The Capacity And Capability Of A Rural Primary School In Sabah In Promoting The Teaching And Learning Of The English Language
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Date
2012-06
Authors
Lim, Bridget Suk Han
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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This study was encouraged by the mobilization of the NKRA (National Key Result Areas) Project specifically the High Performing Schools issue. In essence, this is an investigation of the “live-life” of a rural primary school, School X which rested in rustic Sabah, Malaysia. The performance of the school in the UPSR (Primary School Achievement Test) had been very poor particularly in the English language. The main question posed for this study was “Does a small bucolic school with all its pastoral and rustic conditions have the potential to be a high performing school especially in the English language?” Every school has a life of its own which makes up of different structures and processes. As Kyriakides, Campbell, and Gagatsis (2000) put it, the factors at the school level were conditional for factors at the classroom level and factors at the classroom level were conditional for pupil achievement. This study used a fieldwork case study approach which aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of these processes and practices of the school. Seven entries had been conducted over a time span of 18 months starting July 2009 until March 2011. The data of the study were obtained through observations, interviews, and document analysis. Data collection was based on four different domains: school climate, classroom climate, school effectiveness, and classroom effectiveness. The data analysis were conducted, triangulated, and then reduced so that interpretative analysis could be conducted to make connections for pertinent issues to materialise. The data collection and analysis of this study was guided by five measurement dimensions – frequency, focus, stage, differentiation, and quality popularised by
Creemers and Kyriakides (2008).
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The capacity and capability of a rural primary school in Sabah , promoting the teaching and learning of the english language