MELTA 2012
The Malaysian English Language Teachers Association conference 2012 is now finished.
Peter Wickham presented on research into libraries in Malaysian primary schools along with colleague Pn Zaliha.
For full details including the final paper and PowerPoint presentation go to his Communicative ESL website (follow the link).
The questionnaire associated with their research can be found on this page (please click on the link), and if you are involved with a Malaysian primary school and are willing to help by completing the survey it would be much appreciated.
The abstract for their paper presentation is below:
(click on "Fullscreen" on the Scribd document, or download the file below.)
Peter Wickham presented on research into libraries in Malaysian primary schools along with colleague Pn Zaliha.
For full details including the final paper and PowerPoint presentation go to his Communicative ESL website (follow the link).
The questionnaire associated with their research can be found on this page (please click on the link), and if you are involved with a Malaysian primary school and are willing to help by completing the survey it would be much appreciated.
The abstract for their paper presentation is below:
(click on "Fullscreen" on the Scribd document, or download the file below.)
To download the full text of this paper click on this link:
| melta_paper_rethinking_english_language_reading_learner_resources_in_terengganuan_schools.docx |
Ruth Wickham presented a workshop along with colleague Azlinda bt Abd Aziz. They researched how to increase motivation of Malaysian children to read (in English) by discovering what they are interested in. They used a survey and then interviewed selected children in the Teaching School (connected to IPGKDRI). Following this research, they produced some small storybooks, tested them on the children concerned, and then presented a workshop to enable Malaysian teachers to follow the same path with their students.
For full details of the project and the presentation go to the Stories for Malaysian Kids website (follow the link).
The abstract is below: (Click on "Fulscreen" on the Scribd document to read it on the computer, or download the file below.)
For full details of the project and the presentation go to the Stories for Malaysian Kids website (follow the link).
The abstract is below: (Click on "Fulscreen" on the Scribd document to read it on the computer, or download the file below.)
| abstract_melta_2012_ruth_wickham.pdf |
| questionnaire_for_kids.docx |
| bmquestionnaire_for_kids.docx |
Meeting with children from Teaching School
Ruth and Azlinda, with the assistance of IPG students, met with children from the Teaching School to obtain materials and ideas for the "Stories for Malaysian Kids" project. (Follow the link to read more about this project). More photos of this event can be viewed here.
Story Writing Competition (for IPG students)
All students (not just TESL) at IPGKDRI were offered an incentive through a competition to write a story about childhood in Malaysia. Stories had to be written in English, but will be judged on the story rather than the quality of the written English (as long as it can be understood).
Suggested themes are:
As well as rewarding the best stories, the stories will be edited and then made available on the Stories for Malaysian Kids website, as well as compiled into a book to be (hopefully) sent to a publisher when the opportunity arises.
Suggested themes are:
- "A favourite object from my childhood"
- "The happiest day I can remember"
- "A sad moment in my childhood"
- "The day everything changed"
As well as rewarding the best stories, the stories will be edited and then made available on the Stories for Malaysian Kids website, as well as compiled into a book to be (hopefully) sent to a publisher when the opportunity arises.
Winners of the story writing competition
Full Workshop Paper
The full workshop paper can be downloaded here.
| melta_2012_ruth_wickham__azlinda_b_a_aziz.pdf |
