RollRoll Dice: An Effective Method to Improve Writing Skills among Year 3 Pupils in Constructing SVOA Sentences

Abstract

Recently, the incompetency in writing skills has been the main concern among the Malaysian Primary School. Sentence construction is considered the biggest obstacle, which hinders the pupils from obtaining a good result in the classroom-based assessment (PBD) especially among Chinese primary schools. Therefore, the researcher proposes an effective alternative in teaching sentence construction. This research aims to deal with the incompetency in writing skills and helps to improve the ability in sentence construction among Year 3 mixed-abilities classroom through 'RollRoll Dice' method. The dice serves as the core of the method introduced. The study focuses on constructing Subject, Verb, Object and Adverb sentences based on the pupils' level of proficiency. Pre and post-test were used as the main data collection method for the quantitative study. 30 pupils from an urban school in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia who were mostly weak in sentence construction were selected as the participants. The research findings revealed that 'RollRoll Dice' served as an effective method in enabling the pupils to understand the sentence pattern, consequently helped in improving writing skills especially in constructing SVOA sentences. The finding is believed to be beneficial to the practitioners, especially the ESL teachers and educators as 'RollRoll Dice' can be used as an insightful alternative in teaching writing skills. The recommendations that can be derived from this study is that, it would be better for the future researcher to carry out the study for a longer period of time.