The Implications of Language Arts towards Second Language Acquisition and Development of Emotional Intelligence of Learners in ESL Classroom in Malaysia

This paper aimed to identify the implications of language arts towards the second language acquisition, SLA of Year 5 pupils in ESL classroom in Malaysia. Aside from that, it is also to see how language arts can indirectly help develop the pupils’ emotional intelligence. A quantitative research design has been applied to help achieve these objectives. A questionnaire was used to collect the data from the respondents after the implementation of language arts in the several different lessons. The arts forms used were story, song, poem and chant. The lessons involved a Year 5 class with a number of 40 mixed proficiencies pupils. The school is located in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The results are presented in several tables in this paper to help answer the research questions. The use of frequencies and percentages are employed for easier understanding of the findings. The results from the descriptive statistics reflected that implementing language arts in the lesson can help with the second language acquisition of the learners. It also helps to develop their emotional intelligence in a positive manne