Expressive vocabulary in English and Malay among primary one school children: a comparison between boys and girls

This research compared the expressive vocabulary in English and Malay between male and female students. This research also compared the overall students' perfonnance of the expressive vocabulary in English and Malay. Data on 11 government primary schools (N = 866) were collected using random sa...

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Main Author: Tang, Swee Gek
Format: Final Year Project Report / IMRAD
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2015
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12152/1/Swee%20Gek%2824pgs%29.pdf
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description This research compared the expressive vocabulary in English and Malay between male and female students. This research also compared the overall students' perfonnance of the expressive vocabulary in English and Malay. Data on 11 government primary schools (N = 866) were collected using random sampling. The research showed that females perfonned better than males in the both English and Malay expressive vocabulary. However, the females perfonned better in Malay expressive vocabulary than in English expressive vocabulary. These results highlight the influence of the order oflanguage acquisition (e.g. first language versus second language learning).
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spelling unimas-121522025-04-07T03:21:18Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12152/ Expressive vocabulary in English and Malay among primary one school children: a comparison between boys and girls Tang, Swee Gek P Philology. Linguistics This research compared the expressive vocabulary in English and Malay between male and female students. This research also compared the overall students' perfonnance of the expressive vocabulary in English and Malay. Data on 11 government primary schools (N = 866) were collected using random sampling. The research showed that females perfonned better than males in the both English and Malay expressive vocabulary. However, the females perfonned better in Malay expressive vocabulary than in English expressive vocabulary. These results highlight the influence of the order oflanguage acquisition (e.g. first language versus second language learning). Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2015 Final Year Project Report / IMRAD NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12152/1/Swee%20Gek%2824pgs%29.pdf text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12152/6/Tang%20Swee%20Gek.pdf Tang, Swee Gek (2015) Expressive vocabulary in English and Malay among primary one school children: a comparison between boys and girls. [Final Year Project Report / IMRAD] (Unpublished)
spellingShingle P Philology. Linguistics
Tang, Swee Gek
Expressive vocabulary in English and Malay among primary one school children: a comparison between boys and girls
title Expressive vocabulary in English and Malay among primary one school children: a comparison between boys and girls
title_full Expressive vocabulary in English and Malay among primary one school children: a comparison between boys and girls
title_fullStr Expressive vocabulary in English and Malay among primary one school children: a comparison between boys and girls
title_full_unstemmed Expressive vocabulary in English and Malay among primary one school children: a comparison between boys and girls
title_short Expressive vocabulary in English and Malay among primary one school children: a comparison between boys and girls
title_sort expressive vocabulary in english and malay among primary one school children: a comparison between boys and girls
topic P Philology. Linguistics
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12152/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12152/1/Swee%20Gek%2824pgs%29.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12152/6/Tang%20Swee%20Gek.pdf