PROJECT PAPER Successful English Language Learning Inventory Prepared by, Noraishah Intan bt Othman P69255 GE6533 Language Learning Strategies Instruction

Population SMK Dato’ Ahmad Razali, Ampang, Selangor.

Instruments :Questionnaire & Interview

Participants No.NameGender SPM English Language Result 1DiyanahFemaleA+ 2NishaFemaleA 3MaisaraFemaleA 4NadhirahFemaleA 5HafizahFemaleA 6HazrinahFemaleA 7AqilMaleA 8AmzarMaleA 9IskandarMaleA 10AmirMaleA- A total of 10 students who just received their SPM result on March 21 st 2013

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Discussion and Implication FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL LANGUAGE AND ITS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION

FEATURES & ITS IMPLICATION FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION Feature 1 Successful language learners take advantage of the media available as a source of input to the target language Strategies for Improving Listening. Teacher should minimize the use of ‘talk and chalk method’ in English Language Classroom. Instead teacher must be creative by in cooperating various type of media in classroom as a source of listening input to English Language.

FEATURES & ITS IMPLICATION FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION Feature 2 Successful language learners are actively involved in the learning process by constantly practice to be more fluent and comfortable with the sound in English language Strategies for Improving Speaking  The English Language Classroom should not be teacher’s centered.  Teacher has to provide opportunities for students to practice the language in group activities.  Use more oral interaction activities like role playing.

FEATURES & ITS IMPLICATION FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION Feature 3 Successful language learners learn to live with uncertainty & develop strategies for making sense of the target language without wanting to understand every word of it. Strategies for Improving Listening & Reading  Teacher must not explain the meaning of certain passage word by word but focus on the meaning of the passage as a whole.

FEATURES & ITS IMPLICATION FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION Feature 4 Successful language learners learn to make use of the context to comprehend the meaning Strategies for Acquiring New Vocabulary Teacher must let the students to discover the meaning of a new vocabulary by asking them to guess the meaning from the context.

FEATURES & ITS IMPLICATION FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION Feature 5 Successful language learners are willing to appear foolish or a bit slow in order to learn the language by asking for clarification any information that is unclear to them.  Teacher should entertain every questions asked by language learners because their intention is to get the clarification of any information that is unclear to them.  Teacher should not feel irritated with the questions asked.

FEATURES & ITS IMPLICATION FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION Feature 6 Successful language learners are independent learners as they monitor and check their own performance  Teacher should avoid spoon- feeding their language learners because successful language learners are very independent learners and they learn better if they are given opportunities to monitor and check their own performance.

FEATURES & ITS IMPLICATION FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION Feature 7 Successful language learners actively participate even when she/he in not called on to perform by asking question as a way to be noticed and to take part in the conversation. Strategies for Improving Speaking Teacher should always provide opportunities for language learners to communicate in English such as having a small group discussion on a certain topic. This is to ensure that everybody could get the opportunities to be involved in the conversation.

FEATURES & ITS IMPLICATION FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION Feature 8 Successful language learners are having a strong drive to communicate or to learn from communication and willing to persevere to get the message across. Teacher has to provide challenging communicative activities because successful language learners is very determine to learn the language.

FEATURES & ITS IMPLICATION FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION Feature 9 Successful language learners read English materials extensively and for different purposes. Strategies for Improving Reading Teacher has to encourage the language learners to read English materials for pleasure. This is because normally an average or weak language learners only read educational materials for the sake of passing the examination.

FEATURES & ITS IMPLICATION FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION Feature 10 Successful language learners learn to make intelligent guesses. As successful language leaners are good in making intelligent guesses, teacher should make use of language games in language classroom where students will enjoy the lesson and be able to make intelligent guesses.

FEATURES & ITS IMPLICATION FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION Feature 11 Successful language learners are like good detectives. They are always looking for clues that will help them understand how the language works.  Teacher should provide meaningful and challenging task to language learners.  The feature of being a good detective reveals that they prefer discovery learning rather teacher provide them with all the information.

FEATURES & ITS IMPLICATION FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION Feature 12 Successful language learners attend to meaning, not just to surface or structure of grammar Strategies for Improving Grammar. Teacher should use implicit method in teaching grammar item by exposing the language learners with grammatical structure in context/through examples and let the students making their own generalization on the grammar rules. They can remember and use the grammar rules they discovered on their own correctly rather than the teacher explicitly explain the structure of grammar through formulas or diagrams.

FEATURES & ITS IMPLICATION FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION Feature 13 Successful language learners are highly motivated to improve their English proficiency in terms of grammar because they make errors work for them Strategies for Improving Grammar and Writing  Teacher must be very particular in underlining their students errors in essay especially grammar mistakes. This is because successful English language learners analyze their mistakes and try to correct it on their own.  Teacher has to avoid correcting the students errors because students will become demotivated to acquire the grammar knowledge.

Prepared for, Prof. Dr. Mohamed Amin Bin Embi Thank You