A comparison between oral reading fluency in English and Bahasa Malaysia among primary 1 students

Reading comprehension is important measure to identify whether the students understand their reading and learning process. The perfonnance oforal reading fluency is one of the factor affect the measure. In Malaysia, the main language used is Bahasa Malaysia and English is the second language. Theref...

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Main Author: Azeryna, anak Mike
Format: Final Year Project Report / IMRAD
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2015
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description Reading comprehension is important measure to identify whether the students understand their reading and learning process. The perfonnance oforal reading fluency is one of the factor affect the measure. In Malaysia, the main language used is Bahasa Malaysia and English is the second language. Therefore, this study intended to compare the perfonnance of oral reading fluency between English and Bahasa Malaysia among Primary 1 students. This study was involved 865 students from 11 randomly selected government schools. They are tested with their ability in oral reading fluency in both languages. This study is take place in Kuching, Sarawak. The result indicates students score well in Bahasa Malaysia than English. The average score in Bahasa Malaysia is bigger than in English. Meanwhile, the girls outperfonn boys in both languages. Then, students with English as their second language perfonn average in English oral reading fluency. The causes of these results are then identified and discussed.
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spelling unimas-121132023-02-14T06:41:54Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12113/ A comparison between oral reading fluency in English and Bahasa Malaysia among primary 1 students Azeryna, anak Mike P Philology. Linguistics PE English Reading comprehension is important measure to identify whether the students understand their reading and learning process. The perfonnance oforal reading fluency is one of the factor affect the measure. In Malaysia, the main language used is Bahasa Malaysia and English is the second language. Therefore, this study intended to compare the perfonnance of oral reading fluency between English and Bahasa Malaysia among Primary 1 students. This study was involved 865 students from 11 randomly selected government schools. They are tested with their ability in oral reading fluency in both languages. This study is take place in Kuching, Sarawak. The result indicates students score well in Bahasa Malaysia than English. The average score in Bahasa Malaysia is bigger than in English. Meanwhile, the girls outperfonn boys in both languages. Then, students with English as their second language perfonn average in English oral reading fluency. The causes of these results are then identified and discussed. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2015 Final Year Project Report / IMRAD NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12113/3/Azeryna%20anak%20Mike%2024pgs.pdf text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12113/6/Azeryna%20anak%20Mike%20ft.pdf Azeryna, anak Mike (2015) A comparison between oral reading fluency in English and Bahasa Malaysia among primary 1 students. [Final Year Project Report / IMRAD] (Unpublished)
spellingShingle P Philology. Linguistics
PE English
Azeryna, anak Mike
A comparison between oral reading fluency in English and Bahasa Malaysia among primary 1 students
title A comparison between oral reading fluency in English and Bahasa Malaysia among primary 1 students
title_full A comparison between oral reading fluency in English and Bahasa Malaysia among primary 1 students
title_fullStr A comparison between oral reading fluency in English and Bahasa Malaysia among primary 1 students
title_full_unstemmed A comparison between oral reading fluency in English and Bahasa Malaysia among primary 1 students
title_short A comparison between oral reading fluency in English and Bahasa Malaysia among primary 1 students
title_sort comparison between oral reading fluency in english and bahasa malaysia among primary 1 students
topic P Philology. Linguistics
PE English
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12113/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12113/3/Azeryna%20anak%20Mike%2024pgs.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12113/6/Azeryna%20anak%20Mike%20ft.pdf