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THERESA CHENG XIAO NIAN

INSTITUT PENDIDIKAN GURU KAMPUS PULAU PINANG

2017
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THERESA CHENG XIAO NIAN

Research Report Submitted in

Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the
Program Ijazah Sarjana Muda Perguruan dengan kepujian
Pengajaran Bahasa Inggeris sebagai Bahasa Kedua (TESL)
Pendidikan Rendah

INSTITUT PENDIDIKAN GURU KAMPUS PULAU PINANG

NOVEMBER 2017
 CONFIRMATION

I hereby declare that I have read the research report and in my opinion

this thesis is sufficient in terms of scope and quality for the award of a

Bachelor of Education with Honours Teaching English as Second

Language (TESL) in Primary Education

Signature : .......................................................................................

Supervisor’s Name : MS. JASWANT KAUR A/P BAKHSHISH SINGH

Date : NOVEMBER 2017

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 DECLARATION BY CANDIDATE

I hereby declare that this thesis is my own work and effort and that it has not been

submitted anywhere for any award. Where other sources of information

have been used, they have been acknowledged.

Signature : .........................................................................................................

Name : THERESA CHENG XIAO NIAN

Index No : 2014271340021

Date : NOVEMBER 2017

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 DEDICATION

I would like to …..

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all, ….

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 ABSTRACT

This action research aimed to investigate if the use of “Wh-Interrogatives” Word Table can

help Year 4 pupils to write simple sentences with correct Subject-Verb Agreement (SVA)

based on a picture stimulus. Problems in sentence construction were prominent and

noticeable in pupils’ writing tasks. Therefore, it was important to address this issue so that

pupils could master basic sentence writing skills before learning how to expand sentences.

This research was conducted on a class of 32 Year 4 pupils from a primary national school

located on Penang Island. Pre-intervention and post-intervention tasks were carried out ….

Keywords: Subject-Verb Agreement (SVA), “Wh-Interrogatives” Word Table, sentence

writing

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 ABSTRAK

Penyelidikan tindakan ini bertujuan untuk membantu murid-murid Tahun 4 menulis ayat

dengan “Subject-Verb Agreement” (SVA) yang betul berdasarkan sebuah gambar yang

ditunjukkan dengan menggunakan “Wh-Interrogatives” Word Table yang merupakan bahan

yang dihasilkan sebagai tindakan. Masalah dalam penulisan ayat amat ketara dan senang

dijumpai dalam latihan penulisan murid-murid. ....

Kata kunci: Subject-Verb Agreement (SVA), “Wh-Interrogatives” Word Table, penulisan ayat

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 TABLE OF CONTENT

CONTENT PAGE

CONFIRMATION iii

DECLARATION BY CANDIDATE iiii

DEDICATION iv

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT v

ABSTRACT vii

ABSTRAK viii

TABLE OF CONTENT viiii

LIST OF TABLES x

LIST OF FIGURES xii

LIST OF APPENDICES xiii

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xiii

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Table 2.1 Marking scheme of the worksheet 7

Table 2.2 Participants’ results gained from the worksheets 8

Table 2.3 Types of grammatical errors in sentences written by 8

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Figure 2.1 Cyclical Action Research model based on Kemmis and 11

McTaggart (1988)

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Appendix A Sample of a worksheet for Preliminary Data 51

Collection

Appendix B Learning Style Inventory 52

Appendix C “Wh-Interrogatives” Word Table 54

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 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

DSKP Dokumen Standard Kurikulum dan Pentaksiran

Standard Document for Curriculum and Assessment

SVA Subject-Verb Agreement

ESL English as Second Language

HPS High Performance School

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