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Using Gold Standard Project Based Learning for Intermediate Year Three Pupils to Enhance English Speaking Skill: A Conceptual Paper
The effectiveness of teaching methods has been studied by researchers around the globe. According to many past studies, Project Based Learning (PBL) is one of the teaching methods that benefit the pupils’ performance in the classroom. One of the benefits is to enhance pupils’ English speaking skill. In this paper, the researchers intend to provide literature review and past studies on Gold Standard Project Based Learning (GSPBL). GSPBL was designed by Buck Institute for Education. The findings of past studies indicate that GSPBL could assist English teachers to improve pupils’ speaking practice during class activities. After investigating on how GSPBL could enhance the pupils’ English speaking skill from the literature review, the researchers are proposing this study to be carried out at an urban government school in Kuala Lumpur. The objective of this research is to investigate pupils’ speaking performance in English speaking skill before and after the implementation of Gold Standard Project Based Learning. There will be 30 of intermediate Year Three pupils involved in this study. The researchers will conduct a qualitative case study for eight weeks to investigate pupils’ speaking performance before and after the implementation of Gold Standard PBL. Observation, interview and documents will be used as data collection tools. The documents are Classroom Based Assessment report. The data from the observation notes, interview responses and documents will be analysed thematically. The findings of this paper would benefit the English teachers with regard to equipping them with the measures to carry out GSPBL more effectively as classroom activity. Apparently, the pupils could also enhance their English language speaking skill after GSPBL has been introduced and implemented as their classroom activity.
KeywordsYear Three PupilsEnglish Speaking SkillEnglish as a Second LanguageGold Standard Project Based Learning
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