Using short stories to enchance English speaking skills of year three Tamil school pupils : a case study
This study was aimed to investigate how short stories assist Year Three Tamil schoolpupils to enhance their English speaking skills. Besides that, it was also conducted toinvestigate how these short stories help Year Three Tamil school pupils to enrich their Englishvocabulary in speaking. Qualitativ...
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| Format: | thesis |
| Language: | eng |
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2019
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| Summary: | This study was aimed to investigate how short stories assist Year Three Tamil schoolpupils to enhance their English speaking skills. Besides that, it was also conducted toinvestigate how these short stories help Year Three Tamil school pupils to enrich their Englishvocabulary in speaking. Qualitative approach with descriptive case study design was used tocollect the data for this study. Four participants consisting of two boys and two girls wereselected based on their oral assessment tests. Four short stories such as Si Tanggang theUngrateful Son, Midas Touch, Pinocchio and Thumbelina, with different culturalbackground and genres were chosen and used in this study. These short stories were simple andwritten from the perspective of the pupils that provide positive and appropriate socialbehaviour and moral values. The data collection tools used were observation notes,questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Questionnaire and semi-structured interviews wereconducted not only to gather information on the participants involved but also to collect data.Video recording was one of the vital tool used in this study. It has been done to recordparticipants feedback and bodily-based behaviour as it allows better understanding of thedifferent aspects surrounding the problem under investigation. The information gathered from theinstruments was further analysed and triangulated to report the phenomena in a narrativeform. The theoretical framework for this study was designed based on the combination ofLanguage Learning Strategies and Cognitive Theories of Vygotsky (1962), Piaget (1970),Brunner (1983) and Mc Laughlin (1987). Besides that, Theories of Speaking by Bygate (1987) andHarmer (2001) were used to analyse the data obtained. Six speaking themes such as facialexpression and body language, vocabulary, grammar, fluency, communication and pronunciationwere also used to answer the research questions. Participant A achieved the highestscore which was Level 4 in Lesson 10 for vocabulary and grammar. As for Participants B, C andD, they were able to achieve Level 3 for grammar in Lesson 10. All the four participants were ableto use the words learnt in the four short stories in Lesson 10. The findings show that the use ofshort stories have positive impact on the students English speaking skills andvocabulary enrichment. In conclusion, the study implicates that the use of short storiescan enhance the speaking skills of Year Three Tamil school pupils. |
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