Using The SVO Grid Table as a Beginner’s Guide to Write English Sentences and Improve Writing Skills among Low Proficiency Pupils in Primary School

Abstract

The pupils in primary school are taught to learn English through skills such as listening, speaking, writing and reading. In a suburban school in West Malaysia, a group of low proficiency pupils were introduced to the SVO Grid Table to see the impact in learning one of the skills, the writing skill. It was aimed to help the pupils to write simple present tense sentences with subject-verb agreement. The focus of the SVO Grid Table is to guide low proficient pupils to write English sentences with subject, verb and object. There were two experimental and control group in the study and the instrument used was assessments. The findings indicated the experimental group showed a difference in their writing assessment marks. Overall, the SVO Grid Table shows a positive effect on the pupils’ performance in writing simple sentences with the present tense. Lastly, the SVO Grid Table is hoped to give better impact on writing especially among low proficiency pupils in primary school and be usedby teachers in the next future.