Beliefs of Bangsamoro Madaris Learners About Language Learning and their Relationship with Academic Performance

This study investigated the beliefs about language learning of 100 Bangsamoro Madaris learners in Southern Philippines. The survey instrument, ‘Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory’ or BALLI (Horwitz 1987) which included 34 items on a Likert-type scale, was used to collect data on the learners’...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Abdullah Karim, Kurais
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English English
Published:	2008
Subjects:	Languages - Bangsamoro Madaris
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5568/1/FPP_2008_27.pdf
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

id	my-upm-ir.5568
record_format	uketd_dc
spelling	my-upm-ir.55682013-05-27T07:23:46Z Beliefs of Bangsamoro Madaris Learners About Language Learning and their Relationship with Academic Performance 2008-10 Abdullah Karim, Kurais This study investigated the beliefs about language learning of 100 Bangsamoro Madaris learners in Southern Philippines. The survey instrument, ‘Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory’ or BALLI (Horwitz 1987) which included 34 items on a Likert-type scale, was used to collect data on the learners’ beliefs about English language learning. The primary aim was to describe their beliefs about English language learning, which to date, has remained unexplored. The second aim was to explore the relationship between their beliefs and academic performance represented by their final grades in English subject in order to provide empirical backing of the relationship, otherwise lacking in beliefs literature (Peacock, 1999). Aside from that, the beliefs of the respondents towards Arabic language learning were gathered using a modified BALLI in order to compare their beliefs about Arabic language learning to their beliefs about English language learning. Findings of the descriptive analysis on the responses to BALLI statements indicate several firmly held beliefs among the respondents with varying degrees of validity.Some of the beliefs identified having important teaching implications are the importance given to excellent pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. Respondents are also highly motivated and optimistic. The Pearson Product Moment correlation analysis between the beliefs and the final scores indicates relationship in five belief items, two of which different from previous studies (Peacock, 1999) which supports to the context specificity of beliefs. Finally, nine out of 21 statements compared in BALLI English and BALLI Arabic through t-tests are found significantly different, providing more evidence of the influence of social and cultural contexts in shaping beliefs. Languages - Bangsamoro Madaris 2008-10 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5568/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5568/1/FPP_2008_27.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Languages - Bangsamoro Madaris Educational Studies English
institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
collection	PSAS Institutional Repository
language	English English
topic	Languages - Bangsamoro Madaris
spellingShingle	Languages - Bangsamoro Madaris Abdullah Karim, Kurais Beliefs of Bangsamoro Madaris Learners About Language Learning and their Relationship with Academic Performance
description	This study investigated the beliefs about language learning of 100 Bangsamoro Madaris learners in Southern Philippines. The survey instrument, ‘Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory’ or BALLI (Horwitz 1987) which included 34 items on a Likert-type scale, was used to collect data on the learners’ beliefs about English language learning. The primary aim was to describe their beliefs about English language learning, which to date, has remained unexplored. The second aim was to explore the relationship between their beliefs and academic performance represented by their final grades in English subject in order to provide empirical backing of the relationship, otherwise lacking in beliefs literature (Peacock, 1999). Aside from that, the beliefs of the respondents towards Arabic language learning were gathered using a modified BALLI in order to compare their beliefs about Arabic language learning to their beliefs about English language learning. Findings of the descriptive analysis on the responses to BALLI statements indicate several firmly held beliefs among the respondents with varying degrees of validity.Some of the beliefs identified having important teaching implications are the importance given to excellent pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. Respondents are also highly motivated and optimistic. The Pearson Product Moment correlation analysis between the beliefs and the final scores indicates relationship in five belief items, two of which different from previous studies (Peacock, 1999) which supports to the context specificity of beliefs. Finally, nine out of 21 statements compared in BALLI English and BALLI Arabic through t-tests are found significantly different, providing more evidence of the influence of social and cultural contexts in shaping beliefs.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Abdullah Karim, Kurais
author_facet	Abdullah Karim, Kurais
author_sort	Abdullah Karim, Kurais
title	Beliefs of Bangsamoro Madaris Learners About Language Learning and their Relationship with Academic Performance
title_short	Beliefs of Bangsamoro Madaris Learners About Language Learning and their Relationship with Academic Performance
title_full	Beliefs of Bangsamoro Madaris Learners About Language Learning and their Relationship with Academic Performance
title_fullStr	Beliefs of Bangsamoro Madaris Learners About Language Learning and their Relationship with Academic Performance
title_full_unstemmed	Beliefs of Bangsamoro Madaris Learners About Language Learning and their Relationship with Academic Performance
title_sort	beliefs of bangsamoro madaris learners about language learning and their relationship with academic performance
granting_institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
granting_department	Educational Studies
publishDate	2008
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5568/1/FPP_2008_27.pdf
_version_	1747810452834877440

Beliefs of Bangsamoro Madaris Learners About Language Learning and their Relationship with Academic Performance

Similar Items