Validity and Reliability of Questionnaire on Preschool Teachers' Self-efficacy in the Teaching of English as a Second Language

This study aims to determine the validity and reliability of a questionnaire on preschool teachers' self-efficacy in the teaching of English as a second language in Malaysia. This survey-designed study used questionnaire as the instrument. The questionnaire contains 87 items under three constructs; teachers' self-efficacy, teachers' English language proficiency, and teaching strategies. Five experts were involved in validating the questionnaire while the reliability coefficient values were obtained from 200 preschool teachers of three districts. The results have shown that the validity of the questionnaire is high with the coefficient value of .924 based on the consensus from the experts. The Cronbach's Alpha coefficient values of the reliability for self-efficacy construct was .921, English language proficiency construct was .961, and teaching strategies construct was .976. Therefore, the questionnaire has been proven to have high validity and reliability which is appropriate to measure preschool teachers' self-efficacy, English language proficiency, as well as teaching strategies in the teaching of English as a second language.&nbsp

The Malaysian Millennials' Characteristics: an Investigation on Selected Public Universities

This paper aims to explore the characteristics of millennials as espoused in most literature. There are seven characteristics of millennials and each characteristic became the focus of the present study. As most literature on the millennials' characteristics is based on western context, this paper looks into the resemblance of the millennial characteristics' descriptions among the Malaysian public university students. Employing a survey, data for the study were collected using an adapted questionnaire. The respondents for the study were selected Malaysian millennials who were social sciences undergraduates in nine public universities. A cluster sampling method resulted in a total of 646 respondents who took part in the survey. It was discovered that the selected Malaysian millennials confirm some of the attributes in the seven characteristics of millennials