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Chiew Leng Ng; Cheng Meng Chew – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
Despite statistics learning becoming more important during this information explosion era, many students still deem the subject complex and challenging. Measures of dispersion, a critical component of statistical knowledge that students often struggle with, have received little attention in research on statistics education. The goal of this study…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Statistics Education, Concept Formation, Mathematical Concepts
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Khalid, Madihah; Embong, Zulmaryan – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
This research investigated students' sources and causes of errors and misconception in solving routine problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of integers. This qualitative study involved observation of eight Year 7 classes and interviews with the respective classroom teachers. Sixteen Year 7 students who exhibit…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Misconceptions, Problem Solving, Addition
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Yi Xing, Lim; Binti Mohd Fadzil, Hidayah – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
This research is driven due to significant role of textbooks possessed in a country. The purpose of this study is to analyse the Malaysian Form Two Science textbook as this learning tool may acts as one of the reason that affects national Science education. The textbook was analysed based on content element adapted from Florida University…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Content Analysis, Science Instruction
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Yunis, Melor Md; Haris, Siti Nor Fatimah – International Education Studies, 2014
This paper investigates the use of discourse markers among Form Four second language learner (SLL) students in essay writing. The objectives of this study are to discover how Form Four SLL students use discourse markers in their essay writing and to identify the teachers' perception about the usage of discourse markers among students. 30…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Essays, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Manokaran, Janaki; Ramalingam, Chithra; Adriana, Karen – English Language Teaching, 2013
This research is a corpus-based study of secondary and college ESL Malaysian learner's written work by identifying and classifying the types of errors in the Past Tense Auxiliary "Be". This research studied the past tense auxiliary "be", types of past tense auxiliary "be" errors and frequency of past tense auxiliary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Morphemes, Verbs
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Jishvithaa, Joanna M.; Tabitha, M.; Kalajahi, Seyed Ali Rezvani – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
This research paper aims to explore the usage of the English Auxiliary "Be" Present Tense Verb, using corpus based method among Malaysian form 4 and form 5 students. This study is conducted by identifying and classifying the types of errors in the Auxiliary "Be" Present Tense verb in students' compositions from the MCSAW corpus…
Descriptors: Morphemes, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Second Language Learning
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Loke, Darina Lokeman; Ali, Juliana; Anthony, Norin Norain Zulkifli – English Language Teaching, 2013
This article presents a corpus-based investigation on English prepositions of time presented in the argumentative essays of Form 4 and Form 5 Malaysian secondary students in the MCSAW corpus. The aims were to find out the distribution patterns and the common errors in the use of preposition of time, "on" and "at". This corpus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)