Journal of English as a Foreign Language Teaching and Research (JEFLTR)
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2025): Journal of English as a Foreign Language Teaching and Research (JEFLTR)

Can English Camp Predict The Interest of Mountain Tribe Children in Binaiya in Learning English?

Nurlaila Sopamena (Institut Agama Islam Negeri Ambon)
Muhammad Kashai Ramdhani Pelupessy (Institut Agama Islam Negeri Ambon)
Abdul Azis Mahu (Institut Agama Islam Negeri Ambon)
Nurmalita Sopaheluwakan (Sekolah Menengah Pertama Negeri 20 Maluku Tengah)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Mar 2025

Abstract

The toughest challenge for education policy makers is to provide programmes that can help mountain tribe children to be immersed into the English learning process, so that they can overcome their learning difficulties. This research highlights this by providing an English camp for mountain tribe children at the foot of Binaiya mountain, Central Maluku, Indonesia. Through a quasi-experiment on a group of 13 people, it was found that English camp strongly predicted the interest of mountain tribe children in Binaiya in learning English (p = 0.009). This is because English camp can help children immerse themselves into the learning process and facilitate their self-determination and comfort. However, the limitations of this study are that it did not fully control for threat factors and present a comparison group. Therefore, the recommendation for future researchers is to pay attention to this, and make self-determination and comfort as moderator and/or mediator variables in predicting English camp on interest in learning English.

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Journal Info

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jefltr

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Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

Description

Journal of English as a Foreign Language Teaching and Research JEFLTR is an international peer reviewed journal that covers the aspects related with the process of learning teaching and research English language It provides an academic platform for professionals and researchers interested on areas ...