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The pupils at a rural school were struggling to master the usage of Possessive Adjective and Possessive Pronoun .This action research was done to improve the usage of the Possessive adjective (PA) and Possessive pronoun (PP) among the pupils of a rural school with the use of the sing along song. This action research involved 16 year 4 low proficiency pupils of a rural school. The data was collected by using the test score of their pretest,post test and structured interview.This action research adopt the Kemmis and Mctaggart cyclic process.The finding shows that the sing along song helped in improving the usage of Possessive Adjective and Possessive Pronoun among the pupils.The pupils retain the improvement in their ability to identify and differentiate each types of the pronouns when the pupil’s score increase in their post test and also in their score for the second interview.
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To Cite this Article: Asya’ari, N. binti K. A., & Yunus, M. M. (2021). The Use of Sing along Song in the learning of the Possessive Adjective and Possessive Pronoun. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(6), 1154–1164.
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