MyResearch
Tuesday 12 November 2013
Topic : Impact of motivation, reading attitude and work environment on speaking skill.
Topic : Impact of motivation, reading
attitude and work environment on speaking skill.
1.0
Introduction.
The mastery level of English as a second language in
Malaysia among the Y generation is going to the dog is a national calamity.
Most of these youths who were being taught English as one of the subject in
national education curriculum nowadays are facing this problem. The current
approach of teaching English as a second language (ESL) in national schools
which is Communicative Approach is being questioned as why the outcomes of such
approach do not meet the standard meted. When the Communicative Teaching and
Learning Approach was introduced to replace Structural Approach in the
beginning of 1980’s via KBSR and KBSM, it is supposed to enable the students of
ESL in national school stream to be more approachable and confident when it
comes to productive skills especially speaking skill as a result of exposure to
the language as well as ample opportunity to practice it. However the standard
of English communication competencies’ of vast majority of this approach’s
output are still far below the standard meted even for daily English
communication.
Some of these youths now are joining the Malaysian Armed
Force as paramedic students at Armed Force Health Training Institution or
better known as INSAN AT which cater to produce a paramedic staff for the Armed
Force to assist all the medical and dental associate work. They are studying
for a diploma in their respective field such as nursing, medical assistant,
pharmacy, dental, physiotherapy, laboratory technician and radiology assistant.
Is the problem lies on the fact that Communicative Approach
of teaching and learning ESL in classroom does not have an impact on the
students’ speaking skill because they do not have the proper structure of the
English language grammar and the language exposed to them merely a repetitive
ones found in and strictly bound to the text book? Therefore the limitation of exposure
to Second Language (SL) vocabulary and sentence patterns becomes the real issue
as why these students are unable to speak fluently. This study wants to see if
there is a relation between students’ reading attitude in Second Language with
their competency in speaking skill.
An important factor to students’ reading
attitude in the SL investigation is to know the existence of motivation beneath the need of these
students learning English as Second Language (ESL) especially when they reach
post school education level. As an official Malaysia’s second language widely
used especially in the private and hospitality field such as tourism, education,
health service, etc in the competitive global economy, English is learnt and sat for in national examinations
as one of the core subjects in national education systems. However since exams’
results for English subject in the past 40 years do not tally with the mastery
of the language use in majority of the school leavers insinuating that their
motivation in learning the language during the period of school years is just
to pass the national examinations such as PMR and SPM. While it is good enough
to have a straight A’s achievers among Malaysian students but what the education
systems in turning to Communicative Approach in teaching and learning ESL still lacking is to produce (at least) a bilingual
school leavers who will become part of the workforce in Malaysian global
competitive job market. Most of the students who are products of national
schools especially those from the rural part of the country with less exposure
to ESL in their daily basis
communication especially in spoken form could not meet the demand of
communication skills competencies in ESL especially in speaking skill as they
need to attend and to pass job interviews at the threshold of their life
between the job seekers title and
employee titles and later, to mingle around colleagues with ESL fluency later
in their working environment.
Since
this study is conducted at a diploma level education which is specifying in
medical and dental related working environment, therefore
it is crucial to detect whether or not the paramedic diploma students in INSAN
AT have an appropriate amount of motivation of either types - instrumental or integrative
while learning ESL as part of their elective course for their respective field.
Another
problems that should be addressed in the dilemma of speaking ESL in wor
surrounding which has no immediate need to use the language. While it
could be true in the private sectors and industrial sectors which give
Malaysia its’ enormous leaps in economic gain from the 70’s till now, the other
way around is exist in the public sectors which also cater for the hospitality
such as counter services, customer relations etc. Since National language is the medium of
instructions in most of public sectors departments and offices including
schools and hospitals, therefore the needs of using ESL is not so crucial and
there is no immediate need to use ESL in the paramedic students working
environment in Armed Force Hospital whose patients or customers are among the
fellow Malaysians.
1.1
Statement
of research problem – How do I state it/them?
1.2
Research
Objectives –
1.2.1 The objective of this study is to find
the correlation between students’ motivation in learning the second language,
their reading attitude in second language and their social working condition
with their ability to speak the second language.
1.3
Research
hypotheses
1.3.1 Motivation
1.3.1.1 Hypothesis’: Motivation to learn the second language has an impact on their
ability to speak English.
1.3.1.2 Hypothesis’ Null : Motivation to
learn the second language has no impact on their ability to speak English.
1.3.2 Reading
attitude
1.3.2.1 Hypothesis’: Reading (in second language) attitude has an impact on their ability
to speak English.
1.3.2.2 Hypothesis’ Null : Reading (in second
language) attitude has no impact on their ability to speak English.
1.3.3
Working environment
1.3.3.1 Hypothesis’: Working environment has an impact on their ability to speak English.
1.3.3.2 Hypothesis’ Null : Working
environment has no impact on their
ability to speak English.
1.4
Operational definition - motivation
1.5
Limitation
of study –
1.6
Significant
of study -
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