Exploring the infusion of thinking skills and EQ in lecturers’ instructions at a premiere polytechnic / Zetty Harisha Harun...[et al.]

in the polytechnic’s ESL classroom in terms of the lecturers’ classroom
instructions in relation to their questioning techniques and responses. This
is looked at how much thinking and EQ are being infused through the
lecturers’ instructions during the lesson. A study which consists of three
methods of data collection; observation of the lessons, video-taped recording
of the same lessons and the lesson transcriptions was conducted to
investigate the matter. Five ESL lecturers from Politeknik Premiere Sultan
Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah were chosen as subjects of this study. They
were observed once in their classroom during which their lessons were
video- taped for analysis. The instrument used is known as GRAMEITS. A
correlational analysis was also carried out through the bivariate analysis
using SPSS Version 17. This is to determine the reliability and validity of
the data and the instrument. Thus, a reliability r=0.999 between the two
raters indicates a high reliability and validity.