A comparison of listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English among primary 1 students
Listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English are important components in the learning process in Malaysia. Both languages play important roles in Malaysia educational field. This study examined the listening comprehension in both languages based on students' ethnicity groups. Besides...
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| description | Listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English are important components in the learning process in Malaysia. Both languages play important roles in Malaysia educational field. This study examined the listening comprehension in both languages based on students' ethnicity groups. Besides that, this study also investigated listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English based on students' first, second and third language. Data on Primary 1 students (N = 866) from 11 government schools. A Kruskal Wallis Test showed that the students' performance in listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English based on the students' ethnicity groups. Result shows that there was a significant difference in students' performance in listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia. The difference was because of some students from ethnics groups could answer the all the questions correctly while some could not answer the questions at all. Besides that, there was no significant difference in students' performance in listening comprehension in English because students from all the ethnic groups obtained consistent results. Not only that, the One-Sample T -test showed that the students could perform better in listening tasks in Bahasa Malaysia compared to the listening tasks in English. Moreover, the findings discussed the reasons that contribute to the differences between students' performance in Bahasa Malaysia and English in listening comprehension. |
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| spelling | unimas-121142024-02-20T08:49:00Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12114/ A comparison of listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English among primary 1 students Olivia Nawah, Chulo H Social Sciences (General) PE English Listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English are important components in the learning process in Malaysia. Both languages play important roles in Malaysia educational field. This study examined the listening comprehension in both languages based on students' ethnicity groups. Besides that, this study also investigated listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English based on students' first, second and third language. Data on Primary 1 students (N = 866) from 11 government schools. A Kruskal Wallis Test showed that the students' performance in listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English based on the students' ethnicity groups. Result shows that there was a significant difference in students' performance in listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia. The difference was because of some students from ethnics groups could answer the all the questions correctly while some could not answer the questions at all. Besides that, there was no significant difference in students' performance in listening comprehension in English because students from all the ethnic groups obtained consistent results. Not only that, the One-Sample T -test showed that the students could perform better in listening tasks in Bahasa Malaysia compared to the listening tasks in English. Moreover, the findings discussed the reasons that contribute to the differences between students' performance in Bahasa Malaysia and English in listening comprehension. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2015 Final Year Project Report / IMRAD NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12114/1/Olivia.pdf text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12114/4/Olivia%20Nawah.pdf Olivia Nawah, Chulo (2015) A comparison of listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English among primary 1 students. [Final Year Project Report / IMRAD] (Unpublished) |
| spellingShingle | H Social Sciences (General) PE English Olivia Nawah, Chulo A comparison of listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English among primary 1 students |
| title | A comparison of listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English among primary 1 students |
| title_full | A comparison of listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English among primary 1 students |
| title_fullStr | A comparison of listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English among primary 1 students |
| title_full_unstemmed | A comparison of listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English among primary 1 students |
| title_short | A comparison of listening comprehension in Bahasa Malaysia and English among primary 1 students |
| title_sort | comparison of listening comprehension in bahasa malaysia and english among primary 1 students |
| topic | H Social Sciences (General) PE English |
| url | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12114/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12114/1/Olivia.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12114/4/Olivia%20Nawah.pdf |