Sikap dan pencapaian pelajar dalam mata pelajaran kesusasteraan Melayu: satu kajian kes

The research aimes to study the attitude of form five students towards Malay Literature and its relationship with achievement, it is also to investigate if there is any difference in attitude and level achievement according to sex, location and the socio-economic status of students. The sample comprises 160 students from three secondary schools at District of Raub Pahang. The two factors of attitude towards Malay Literature were used to measure the attitude towards Malay Literature subjects and Malay Literature teachers. Five general hyphotheses and fifteen small null hypotheses were made. This study used questionnaires which consist of 37 items on the attitude towards Malay Literature with the five point Likert Scale. The students achievements in Malay Literature subject were obtained from the marks scored in the 2003 final examination. The data were analyzed using the Pearson Coefficient Correlation method was u to measure the relationship between the attitude towards literature and the achievement in Malay Literature subject. While the were used to determine different attitude and achievements in Malay Literature based on their the gender, location, the socio - economy status of the students. The findings of the study shows that is a significant relationship between attitude towards Malay Literature, that is, the attitude towards Malay Literature subjects and the attitude towards the Literature teacher with the achievement in the Malay literature subjects. The relationships between the attitudes towards the Malay Literature subject with the attitude towards the Malay literature teachers was also found significant. Besides that, the findings show a significant attitude differences towards Malay Literature based on gender, location and the socio-economic status. As for the students achievement analysis, it shows a significant differences in their achievement based on their location and their socio-economic status (occupational index). However, the analysis of the students’ attitude towards the subject teacher and the students achievements based on gender and the socio-economic status (occupational and educational index) shows no significant differences