The Use of Sing along Song in the learning of the Possessive Adjective and Possessive Pronoun

Nurnadirah Binti Khairul Annuar Asya’Ari,Melor Md Yunus

doi:10.6007/ijarbss/v11-i6/10244

Nurnadirah Binti Khairul Annuar Asya’Ari, Melor Md Yunus

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https://doi.org/10.6007/ijarbss/v11-i6/10244

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Abstract

The pupils at a rural school were struggling to master the usage of Possessive Adjective and Possessive Pronoun .This action research was done to improve the usage of the Possessive adjective (PA) and Possessive pronoun (PP) among the pupils of a rural school with the use of the sing along song. This action research involved 16 year 4 low proficiency pupils of a rural school. The data was collected by using the test score of their pretest,post test and structured interview.This action research adopt the Kemmis and Mctaggart cyclic process.The finding shows that the sing along song helped in improving the usage of Possessive Adjective and Possessive Pronoun among the pupils.The pupils retain the improvement in their ability to identify and differentiate each types of the pronouns when the pupil’s score increase in their post test and also in their score for the second interview.

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The widespread of the pandemic,Covid 19 all throughout the world has changed the norm of lives
This situation has become an obstacle in their learning of grammar rules.Possessive Adjective and Possessive Pronoun are one of the grammar rule that has to be taught to the pupils as they enter the second level of their primary schooling
Possessive adjective (PA) is use to imply a person’s possession over something, Possessive pronoun (PP) does not accompany by noun when it is used in a sentence,while PA is used prior to the noun which usually refer to the item that belongs to a person (Milne, 2019)

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Introduction

The widespread of the pandemic,Covid 19 all throughout the world has changed the norm of lives. The school has been closed down in order to break the chain of the spreading. there has been a decline in the number of cases in the country the situation continues to be alarming and safety precautions continues to be taken seriously (Yusof, 2020) These situation has sent the teacher to a new norm of teaching which is the Home-Based learning (Rajaendram, 2020). The pupils are known to be struggling in the learning of the targeted language.The struggles of the pupils in learning English is much contributed to the fact that they do not converse in the language in their daily lives This situation has become an obstacle in their learning of grammar rules.Possessive Adjective and Possessive Pronoun are one of the grammar rule that has to be taught to the pupils as they enter the second level of their primary schooling. This concept of PA and PP were difficult for the pupils to understand because in their first language which is Iban language uses only one pronoun “iya” to refer to the belongings of a person regardless of the plural and singular and their gender

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