E-Proceeding International Language and Education Innovation Competition 2024

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is important in boosting students’ capability to communicate more confidently in English. However, without direct interaction with the trained facilitators, the delivery tends to be ineffective. UTeM has organized “Hello Talk!” program that involved 20 local and international participants during Series I, where they were first trained by lecturers from the Centre for Language Learning, UTeM on 3 training modules that include Charades, Train the Brain and Pronounce It Perfectly. During Series II, they switched role to facilitators in executing the modules for 33 participants from Sekolah Kebangsaan Tanjong Tohor. At the end of each series, feedback was collected among all the 20 facilitators. Of all the respondents, 95 % agree that; the TOT program is relevant as their preparation for series II program and they had positive perception on the program. 100% agree that they gained the desired knowledge from the ToT program and did have knowledge in conducting the modules for primary school students. Meanwhile, for series II, 90% agree that they did have skills in facilitating the school students and manage to transfer the skills learnt from Series I program to the school students, 80% agree that they were able to deploy the skills gained from Series I program in facilitating the school students, 90% agree that they did recognize their improvement in teaching skills and gained educational benefits out of it, and lastly 95% agree that they did help to improve the well-being of the local community, which are the school students themselves.

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) plays an important role in enabling learners to communicate in real-life situations. Delivering this among primary school students is however deemed ineffective without direct interaction between them and the instructors. In conjunction with UTeM Winter School 2024 (UWINS 2024), UTeM has organized an educational CSR program “Hello Talk!” for 33 participants from Sekolah Kebangsaan Tanjong Tohor, which is categorized as a low enrollment school. Participants were divided into 7 groups while each group was being facilitated by 2 to 3 international participants of UWINS 2024 from Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. These facilitators were earlier being trained by lecturers from the Centre for Language Learning, UTeM to execute all the training modules that include Charades, Train the Brain and Pronounce It Perfectly. At the end of the program, feedback was collected among the 33 participants as well as 6 school teachers as observers on all activities conducted for each module. Of all the respondents, 94 % agree that the program is relevant to them, 97% agree that they did have knowledge in English communication, 95% agree that they had positive perception on the program and 92% agree that they have gained desired knowledge from this program.