A Phenomenological Study Of Mentors’ And Mentees’ Reaction In The Native Speaker Programme Of A Rural Primary School In Perak

• Main Author: Ong, Mei Yun
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: L7-991 Education (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/31851/1/ONG_MEI_YUN_24%28NN%29.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/31851/

Kajian ini mengkaji reaksi mentor dan mentee di sebuah sekolah luar bandar di negeri Perak. Program Penutur Jati telah dijalankan di sekolah-sekolah rendah yang terpilih di Malaysia dari tahun 2011 sehingga 2013. Mentor yang berasal dari luar negara telah diletakkan di sekolah rendah tempatan untuk membantu meningkatkan kapasiti para guru Bahasa Inggeris sekolah rendah (mentee). Objektif utama kajian fenomenologi ini adalah untuk mengkaji reaksi mentor dan mentee yang terlibat dalam Program Penutur Jati di sebuah sekolah rendah di negeri Perak dari segi objektif program, jangka masa, motivasi mentor dan mentee serta kerjasama yang diberikan sepanjang program ini dijalankan. Tiga orang mentor dan dua orang mentee telah ditemubual untuk mendapatkan pandangan mereka mengenai empat bidang di atas. This study investigated the reaction of the mentors and mentees in a rural primary school in Perak. The Native Speaker Programme was implemented in selected primary schools in Malaysia from 2011 to 2013. The mentors are the foreign English language teachers who are placed in the local primary schools to assist in building the capacity of the local Malaysian English teachers (mentees). The principal objective of this phenomenological study is to investigate the reaction of the mentors and mentees in the Native Speaker Programme implemented in a rural primary school in Perak in terms of the programme objectives, time frame, motivation of the mentors and mentees and the cooperation given throughout the programme. Three mentors and two mentees were interviewed to obtain their responses regarding the four areas stated above.