{"id":1531,"date":"2019-06-19T15:06:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T07:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:17:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T07:17:31","slug":"teacher-did-you-really-send-this-report-to-the-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/teacher-did-you-really-send-this-report-to-the-principal\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher, did you really send this report to the principal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I taught form 4 students directed writing<\/a>.\u00a0 One of the types is Article or Report.\u00a0 The formal article normally looks like a report to complain or make suggestion to people with authority.\u00a0 When I gave this example of article to the students, it caused a little bit uproar and chaos as they finished reading it.\u00a0 What a day!\u00a0 \u00a0For obvious reason, I did not submit this report to the principal though \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

To<\/strong>: Principal of SABK Madrasah Al Attas<\/span><\/p>\n

Date:<\/strong> 17 September 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong> Reasons for students lack of motivation among Form 4 students to learn English<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, a survey was conducted to find out reasons for Form 4 students\u2019 lack of motivation to learn English.\u00a0 The survey was conducted among 50 students of all Form 4 students.\u00a0 Other than quantitative survey, some of the students were interviewed to get more insight about their lack of motivation in learning.\u00a0 The results of the survey demonstrated that there are three main reasons for the students\u2019 lack of interest in learning English.<\/span><\/p>\n

Firstly, the students do not have the right attitude towards learning.\u00a0 They are not keen to participate in classroom activities conducted by teachers during lesson and some of them would rather fall asleep throughout the learning sessions.\u00a0 Those who were interviewed feel that classroom activities do not help them to understand the materials discussed and thus, they have difficulty to stay focused and stay awake during lesson.\u00a0 They also commented that most of the time, they feel bored with the activities conducted in class and do not feel the importance to participate in those activities conducted.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Secondly, English is perceived as colonial language and has less value as compared to Arabic language.\u00a0 Thus, learning English is considered as less important as compared to learning Arabic language.\u00a0 The students feel that it is more important for them to master Arabic language as compared to English language due to this skewed conception of importance of both languages.\u00a0 Due to this, most of them feel that there are no needs to complete the homework exercise on English subject even though they are prompted by their English language teachers numerous times to complete and submit their homework on time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Thirdly, some parents of the students do not emphasise the importance of English language mastery as compared to Arabic language.\u00a0 The lack of emphasis by parents inadvertently strengthen their children\u2019s belief and value of English language.\u00a0 For those who sincerely believed that English language is not as important as Arabic language, they do not invest in buying reference or exercise books in English for their children.\u00a0 The lack of parental support makes it difficult for the students to have more positive outlook on English language and thus, the students feel that it is acceptable to get below average grade for English.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is unfortunate that these reasons become deterrent for the students to enhance their English language proficiency.\u00a0 The following suggestions should be able to encourage interest in English language among students if implemented accordingly.\u00a0 The first way is that teachers should stress the importance of learning various languages and mastery of various subjects as preparation for the future, not for examination per se.\u00a0 This can be done in many ways whether unofficially or officially through various activities.\u00a0 Secondly, the school can invite alumni who are successful in various fields due to their language proficiency especially in English.\u00a0 For example, an alumnus who has a PhD from a western university could serves as an example of a former student who had studied at this school could be proficient in various languages such as English, Arabic and Malay.\u00a0 Lastly, the school can organize an event where parents can meet various alumni with various professions that would allow them to interact and ask questions about various career prospects of individuals with various language proficiency.\u00a0 These suggestions would help to enhance students and their parents\u2019 positive perception on English language.\u00a0 [555 words<\/em>]<\/span><\/p>\n

Prepared by:\u00a0 Hadijah Jaffri<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I taught form 4 students directed writing.\u00a0 One of the types is Article or Report.\u00a0 The formal article normally looks like a report to complain or make suggestion to people with authority.\u00a0 When I gave this example of article to the students, it caused a little bit uproar and chaos as they finished reading it.\u00a0 … Continue reading Teacher, did you really send this report to the principal?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-rambling","category-teaching","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}