Construction of English Grammar Syllabus: Focus On the Construction of Simple Sentences
The ability to produce and understand sentences is prerequisite to learning but many Malaysian students face serious problem in producing and understanding them. In this study, the knowledge and skills of simple sentence construction among 600 rural/urban students were investigated; observation a...
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Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
2009
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| Online Access: | http://pustaka2.upsi.edu.my/eprints/444/ http://pustaka2.upsi.edu.my/eprints/444/1/CONSTRUCTION%20OF%20ENGLISH%20GRAMMAR%20SYLLABUS-FOCUS%20ON%20THE%20CONSTRUCTION%20OF%20SIMPLE%20SENTENCES.pdf |
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| Summary: | The ability to produce and understand sentences is prerequisite to learning but many
Malaysian students face serious problem in producing and understanding them. In this
study, the knowledge and skills of simple sentence construction among 600 rural/urban
students were investigated; observation and interviews with their teachers were carried
out to investigate whether teachers taught sentence building. The students were asked to
translate 80 Bahasa Melayu sentences into English. Their sentences were analyzed for
accuracy and errors based on 8 different sentence patterns and different forms such as
questions and passive. The results show that students' ability to construct sentences was
very poor. The easiest sentence pattern was NP + be + NP and the most difficult pattern
was NP + VP in the perfect. Their skills in forming all question forms were poor
especially in using correct auxiliaries. The poor ability to construct simple sentences was
evident due to the negligence of teachers in teaching the skills. |
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