Improving language acquistion and motivation in learning English as a second language through journal writing / Mohd Zulfahmi Ab Salam

• Main Author: Ab Salam, Mohd Zulfahmi
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Motivation in education. Interest. Attention; Malaysia
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14498/1/TD_MOHD%20ZULFAHMI%20AB%20SALAM%20ED%2010_5.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14498/

Education in Malaysia has been exam-oriented for so long. Therefore, students are rarely exposed to the “creative” and “intuitive” style of writing. They are taught to be adapted to the more formulaic style of writing. As a result, most view the process of writing as boring and hard and thus they...