A teaching tool on Malay language for primary students – a case study on remedial education / Noor Farida Yasa’

Ministry of Education (MOE) has introduced remedial education classes for students who are weak in Membaca, Menulis, Mengira (3M) in order to train students in 3M. Students have problem to understand the content from a text and they cannot understands the meaning of the text. Furthermore, the factor of reading materials provided by the schools and teachers also become a problem in terms of vocabulary and less use of graphics. This teaching tool will focus on children under 9 years old from the remedial class to help them in mastering 3M. This project will use phonetics techniques with graphics and animation support. A part from that, the use of the ADDIE model of instructional design module is used for the subject of Malay that will focus more on remedial students. User testing was done formally at Sekolah Pusat Penyelidikan Pertanian Tun Razak, Jerantut, Pahang. After they completing the exercises and data was collected from 11 students. Students’ performance was measured after them complete the exercises and its shows that the students can improve their performances by using the teaching tools to complete the exercises. This teaching tool provides an attractive way to learn and understand about how to read in Malay language especially for remedial students and level 1 at primary school.