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RESEARCH PROJECTS

Creating an Appropriate Environment for Brain-Based
English Language Learning at Pre-school Level

The future of Malaysia after 2020 will depend on Solutions must implement new knowledge, and bring a
Research in Languages and Linguistics
children now in pre-school. They will need the right kind high level of beneft at low cost within a reasonable time
of education to take part in an increasingly international frame. For example, modern multimedia technologies
workforce, and for that they will need internationally can be used to enable teachers to teach spoken
acceptable standards of English. The problem is that English in the classroom even though they cannot
many pre-school children are taught by untrained speak it well themselves. There are major savings
teachers who do not themselves have a suffcient to be made if teachers just need to be shown how to
command of English. It is very diffcult to recover from a use the technology, instead of having to take long and
bad start in English, and for many students going up to expensive English profciency courses. Procedures
university it is already too late. Good English teaching in are already in place to ensure that the fndings of the
pre-school is not an option, but is absolutely essential. academia research will lead directly to the production
In the present circumstances large numbers of of improved materials for the teaching and learning of
Malaysian children are being trained for unemployment. English in the early years.

Funding Opportunity
RM 200,000.00

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