期刊名称：Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (e-FLT)
电子版ISSN：0219-9874
出版年度：2006
卷号：3
期号：2
出版社：National University of Singapore
摘要：Environmental education, considered to be a “blueprint for the future” (Ryan & Ray, 1991, p.7) emerged in the 1970s in recognition of the rapidly escalating deterioration of the environment. It is now a part of education around the world, as human damage to the environment has become a major international issue (Jacobs & Goatly, 2000). In the Malaysian education system, from the primary to secondary levels, students are introduced to environmental issues through a range of core subjects. The purpose of this study is to investigate students’ perception of environment topics in the English language syllabus. It seeks to find out whether students’ gender and proficiency levels have any effects on their perceptions of the environmental topics. In addition, the study aims to find out if students feel that these topics help in the improvement of their language skills. The sample for this study comprised 100 Form Five students from a Malaysian secondary school. A two-part questionnaire is designed as instrument. Mean Score Ranking and ANOVA were the two main methods used to analyse the data. A structured interview was used to substantiate the quantitative data. The findings reveal that gender seems to have limited bearing on students’ perceptions of the environment. However, the higher the proficiency level the more positive is students’ attitude towards the environment. In addition, students seem to be of the opinion that they gain more content knowledge than English language skills from studying the environmental topics.
