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Type :thesis
Subject :GR Folklore
Main Author :Zaleha Zahari
Title :The effect of using nursery rhymes on the writing performance for year six pupils in a primary school
Place of Production :Tanjong Malim
Publisher :Fakulti Pembangunan Manusia
Year of Publication :2020
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Corporate Name :Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
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The  aim  of  this  study  was  to  determine  the  effect  of  using  nursery  rhymes  on  the   writing performance of year six pupils in a primary school. The researcher used Expository Teaching  Model for explaining meaningful learning by exposing a few nursery rhymes for writing an essay.  Constructivism  was also used to describe knowledge acquisition and motivation among the pupils.  For research design, the researcher used a quasi-experimental design to determine the effect of  using nursery rhymes on the writing performance for year six pupils in a primary school. The  experimental group used nursery rhyme and control group used traditional method with text book. A  sample of sixty pupils from year six pupils were selected and assigned to experimental group (n =  30) and control group (n = 30) randomly. The researcher used several instruments,  namely,  pre   and  post  tests  and  a  set  of  questionnaires.  The  reliability  of  the questionnaire was  relatively high which was based on Cronbach Alpha α = 0.807. Before the research was  conducted, a pre-test was given to both groups. The pre-test result for both groups showed the  means were almost the same for experimental (M = 38.07; SD = 7.21) and control (M = 32.33; SD =  9.89) groups. Pair sample t-test was used to see the differences between pre and post test results.  The post-test mean score for the experimental group was higher (M = 73.8; SD = 9.09) than the  post-test mean for the control group (M = 46.67; SD = 8.38). The t- test for the experimental group  showed a significant difference between the pre and post tests [t(29) = -27.95, p

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