Difficulties And Problems Faced By Form Four Teachers And Recommended Solutions in The Teaching Of The Short Stories, In Serian District

This research is intended to find out difficulties and problems faced by Form Four English Language teachers in Serian District in the teaching of a Literature Component; The Short Stories. There are thirty-five teachers involved in this research and the instrument used was Questionnaires. Bes...

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Main Author: Augustin, Egoh Ginchang
Format: Final Year Project Report
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2007
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/46669/1/Augustin%20ft.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/46669/
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Summary:This research is intended to find out difficulties and problems faced by Form Four English Language teachers in Serian District in the teaching of a Literature Component; The Short Stories. There are thirty-five teachers involved in this research and the instrument used was Questionnaires. Besides responding to the statements in the questionnaires, the teachers involved are required, if any, to state their problems with regards to the teaching of the component. They may even allow giving their suggestions on how to overcome the problems. All the information gathered were then analysed and discuss quantitatively. The finding shows that these teachers are having problems in their teaching of the literature component. They are having problems on how to make their teaching of the component more effective, how they can change their students' attitude and building their knowledge so that their students can understand more of the component. These teachers also stated their needs to attend workshops, seminars, courses related to approaches, methods and techniques of teaching the component effectively. They also stated that their students are another source of their problems in the teaching of the component effectively. Besides both them and their students, the teachers also stated that they are having problems with the lack of resources for references and teaching modules for effective teaching of the component. These teachers, finally gave some suggestions on how the teaching and learning of the component can be done effectively based on their day-to-day experience with their students.