Tutong Sixth Form Centre (PTE Tutong) organised another session of Teachers' Forum for the teaching staff yesterday.

The inaugural forum was held November last year, and had continued with a series of presentations of classroom-based education research results since the start of the year.

Dayang Anney Susanty binti Jabih, the Head of the Malay Language Department presented on confusion when writing argumentative type essays.

A total of fourteen students' essay scripts were analysed and the findings revealed common mistakes that can serve as references so that such shortcomings can be overcome.

It was found that 60 per cent showed confusion with various aspects of writing argumentative essays.

This was perplexing because the essay topic being used for this study was a highly relevant issue based on communal experience.

Nonetheless, a collaborator of Anney, Dayang Suzilindawati binti Haji Zaidin added, "in general, we found the quality of students' writings improved and generated much lesser common struggles that tend to worsen their assessment marks."

Rather than rote-learn argumentative writing, which is following writing templates as per reference books, highlighting the importance of creative freedom, while keeping in check with what has been compared in class between different standards of essays, is vital.

The second presentation of the afternoon saw Awang Haji Rosaimi bin Haji Abdul Manap, a Syariah lecturer, presenting on behalf of the Islamic Religious Knowledge (IRK) Department.

He identified areas in A-Level Syariah and Usuluddin specifically, that he found students struggle with immensely. Students were interviewed and analysis of their responses were utilised to form constructive teaching implications.

Oratory thoughts - during classroom dialogue with questioning, most students were found to be deficient when comparing in details, mostly struggling to specify compelling reasons in sufficient details and also judging when exactly do the questions require argumentative and critical reasoning.

This is understandable as both Syariah and Usuluddin are often thought of as a subject only to be rote-learned.

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