Factors contributing to students performance in writing among form three students (IR)

This research was conducted to identify factors that contribute to the students?performance in writing. Three research questions were formulated namely, what are the factors that hinder students? performance in writing, what are the factors that help students to write compositions in English, and wh...

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Main Author:	Sasigaran Moneyam
Format:	thesis
Language:	eng
Published:	2011
Subjects:	LB Theory and practice of education
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spelling	oai:ir.upsi.edu.my:3512020-02-27 Factors contributing to students performance in writing among form three students (IR) 2011 Sasigaran Moneyam LB Theory and practice of education This research was conducted to identify factors that contribute to the students?performance in writing. Three research questions were formulated namely, what are the factors that hinder students? performance in writing, what are the factors that help students to write compositions in English, and what are the perceptions of students? towards writing compositions in English. The participants were fifteen (15) Form Three students of a selected private religious school in the district of Tanjung Malim, Perak. The students were selected based on preliminary observations, discussion with the teacher, analysis of previous examination results and pre-test. Participant observation, field notes, focus group interviews, questionnaires for both teacher and students, and content analysis were conducted for the purpose of data collection. Data collected from questionnaires was analysed using statistic software, SPSS 18.0, to obtain the mean and standard deviation of responses of the students and the teacher. Content analysis was carried out to analyse information collected through classroom observations, field notes,students? written compositions, and interviews? transcripts. Analyses of the data paved way for the emergence of two main categories of factors, promoting factors and inhibiting factors respectively. Under these categories, four aspects namely, writing performance; strategies, methods and approaches; influence of first,second and foreign language; and, students? beliefs and efficacy were identified to be contributing to students? performance in writing. Findings revealed that these factors played an important role to hinder students? performance in writing and also in helping the students to write compositions in English. 2011 thesis https://ir.upsi.edu.my/detailsg.php?det=351 https://ir.upsi.edu.my/detailsg.php?det=351 text eng closedAccess Masters Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris Fakulti Bahasa dan Komunikasi N/A
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description	This research was conducted to identify factors that contribute to the students?performance in writing. Three research questions were formulated namely, what are the factors that hinder students? performance in writing, what are the factors that help students to write compositions in English, and what are the perceptions of students? towards writing compositions in English. The participants were fifteen (15) Form Three students of a selected private religious school in the district of Tanjung Malim, Perak. The students were selected based on preliminary observations, discussion with the teacher, analysis of previous examination results and pre-test. Participant observation, field notes, focus group interviews, questionnaires for both teacher and students, and content analysis were conducted for the purpose of data collection. Data collected from questionnaires was analysed using statistic software, SPSS 18.0, to obtain the mean and standard deviation of responses of the students and the teacher. Content analysis was carried out to analyse information collected through classroom observations, field notes,students? written compositions, and interviews? transcripts. Analyses of the data paved way for the emergence of two main categories of factors, promoting factors and inhibiting factors respectively. Under these categories, four aspects namely, writing performance; strategies, methods and approaches; influence of first,second and foreign language; and, students? beliefs and efficacy were identified to be contributing to students? performance in writing. Findings revealed that these factors played an important role to hinder students? performance in writing and also in helping the students to write compositions in English.
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