international events. For professional athle...

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Main Authors:	Nursyaheedah, Muhammad Isa, Noor Azlinda, Zainal Abidin, Nabila, Abdul Malek, Mohamad Hazeem, Mohmad Sidik, Safirul Azli, Abu Bakar
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	EDP Sciences 2018
Subjects:	PE English
Online Access:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20835/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20835/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20835/1/It%E2%80%99s%20Not%20Just%20About%20the%20Game-cmlhs-2018.pdf

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spelling	ump-208352018-04-30T03:33:07Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20835/ It’s Not Just About the Game: A Study on Attitudes and Motivation of Malaysian Secondary Sports School Students in East Malaysia towards Learning English as a Second Language Nursyaheedah, Muhammad Isa Noor Azlinda, Zainal Abidin Nabila, Abdul Malek Mohamad Hazeem, Mohmad Sidik Safirul Azli, Abu Bakar PE English In the past few years, Malaysian athletes have gained international recognition with their impressive, world-record breaking accomplishments. As a result of this, Malaysian athletes are finding themselves being interviewed and giving speeches at local and international events. For professional athletes, there is a need and a duty to be able to communicate their stories and experiences as well as giving real insight and opinions about their performances, confidently, to both local and global audiences. In addressing these audiences, it is important for these professional athletes to be confident and are able to converse well using the English language, especially so when addressing a global audience. However, some Malaysian athletes are facing difficulties in communicating confidently and coherently, especially in English. It is a recognised and acknowledged skill gap in which is believed should be tackled during the formative school years. It is possible that the skill gap stems from a lack of motivation and poor attitude beginning from secondary school. This paper discusses the findings of a study undertaken to investigate these issues further by carrying out a questionnaire survey on the attitudes and motivation of Malaysian secondary sports school students in East Malaysia towards learning English as a second language. The study reveals an overall positive attitude towards learning English by the sports students. In addition, the findings reveal that the sports school students are extrinsically and intrinsically motivated in learning English. The study concludes with recommendations for future research and is expected to make a contribution to the literature of attitudes and motivation especially for but not limited to secondary sports school students. EDP Sciences 2018 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20835/1/It%E2%80%99s%20Not%20Just%20About%20the%20Game-cmlhs-2018.pdf Nursyaheedah, Muhammad Isa and Noor Azlinda, Zainal Abidin and Nabila, Abdul Malek and Mohamad Hazeem, Mohmad Sidik and Safirul Azli, Abu Bakar (2018) It’s Not Just About the Game: A Study on Attitudes and Motivation of Malaysian Secondary Sports School Students in East Malaysia towards Learning English as a Second Language. In: MATEC Web of Conferences: Malaysia Technical Universities Conference on Engineering and Technology (MUCET 2017), 6-7 December 2017 , Penang, Malaysia. pp. 1-7., 150 (05009). ISSN 2261-236X https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201815005009
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spellingShingle	PE English Nursyaheedah, Muhammad Isa Noor Azlinda, Zainal Abidin Nabila, Abdul Malek Mohamad Hazeem, Mohmad Sidik Safirul Azli, Abu Bakar It’s Not Just About the Game: A Study on Attitudes and Motivation of Malaysian Secondary Sports School Students in East Malaysia towards Learning English as a Second Language
description	In the past few years, Malaysian athletes have gained international recognition with their impressive, world-record breaking accomplishments. As a result of this, Malaysian athletes are finding themselves being interviewed and giving speeches at local and international events. For professional athletes, there is a need and a duty to be able to communicate their stories and experiences as well as giving real insight and opinions about their performances, confidently, to both local and global audiences. In addressing these audiences, it is important for these professional athletes to be confident and are able to converse well using the English language, especially so when addressing a global audience. However, some Malaysian athletes are facing difficulties in communicating confidently and coherently, especially in English. It is a recognised and acknowledged skill gap in which is believed should be tackled during the formative school years. It is possible that the skill gap stems from a lack of motivation and poor attitude beginning from secondary school. This paper discusses the findings of a study undertaken to investigate these issues further by carrying out a questionnaire survey on the attitudes and motivation of Malaysian secondary sports school students in East Malaysia towards learning English as a second language. The study reveals an overall positive attitude towards learning English by the sports students. In addition, the findings reveal that the sports school students are extrinsically and intrinsically motivated in learning English. The study concludes with recommendations for future research and is expected to make a contribution to the literature of attitudes and motivation especially for but not limited to secondary sports school students.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Nursyaheedah, Muhammad Isa Noor Azlinda, Zainal Abidin Nabila, Abdul Malek Mohamad Hazeem, Mohmad Sidik Safirul Azli, Abu Bakar
author_facet	Nursyaheedah, Muhammad Isa Noor Azlinda, Zainal Abidin Nabila, Abdul Malek Mohamad Hazeem, Mohmad Sidik Safirul Azli, Abu Bakar
author_sort	Nursyaheedah, Muhammad Isa
title	It’s Not Just About the Game: A Study on Attitudes and Motivation of Malaysian Secondary Sports School Students in East Malaysia towards Learning English as a Second Language
title_short	It’s Not Just About the Game: A Study on Attitudes and Motivation of Malaysian Secondary Sports School Students in East Malaysia towards Learning English as a Second Language
title_full	It’s Not Just About the Game: A Study on Attitudes and Motivation of Malaysian Secondary Sports School Students in East Malaysia towards Learning English as a Second Language
title_fullStr	It’s Not Just About the Game: A Study on Attitudes and Motivation of Malaysian Secondary Sports School Students in East Malaysia towards Learning English as a Second Language
title_full_unstemmed	It’s Not Just About the Game: A Study on Attitudes and Motivation of Malaysian Secondary Sports School Students in East Malaysia towards Learning English as a Second Language
title_sort	it’s not just about the game: a study on attitudes and motivation of malaysian secondary sports school students in east malaysia towards learning english as a second language
publisher	EDP Sciences
publishDate	2018
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20835/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20835/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20835/1/It%E2%80%99s%20Not%20Just%20About%20the%20Game-cmlhs-2018.pdf
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