A Research About The Impacts Of Malaysia National-type School(Chinese) For Non-native Speakers In SJKC Wu Teck,Klang

The number of non-native speakers in Malaysia National-type School(Chinese)(Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina,SJKC)has increased and it occupies about 15%of the total students.This research is to find out the effects of Chinese Primary School’s education system towards non-native speakers’ students and promote suggestions to reduce their learning disparity with the native speakers’ students.This thesis has four chapters.First chapter is the introduction which is to clarify the significance of the topic,the overview of the current education,the research design and the related theories of the research.The students’ amount of SJKC Wu Teck is increasing rapidly every year and the non-native speakers occupy around 10%.The non-native speakers choose to study in SJKC with different reason,but the main purpose is to learn proper mandarin.Hence,the researcher proposes that these students should be concerned and guided in first language learning environment.Second chapter is to clarify the basic information of the selected school,the source of teachers and the students’ background,followed by the analysis of the data collected.This research is to find out the effects of curricular,teaching materials and teaching methods applied to the non-native speakers through questionnaire from the Chinese teachers in the school.Third chapter focuses on the discussion of the effects to the non-native speakers from the curricular,the teaching material and the teaching method.After discussion,the problems faced by non-native speakers will be summarized based on the analysis of the data collected.Forth chapter emphasizes on the suggestions to help the non-native speakers to overcome their problems.As a result,the setting of the curricular is not helpful for the Level One non-native speakers and leads to retardation of the learning progress.Besides,the length and the genre of the passage in teaching materials are not suitable as well.It should follow the principle of teaching materials for writing to consider the psychological development of children.Furthermore,methods of teaching Mandarin as a first language applied in the class and reinforcement activities are not given to the non-native speakers due to time constraints.Pinyin(Chinese Phonic)teaching should be proposed to the non-native speakers during the admission to Year One of SJKC to support the basic learning of the Mandarin characters.If the non-native speakers can build up the basic skills of Mandarin during the"critical period hypothesis",they might achieve to the same level as native speakers’students.