Beliefs of primary school teachers on ESL students’ success

The purpose of this research is to discover the beliefs of primary school teachers pertaining to issues involving ESL students’ success and pedagogy in the ESL classroom. This study uncovered the factors that the teachers believed affect students’ mastery of the English language in Malaysia. The dat...

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Main Authors: Kartar Singh, Kulwant Kaur, Yamat, Hamidah, Kartar Singh, Jaswir Kaur
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: Unit Penerbitan IPG KPM 2017
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author Kartar Singh, Kulwant Kaur
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description The purpose of this research is to discover the beliefs of primary school teachers pertaining to issues involving ESL students’ success and pedagogy in the ESL classroom. This study uncovered the factors that the teachers believed affect students’ mastery of the English language in Malaysia. The data was retrieved through interviews from three ESL teachers with different years of experience and they were categorised as veteran, experienced and novice teacher. Qualitative data analysis software, ATLAS.ti Version 7 was used to yield the teachers’ beliefs about factors contributing to students’ success in the ESL classroom through constant comparative and thematic analysis. The findings revealed that the role of teachers, students’ attitude, family and peers are the factors that are significant in determining the success of students. This implies that there is a need for collaboration to encourage learning and using the English language effectively to enhance the pedagogy and thinking skills.
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spelling iium-765772019-12-03T09:36:35Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/76577/ Beliefs of primary school teachers on ESL students’ success Kartar Singh, Kulwant Kaur Yamat, Hamidah Kartar Singh, Jaswir Kaur LB1025 Teaching (principles and practices) PE English The purpose of this research is to discover the beliefs of primary school teachers pertaining to issues involving ESL students’ success and pedagogy in the ESL classroom. This study uncovered the factors that the teachers believed affect students’ mastery of the English language in Malaysia. The data was retrieved through interviews from three ESL teachers with different years of experience and they were categorised as veteran, experienced and novice teacher. Qualitative data analysis software, ATLAS.ti Version 7 was used to yield the teachers’ beliefs about factors contributing to students’ success in the ESL classroom through constant comparative and thematic analysis. The findings revealed that the role of teachers, students’ attitude, family and peers are the factors that are significant in determining the success of students. This implies that there is a need for collaboration to encourage learning and using the English language effectively to enhance the pedagogy and thinking skills. Unit Penerbitan IPG KPM 2017-10-11 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/76577/1/e-prosiding_PPIPK_2017.pdf.pdf Kartar Singh, Kulwant Kaur and Yamat, Hamidah and Kartar Singh, Jaswir Kaur (2017) Beliefs of primary school teachers on ESL students’ success. In: Persidangan Penyelidikan Dan Innovasi Pendidikan Kebangsaan Kali Kedua 2017, 11th-12th October 2017, Cyberjaya, Selangor. Http://ipgkdri.moe.edu.my/ppipk2017/
spellingShingle LB1025 Teaching (principles and practices)
PE English
Kartar Singh, Kulwant Kaur
Yamat, Hamidah
Kartar Singh, Jaswir Kaur
Beliefs of primary school teachers on ESL students’ success
title Beliefs of primary school teachers on ESL students’ success
title_full Beliefs of primary school teachers on ESL students’ success
title_fullStr Beliefs of primary school teachers on ESL students’ success
title_full_unstemmed Beliefs of primary school teachers on ESL students’ success
title_short Beliefs of primary school teachers on ESL students’ success
title_sort beliefs of primary school teachers on esl students’ success
topic LB1025 Teaching (principles and practices)
PE English
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/76577/1/e-prosiding_PPIPK_2017.pdf.pdf