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| Abstract : Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris |
| The uses of learning materials and learning styles are among the domineering factors in shaping the students’ best achievements in examinations. This research was carried out with the purpose to find out the types of learning materials and learning styles used among the non - Malay students. 60 non-Malay form four students, taken from two schools in the Lipis District, Pahang were selected to be the samples. The information was gathered through questionnaires and interviews. A few methods have been selected to analyze the data. The methods used are frequency statistics, percentage, correlation, and one way ANOVA. The findings of this research shows that, there is a significant relation between the frequent uses of Bahasa Melayu reading materials, academic and non-academic magazines and also the frequent reading of additional reading materials related to Bahasa Melayu subject, towards the increasing of achievement for Bahasa Melayu subject in their previous form four examination. The research also shows that the excellent students (75% and above) were the frequently readers of additional reading materials related to BM subject compared to the students who were failures in Bahasa Melayu subject. Other than that, there is also a significant relation with their PMRs’ results for grade A min is 3.6154, the min for grade B is 2.9500, grade C min is 2.38889 and 1.7778 for grade D/E. The research also found that there is a close significant between the frequency of doing Bahasa Melayu exercises at home with the students’ achievement in that particular examination. 16.7 % students who got Grade A, frequently made a lot of Bahasa Melayu exercises compared to the Grade F students. This dissertation also contains First Chapter, in which previous studies, problem statement research aims, conceptual framework, questionnaire, research limitation, term definition, relevance of studies and conclusion, are concluded. While Chapter Two is on literature review, learning theories, learning styles and previous related studies. Chapter Three discusses on the research methodology in which the research design, data gathering methods and analysis procedure are presented. The findings and its discussion is being described in Chapter 4, while Chapter 5, it contains summarizations and suggestions. It is hoped that this research could be made as reference by parents, teachers, school, district or state authorities, and also the Ministry of Education itself, in planning a better quality teaching and learning methods, especially for the non-Malay students in mastering the Bahasa Melayu subject. |
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