Tahap Penerimaan Pelajar terhadap Peruntukan Bahasa Melayu dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan

This research aims to examine the level of knowledge, understanding, acceptance and perception among public university students towards Malay language in the Federal Constitution within the context of ethnic relations in Malaysia. This research involves 800 respondents selected from four public universities. The data is collected through survey with SPSS to analyze the function of descriptive statistic such as frequency, percentage, mean, cross tabulation and correlation coefficient to describe and explain respondents’ background and evaluate their level of knowledge, understanding, acceptance and perception towards Malay language in the Constitution. Whereas the Chi Square Test is used to identify any significant relationships between ethnicity, religion, education stream (primary and secondary) and also current residential area with the level of knowledge, understanding, acceptance and perception among the student towards Malay language in the Constitution. The findings of this research also show that the level of knowledge, understanding and acceptance of students towards Malay language in the Constitution is high in general. Also there are no clear differences in terms of knowledge, understanding, acceptance and perception level of students depending on demografi. Based on these findings, a few suggestions are addressed to solve issues pertaining to Malay language. Furthermore, a lot have been made through qualitative researches, but yet a few is done quantitatively. This research therefore has theoretically contributed in term of its quantitative nature with the production of a survey instrument.