Preschool Teacher Preparedness

Introduction

Aini and Laily (2010) conducted a cross sectional research involving three hundred preschool teachers which were drawn from selection population of twenty-five teachers from three different types of kindergarten found in the four states; Northern, Central, Eastern and Southern zone of west Malaysia. The purpose of this research is about assessing the level of preparedness of preschool teacher in imparting environmental education (EE) into the young children. However, there is no aims and research questions is mention within the article.

In the introduction section, the authors mentioned about the environmental issues that need to be addressed in the country, there were many action was taken in the development plans but

The article is too wordy and certain statements are irrelevant to the study. it is also slightly difficult to understand the article that has no subheadings such as data analysis, procedure, and etc.

The worst and disappointed part is that this article does not have proof reading, there were several errors in spelling and also confusing statement. For example, “Unless children develop a sense of respect and caring for the natural environment during their early years, they are at risk of never developing such attitudes later in life” extracted from the article of Aini and Laily (2010) on page

273, the author have forgotten to insert ‘do not’ within the text between the word children and develop. For this particular statement, the authors trying to tell that if the children do not develop the sense of responsibility for the environment in their young ae then these children are at a high chance of never developed such attitudes in later years. Other than this, there is a word of

“principles” in the article page 275 where it was misspelled and it should be spelled as principals.

Overall, the article is properly referenced with APA style referencing and the