Identifying the Factors Contributing to Students’ Difficulties in the English Language Learning - Creative Education

CE > Vol.8 No.13, October 2017

Identifying the Factors Contributing to Students’ Difficulties in the English Language Learning ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ce.2017.813136 9,997 Downloads 45,547 Views Citations

Author(s)

Nor Hani Misbah¹, Maslawati Mohamad², Melor Md Yunus², Azizah Ya’acob³

Affiliation(s)

¹Sekolah Kebangsaan Pekan Dua, Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan, Malaysia.
²Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia.
³Pusat Citra Universiti, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

In today’s ever-changing world, the English language has been placed to be one of the important languages in communication, as well as the main medium of instruction in education. To be in line with this acknowledgement, the Ministry of Education of Malaysia has placed the importance of mastering the English language and hashighlighted the need for students to excel in the language as early as in the primary school years. To reach this aim, the Ministry of Education has introduced the GPMP (Gred Purata Mata Pelajaran/ Subject Grade Point Average) target for English to schools in every state to ensure every school performs well in the subject. However, there are still a handful of schools that are unable to pass this GPMP target for English due to the poor performance of their students in the subject. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the factors that interfere with the students’ performance in learning English. The participants of this study were the 116 students from the seven schools that were unable to reach the state’s GPMP in the English language. This study used questionnaire as the instrument to explore the factors that hindered them from performing well in the subject. Overall, the findings show that there are three major themes that contribute to the students’ difficulties in the English language learning; the lack of English vocabulary, the influence of the first language and the socio-economic status of the family. The findings and discussion of this study would be able to help the pertinent parties such as teachers, school administrators and parents to make decisions for the learners’ improvement in their English language learning.

KEYWORDS

Factors, EFL, Difficulties, Primary School, Students

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Misbah, N. , Mohamad, M. , Yunus, M. and Ya’acob, A. (2017) Identifying the Factors Contributing to Students’ Difficulties in the English Language Learning. Creative Education, 8, 1999-2008. doi: 10.4236/ce.2017.813136.

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