Reading poetry in secondary School: A case study
This study sought to identify how Form Five students feel about reading poetry. It also aims at identifying the factors of the difficulties as well as the strategies employed by these students whenever they faced these difficulties. Data for this study were collected through the administration...
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| Format: | Final Year Project Report |
| Language: | English English |
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
2007
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/47499/1/Atung%2024%20pgs.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/47499/2/Atung%20ft.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/47499/ |
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| Summary: | This study sought to identify how Form Five students feel about reading
poetry. It also aims at identifying the factors of the difficulties as well as the
strategies employed by these students whenever they faced these difficulties. Data for
this study were collected through the administration of a series of focus group
interviews over a period of two weeks by using open-ended interview questions. The
interview sessions are audio- taped, transcribed, analyzed and reported in percentages
and described qualitatively. There were fifteen Form five students in one of the rural
school in Sarawak involved in this study.
The findings indicated that a majority of the students dislike reading poetry. A
majority of them also have difficulties in understanding some archaic, unfamiliar
words, to interpret the message of the poems as well as the meaning of the poems as
they claimed that the poems were linguistically difficult. On the other hand, most
students prefer consulting the dictionary, teacher, family members or friends
whenever they faced difficulties in understanding the poems in order to address the
difficulties they faced in reading poetry |
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