The Effectiveness of Storytelling Module in Improving Daycare Educators’ Confidence and Proficiency in Storytelling in English

As a step to improve the level of English among Malaysians, it is believed that English should be exposed to children as early as 0–3 years, and not introduced at the kindergarten ages of 4–6 which is the current practice in the Malaysian education curriculum. However, at daycare level, where childr...

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Main Authors:	Wan Jumani, Fauzi, Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan, Ezihaslinda, Ngah, Fatimah, Ali, Noor Azlinda, Zainal Abidin, Anita, Abdul Rani, Haslinda, Hashim, Airin, AbdulGhani
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	American Scientific Publishers 2018
Subjects:	PE English
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spelling	ump-189262018-09-04T07:44:48Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18926/ The Effectiveness of Storytelling Module in Improving Daycare Educators’ Confidence and Proficiency in Storytelling in English Wan Jumani, Fauzi Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan Ezihaslinda, Ngah Fatimah, Ali Noor Azlinda, Zainal Abidin Anita, Abdul Rani Haslinda, Hashim Airin, AbdulGhani PE English As a step to improve the level of English among Malaysians, it is believed that English should be exposed to children as early as 0–3 years, and not introduced at the kindergarten ages of 4–6 which is the current practice in the Malaysian education curriculum. However, at daycare level, where children of working parents spend at least an average of 8 hours a day, many of the daycare educators are secondary school leavers with basic English language proficiency. In order for the children to acquire a new language, the daycare educators themselves have to first be fluent, proficient and confident in using the target language. Hence, a knowledge transfer programme with 30 daycare educators under Pahang Daycare Providers Association was kickstarted with the aim to develop and harness English communication skills through two modules: Communication English and Effective Storytelling Techniques. This paper focuses on the storytelling module, its approaches to enhance daycare educators’ confidence and proficiency and discusses the effectiveness of this module based on the perceptions of the daycare educators who participated in the knowledge transfer programme. American Scientific Publishers 2018 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18926/1/The%20Effectiveness%20of%20Storytelling%20Module%20in%20Improving%20Daycare1.pdf Wan Jumani, Fauzi and Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan and Ezihaslinda, Ngah and Fatimah, Ali and Noor Azlinda, Zainal Abidin and Anita, Abdul Rani and Haslinda, Hashim and Airin, AbdulGhani (2018) The Effectiveness of Storytelling Module in Improving Daycare Educators’ Confidence and Proficiency in Storytelling in English. Advanced Science Letters, 24 (1). pp. 175-177. ISSN 1936-6612 https://doi.org/10.1166/asl.2018.11950 doi: 10.1166/asl.2018.11950
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description	As a step to improve the level of English among Malaysians, it is believed that English should be exposed to children as early as 0–3 years, and not introduced at the kindergarten ages of 4–6 which is the current practice in the Malaysian education curriculum. However, at daycare level, where children of working parents spend at least an average of 8 hours a day, many of the daycare educators are secondary school leavers with basic English language proficiency. In order for the children to acquire a new language, the daycare educators themselves have to first be fluent, proficient and confident in using the target language. Hence, a knowledge transfer programme with 30 daycare educators under Pahang Daycare Providers Association was kickstarted with the aim to develop and harness English communication skills through two modules: Communication English and Effective Storytelling Techniques. This paper focuses on the storytelling module, its approaches to enhance daycare educators’ confidence and proficiency and discusses the effectiveness of this module based on the perceptions of the daycare educators who participated in the knowledge transfer programme.
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author	Wan Jumani, Fauzi Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan Ezihaslinda, Ngah Fatimah, Ali Noor Azlinda, Zainal Abidin Anita, Abdul Rani Haslinda, Hashim Airin, AbdulGhani
author_facet	Wan Jumani, Fauzi Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan Ezihaslinda, Ngah Fatimah, Ali Noor Azlinda, Zainal Abidin Anita, Abdul Rani Haslinda, Hashim Airin, AbdulGhani
author_sort	Wan Jumani, Fauzi
title	The Effectiveness of Storytelling Module in Improving Daycare Educators’ Confidence and Proficiency in Storytelling in English
title_short	The Effectiveness of Storytelling Module in Improving Daycare Educators’ Confidence and Proficiency in Storytelling in English
title_full	The Effectiveness of Storytelling Module in Improving Daycare Educators’ Confidence and Proficiency in Storytelling in English
title_fullStr	The Effectiveness of Storytelling Module in Improving Daycare Educators’ Confidence and Proficiency in Storytelling in English
title_full_unstemmed	The Effectiveness of Storytelling Module in Improving Daycare Educators’ Confidence and Proficiency in Storytelling in English
title_sort	effectiveness of storytelling module in improving daycare educators’ confidence and proficiency in storytelling in english
publisher	American Scientific Publishers
publishDate	2018
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The Effectiveness of Storytelling Module in Improving Daycare Educators’ Confidence and Proficiency in Storytelling in English

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