?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.iab.edu.my%2Fv2%2F1175%2F&rft.title=Malay+and+english+language+achievement+in+technologically+rich+and+non-technologically+rich+Malaysian+schools.&rft.creator=Eng%2C+Ang+Jit.&rft.subject=L+Education+(General)&rft.description=One+of+the+major+driving+forces+in+the+current+school+restructuring+efforts+in+Malaysia+and+in+other+parts+of+the+world+is+the+belief+that+the+current+school+system%2C+built+on+the+19th+century+industrial+efficiency+model+is+inadequate+to+meet+the+needs+of+the+21st+century+that+will+be+transformed+by+technology+(Fouts%2C+2000).+In+1997%2C+the+Ministry+of+Education+Malaysia+in+tandem+with+the+government+initiated+the+Multimedia+Super+Corridor+Project+from+which+the+Malaysian+Smart+School+Conceptual+Plan+emerged.+In+this+plan%2C+the+Ministry+planned+to+introduce+computer-assisted+instruction+in+stages+in+the+schools+beginning+in+1999.+This+plan+will+eventually+encompass+all+schools+by+the+year+2010+(MOE%2C+1997).%0D%0AThis+study+focused+on+the+Malay+language+and+English+language+achievement+of+Smart+School+students.+Malay+language+was+chosen+because+it+is+the+national+language+of+Malaysia+and+the+medium+of+instruction+for+all+academic+subjects+in+Malaysian+high+schools.+The+researcher+assumed+that+a+good+command+of+the+Malay+language+could+be+translated+to+better+performance+in+other+academic+subjects+that+were+not+within+the+scope+of+this+study.+English+language+was+chosen+because+it+is+the+designated+second+language+in+education+and+it+is+the+language+most+frequently+used+and+associated+with+computers%2C+software%2C+the+internet+and+other+related+technologies.+%0D%0AThe+purpose+of+the+study+is+to+compare+the+Malay+and+English+language+achievement+of+ninth-grade+Malaysian+students+in+technologically+rich+and+nontechnologically+rich+schools.+A+quasi-experimental+non-randomized+pretest-posttest+control+group+research+design+was+used+to+test+the+hypotheses+in+this+study.+In+this+study%2C+the+independent+variable+was+the+type+of+program+in+which+the+ninth-grade+student+were+enrolled.+The+dependent+variables+were+the+English+and+Malay+language+achievement+of+the+ninth-grade+students+(as+mentioned+by+the+Malay+Language+Proficiency+Assessment+and+the+English+Language+Proficiency+Assessment).++%0D%0AThere+was+a+statistically+significant+difference+(p%3C.001)between+the+Malay+language+achievement+of+ninth-grade+Malaysian+students+who+had+attended+technologically+rich+schools+and+the+Malay+language+achievement+of+ninth-grade+Malaysian+students+who+had+attended+non-technologically+rich+schools+and+the+difference+was+educationally+meaningful+(%E2%88%86+%3D+0.41).+%0D%0AThere+was+a+statistically+significant+difference+(p%3C.001)+between+the+English+language+achievement+of+ninth-grade+Malaysian+students+who+had+attended+technologically+rich+schools+and+the+English+language+achievement+of+ninth-+grade+Malaysian+students+who+had+attended+non-technologically+rich+schools+and+the+difference+was+educationally+meaningful+(%E2%88%86+%3D+0.80).%0D%0AThe+findings+suggest+that+the+Smart+Schools+Program+has+had+a+favorable+influence+on+the+Malay+and+English+language+achievement+of+ninth-grade+students.+Enhanced+performance+in+English+language+(%E2%88%86+%3D+0.80)+by+Smart+School+students+is+in+particular%2C+meaningful+given+the+general+decline+in+the+English+language+proficiency+among+high+school+students+that+has+occurred+during+the+past+several+years.+Perhaps%2C+the+Smart+School+Program+and+the+use+of+computer-assisted+instruction+in+language+learning+can+arrest+the+decline+in+the+English+language.&rft.publisher=College+of+Education%2C+University+of+Houston%2C+Texas+United+States+of+America&rft.type=Other&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.iab.edu.my%2Fv2%2F1175%2F1%2FDoctorate%2520Thesis%2520Abstract%2520for%2520IAB%2520Dr%2520James.pdf&rft.identifier=++Eng%2C+Ang+Jit.+++Malay+and+english+language+achievement+in+technologically+rich+and+non-technologically+rich+Malaysian+schools.++College+of+Education%2C+University+of+Houston%2C+Texas+United+States+of+America.+++++