Weaknesses in English writing skills in S.K. Kampung Balan Dalat Mukah Sarawak / Ayu Bohari

This paper aims to present the findings of a research on weaknesses in English Language in the SK Kampung Balan, Dalat pupils focuses on writing skills. The focus of analysis in divided into three aspects, namely, language used, discourse and conceptualization. In language used, the focus is on sent...

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Main Author: Bohari, Ayu
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spelling my-uitm-ir.965092024-06-12T23:50:15Z Weaknesses in English writing skills in S.K. Kampung Balan Dalat Mukah Sarawak / Ayu Bohari 2015 Bohari, Ayu Primary Education English language This paper aims to present the findings of a research on weaknesses in English Language in the SK Kampung Balan, Dalat pupils focuses on writing skills. The focus of analysis in divided into three aspects, namely, language used, discourse and conceptualization. In language used, the focus is on sentences structure, dialect usage and punctuation while discourse looks at interesting phrases. The ideas in the writing are evaluated holistically by looking at the clarity, maturity and relevance of ideas presented. The respondents of this research are selected collectively from questionnaire, one essay writing, self evaluation of pupils. These methodologies are used to find out pupil’s weakness in writing skills. In conclusion, this research will find out the factors that influence pupil’s writing skills and their poor presentation in their writing test. The total number of respondents is 38 pupils. Generally, the finding of the research show that the writing weakness of the pupils ia at dissatisfactory level. There is a statistically significant different between the pupils achievement. Highest min of 17.68 and only min of 12.42 shows pupil’s lack of interest in learning to write. These result suggest that writing achievement in English Language are at the unsatisfactory level and need a lot of effort to overcome the problems both to pupils and teachers. Although this study was limited in its scope, the results do suggest that considerable investment in all areas should be verify without any delay to overcome the pupil’s weakness in the language concern. 2015 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/96509/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/96509/1/96509.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sarawak Faculty of Education
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
topic Primary Education
English language
spellingShingle Primary Education
English language
Bohari, Ayu
Weaknesses in English writing skills in S.K. Kampung Balan Dalat Mukah Sarawak / Ayu Bohari
description This paper aims to present the findings of a research on weaknesses in English Language in the SK Kampung Balan, Dalat pupils focuses on writing skills. The focus of analysis in divided into three aspects, namely, language used, discourse and conceptualization. In language used, the focus is on sentences structure, dialect usage and punctuation while discourse looks at interesting phrases. The ideas in the writing are evaluated holistically by looking at the clarity, maturity and relevance of ideas presented. The respondents of this research are selected collectively from questionnaire, one essay writing, self evaluation of pupils. These methodologies are used to find out pupil’s weakness in writing skills. In conclusion, this research will find out the factors that influence pupil’s writing skills and their poor presentation in their writing test. The total number of respondents is 38 pupils. Generally, the finding of the research show that the writing weakness of the pupils ia at dissatisfactory level. There is a statistically significant different between the pupils achievement. Highest min of 17.68 and only min of 12.42 shows pupil’s lack of interest in learning to write. These result suggest that writing achievement in English Language are at the unsatisfactory level and need a lot of effort to overcome the problems both to pupils and teachers. Although this study was limited in its scope, the results do suggest that considerable investment in all areas should be verify without any delay to overcome the pupil’s weakness in the language concern.
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author Bohari, Ayu
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title Weaknesses in English writing skills in S.K. Kampung Balan Dalat Mukah Sarawak / Ayu Bohari
title_short Weaknesses in English writing skills in S.K. Kampung Balan Dalat Mukah Sarawak / Ayu Bohari
title_full Weaknesses in English writing skills in S.K. Kampung Balan Dalat Mukah Sarawak / Ayu Bohari
title_fullStr Weaknesses in English writing skills in S.K. Kampung Balan Dalat Mukah Sarawak / Ayu Bohari
title_full_unstemmed Weaknesses in English writing skills in S.K. Kampung Balan Dalat Mukah Sarawak / Ayu Bohari
title_sort weaknesses in english writing skills in s.k. kampung balan dalat mukah sarawak / ayu bohari
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sarawak
granting_department Faculty of Education
publishDate 2015
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/96509/1/96509.pdf
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