Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been widely used in the context of second language acquisition which promotes actual language use. The purpose of the postgraduate research study is to identify primary school English teachers’ perception on TBLT. Thus, in order to collect the significant data, a survey questionnaire is carried out to gather the useful information. Therefore, this pilot study is conducted before the final study intended to explore any methodological issues arising. Hence, a survey questionnaire was developed and the purpose of this study is to test the ‘Primary School English Teachers’ Perception on TBLT’ survey questionnaire. The findings of the study focused on face validity, content validity, test-retest validity and internal consistency reliability. Some positive and negative responses were received throughout the study. In a nutshell, the instrument has a high face and content validity, fairly high correlation coefficient as well as high level of Cronbach’s alpha.
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To Cite this Article: Feng, C. K., & Yamat, H. (2019). Testing on the Validity and Reliability of Task Based Language Teaching Questionnaire. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9(12), 474–485.
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