Student's interests, purposes, and attitudes towards learning French at Public Higher Educational Institutions in Malaysia

The teaching of French as a foreign language (FFL) has been introduced in the Malaysian education system since the 1980s. Following the Malaysian government's globalization policy, FFL teaching, and learning are now expanding in this nation including at the Public Higher Educational Institution...

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Main Authors: Hassan @ Hussin, Omrah, Mohamad, Ab Halim, Roslan, Amirah Syazwani
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Published: Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2023
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109084/
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author Hassan @ Hussin, Omrah
Mohamad, Ab Halim
Roslan, Amirah Syazwani
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Mohamad, Ab Halim
Roslan, Amirah Syazwani
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description The teaching of French as a foreign language (FFL) has been introduced in the Malaysian education system since the 1980s. Following the Malaysian government's globalization policy, FFL teaching, and learning are now expanding in this nation including at the Public Higher Educational Institutions (IPTA) in Malaysia. The present study aimed to determine how interested and enthusiastic the respective IPTA students were in learning French. This quantitative study involves 329 students from twelve IPTAs: UITM, UKM, UPM, UPNM, UMK, USM, UM, USIM, UTM, UPSI, UUM, and UMT. The results of the study found that 91.8 of respondents had a strong interest in the French language. While their attitude toward the foreign language is average. To accomplish language learning objectives, interests, and attitudes must coincide. Consequently, self-learning activities such as reading newspapers, accessing the internet, and communicating in French need to be improved.
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spelling upm-1090842024-10-15T02:19:50Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109084/ Student's interests, purposes, and attitudes towards learning French at Public Higher Educational Institutions in Malaysia Hassan @ Hussin, Omrah Mohamad, Ab Halim Roslan, Amirah Syazwani The teaching of French as a foreign language (FFL) has been introduced in the Malaysian education system since the 1980s. Following the Malaysian government's globalization policy, FFL teaching, and learning are now expanding in this nation including at the Public Higher Educational Institutions (IPTA) in Malaysia. The present study aimed to determine how interested and enthusiastic the respective IPTA students were in learning French. This quantitative study involves 329 students from twelve IPTAs: UITM, UKM, UPM, UPNM, UMK, USM, UM, USIM, UTM, UPSI, UUM, and UMT. The results of the study found that 91.8 of respondents had a strong interest in the French language. While their attitude toward the foreign language is average. To accomplish language learning objectives, interests, and attitudes must coincide. Consequently, self-learning activities such as reading newspapers, accessing the internet, and communicating in French need to be improved. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2023-07-18 Article PeerReviewed Hassan @ Hussin, Omrah and Mohamad, Ab Halim and Roslan, Amirah Syazwani (2023) Student's interests, purposes, and attitudes towards learning French at Public Higher Educational Institutions in Malaysia. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 13 (7). pp. 1453-1467. ISSN 2222-6990 https://hrmars.com/index.php/IJARBSS/article/view/17870/Students-Interests-Purposes-and-Attitudes-towards-Learning-French-at-the-Malaysia-Public-Higher-Education-Institutions 10.6007/IJARBSS/v13-i7/17870
spellingShingle Hassan @ Hussin, Omrah
Mohamad, Ab Halim
Roslan, Amirah Syazwani
Student's interests, purposes, and attitudes towards learning French at Public Higher Educational Institutions in Malaysia
title Student's interests, purposes, and attitudes towards learning French at Public Higher Educational Institutions in Malaysia
title_full Student's interests, purposes, and attitudes towards learning French at Public Higher Educational Institutions in Malaysia
title_fullStr Student's interests, purposes, and attitudes towards learning French at Public Higher Educational Institutions in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Student's interests, purposes, and attitudes towards learning French at Public Higher Educational Institutions in Malaysia
title_short Student's interests, purposes, and attitudes towards learning French at Public Higher Educational Institutions in Malaysia
title_sort student's interests, purposes, and attitudes towards learning french at public higher educational institutions in malaysia
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109084/
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