Investigation report

STUDENTS AND LECTURES RESPON FOR THE CHANGES OF FINAL EXAM PAPER FROM DUAL LANGUAGE TO FULLY ENGLISH

AIM
To investigate the problems face by polytechenic students of semester 6 when final exam papers are change from dual language to English during their 5th semester.

METHOD
In this investigation, the experiment is conducted to semester 6 student due to their experience of going thru final exam papers from dual language to english medium. The method used in this experiment is survey forms and interview.

PROCEDURE
1. Survey forms are created and interview questions are derived. 2. Survey forms are distributed to semester 6 students. 3. Interview is conducted to lectures to gain responds from lectures, in another hand to get the static estimation of an subject when it been taught in dual language and English. 4. After procedure 2 and 3 is applied, result of the methods are discuss among group members to reach a conclusion.

RESULT DISCUSSION
From the above investigation, we deduce that students do prefer final exam papers are maintain in dual language. In another hand lectures do support students that final exam papers are maintain in dual language but with terms and condition are applied. The terms and condition been applied by lectures are during class lectures subjects are thought in English but final exam papers should be in dual language even in university standarts lectures are been conducted in engish medium ana final exam, in dual language.

The reason students do support final exam papers need to be in dual language is because dual language is more easier to understand compare to fully English medium where most of the students hind hard to understand the difference in malay and English term.

However, these problems can be overcome by maintaining final exam papers in dual language for old course code students starting from January 2009 to July 2010 batch until their semester 6.

CONCLUSION