Factors affecting students' speaking skills acquisition among Malaysian undergraduates French foreign language learners

The present study is intended to investigate the problems encountered by Malaysian learners undertaking French as a foreign language in higher education institution in Malaysia. This study is to identify the factors that affect the development of learners’ speaking ability and find how these factors...

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Main Author:	Berbiche Mariama
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English English
Published:	2020
Subjects:	P118-118.75 Language acquisition
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spelling	my-ums-ep.419162024-12-10T03:15:28Z Factors affecting students' speaking skills acquisition among Malaysian undergraduates French foreign language learners 2020 Berbiche Mariama P118-118.75 Language acquisition The present study is intended to investigate the problems encountered by Malaysian learners undertaking French as a foreign language in higher education institution in Malaysia. This study is to identify the factors that affect the development of learners’ speaking ability and find how these factors have contributed to the hindrance of learners’ speaking. The study also aims to suggest some solutions and strategies that can help Malaysian French foreign language learners to overcome these problems. To gain an in-depth understanding on the problem the researcher carried out this study using Multi-Methods design whereby the participants were investigated twice to examine and analyze the research problem from different angle employing questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The researcher used probability sampling to collect the quantitative data from (115) participants and used the purposive sampling to collect the qualitative data which consist of ten participants. From the quantitative findings, only motivation was found as a factor that prevents Malaysian French foreign language learners from speaking in French language contrarily to the qualitative findings it was revealed that motivation, anxiety, and teacher’s role are affecting Malaysian French foreign language learners speaking skill acquisition. Accordingly, these three factors are a real issue as they hinder Malaysian French foreign language learners to achieve their goal of learning French after completing their French course. 2020 Thesis https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/41916/ https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/41916/1/24%20PAGES.pdf text en public https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/41916/2/FULLTEXT.pdf text en validuser masters Universiti Malaysia Sabah Fakulti Psikologi dan Pendidikan
institution	Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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topic	P118-118.75 Language acquisition
spellingShingle	P118-118.75 Language acquisition Berbiche Mariama Factors affecting students' speaking skills acquisition among Malaysian undergraduates French foreign language learners
description	The present study is intended to investigate the problems encountered by Malaysian learners undertaking French as a foreign language in higher education institution in Malaysia. This study is to identify the factors that affect the development of learners’ speaking ability and find how these factors have contributed to the hindrance of learners’ speaking. The study also aims to suggest some solutions and strategies that can help Malaysian French foreign language learners to overcome these problems. To gain an in-depth understanding on the problem the researcher carried out this study using Multi-Methods design whereby the participants were investigated twice to examine and analyze the research problem from different angle employing questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The researcher used probability sampling to collect the quantitative data from (115) participants and used the purposive sampling to collect the qualitative data which consist of ten participants. From the quantitative findings, only motivation was found as a factor that prevents Malaysian French foreign language learners from speaking in French language contrarily to the qualitative findings it was revealed that motivation, anxiety, and teacher’s role are affecting Malaysian French foreign language learners speaking skill acquisition. Accordingly, these three factors are a real issue as they hinder Malaysian French foreign language learners to achieve their goal of learning French after completing their French course.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Berbiche Mariama
author_facet	Berbiche Mariama
author_sort	Berbiche Mariama
title	Factors affecting students' speaking skills acquisition among Malaysian undergraduates French foreign language learners
title_short	Factors affecting students' speaking skills acquisition among Malaysian undergraduates French foreign language learners
title_full	Factors affecting students' speaking skills acquisition among Malaysian undergraduates French foreign language learners
title_fullStr	Factors affecting students' speaking skills acquisition among Malaysian undergraduates French foreign language learners
title_full_unstemmed	Factors affecting students' speaking skills acquisition among Malaysian undergraduates French foreign language learners
title_sort	factors affecting students' speaking skills acquisition among malaysian undergraduates french foreign language learners
granting_institution	Universiti Malaysia Sabah
granting_department	Fakulti Psikologi dan Pendidikan
publishDate	2020
url	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/41916/1/24%20PAGES.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/41916/2/FULLTEXT.pdf
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Factors affecting students' speaking skills acquisition among Malaysian undergraduates French foreign language learners

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