I-Think Mind Mapping: An Approach to Improve Students’ Interest and Motivation in Malaysian Nationhood Course at Universiti Utara Malaysia

Nor Azlah Sham Rambely, Mohamed Ali Haniffa, Rashidah Mamat and Zulhilmi Paidi

World Journal of English Language, 2022, vol. 12, issue 2, 308

Abstract: Malaysian Nationhood course is an introduction to the history of nation building that covers the period from pre-independence until the establishment of post-independence government policies. In addition, the course discusses the fundamental factors that have taken place in the development of Malaysian history and lists the factors that have been the turning point in the country's history. This course is very important in building a new generation of Malaysians using history as the foundation of nation building. But the students' reactions gave the negative perception of the Malaysian Nationhood course by stating that it was a heavy subject, uninteresting, too many facts and boring lectures. As a result, they have reacted negatively when they were in the classroom. These include coming late to the class, skip class, talking during lectures, reading other course notes, looking at cell phones and often falling asleep. To overcome this problem, the I-Think mind mapping method is used in learning activities. Qualitative methods are applied through observation, activities using Mind Map and Focus Group Discussions. The results show that activities carried out through I-Think mind mapping have had a positive impact on increasing students' interest and motivation in this course. However, in this large-scale classroom, lecturers will need to diversify their teaching techniques and other teaching aids to keep students engaged in the lectures.

Date: 2022
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/wjel/article/download/21674/13409 (application/pdf)
https://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/wjel/article/view/21674 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jfr:wjel11:v:12:y:2022:i:2:p:308

Access Statistics for this article

World Journal of English Language is currently edited by Joe Nelson

More articles in World Journal of English Language from Sciedu Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sciedu Press ().