The objectives of this study were to investigate the reading ability of Malay students at primary and secondary schools, and teachers‟ practices in the teaching of reading skills. Miller‟s (1995) Reading Assessment Techniques, which comprised six tests, were used to test word and parsing identification miscues and reading comprehension. The subjects were 1989 students and 360 teachers from both rural and urban schools in Perak and Terengganu. Findings show that the majority of students were able to recognize linguistic cues at the word level. However, they had poor recognition of phrases and clauses, thus facing difficulties in processing sentences, especially complex sentences and main ideas in discourse (Ibrahim, Mohamed Nor, Abu, & Atan, 2007). Hence, the majority of students (Year 5, Form 1, 2 and 4) were unable to read textbooks provided by the Malaysian Ministry of Education because of higher readability levels (Carrell, 2001; Nation & Deweerdt, 2001). These findings could be.....

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Tujuan kajian ini ialah untuk melihat kesan dasar penggunaan Bahasa lnggeris sebagai bahasa pengantar Matematik dan Sains di sekolah (PPSMI), terutama di sekolah rendah: sejauh manakah dasar ini berkesan untuk meningkatkan pembelajaran dan prestasi murid dalam kedua-dua mata pelajaran ini; dan sejauh manakah ia meningkatkan kemahiran pelajar dalam Bahasa lnggeris, seperti yang diharapkan oleh Kerajaan apabila dasar ini diumumkan dalam Julai 2002, dan mula dilaksanakan pada awal tahun 2003. Kajian ini merupakan kajian tinjauan soal selidik dan ujian Matematik, Sains dan Bahasa lnggeris di kalangan sampel murid Tahun 5 di sekolah rendah dalam tiga kohort, iaitu tinjauan Februari 2007 (N=1564) dari 27 buah sekolah rendah, Julai 2007 (N= 636) dari 13 buah sekolah, dan Januari 2008 (N= 1703) dari 28 buah sekolah. Murid ini telah mengalamai pembelajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa lnggeris selama empat tahun, iaitu sejak dasar ini mula diperkenalkan. Dapatan dari ketiga-tiga sampel ini .....

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This study seeks to among others: create a bench-mark for ESL Malay students reading comprehension proficiency at the primary and secondary school level; identify the main factors that influence how much a student gains in reading achievement during a year of school; investigate the reasons as to why some students achieve high levels in reading while others do not and fail to read efficiently; find out what teachers do to increase their students' linguistic cues automatic recognition and reading achievement of what they read, whenever they read; document what teachers have done to increase ESL students' reading achievement and to suggest what teachers can do to increase students' reading achievement. The reading tests were conducted using Miller's (1995) Reading Assessment Techniques. There were six tests including: vocabulary tests, reading tests (word and parsing identification miscues), and reading comprehension tests. Participants were 1989 students and 360 teachers from both rural.....

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