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The Impact of the Formation of Malaysia 16 September 1963: A Historical Highlight
Get PDFThis article discusses the impact of Malaysia's formation on September 16, 1963. The establishment of Malaysia involves Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore. Planning at the early stage includes Brunei but the State withdrew at the end of Malaysia's formation. Singapore also dropped out from the Malaysia Formation two years later in 1965. The formation of Malaysia has affected Malaysia to this day. The objective of the study is to discuss the benefits of politics, socialization and racial relations in Malaysia. Among the things discussed in this article are the benefits of the platform of socialisation and racial relations in Malaysia as well as the political aspects. Both of these were examined using historical approaches and library research. The findings show that Malaysia's establishment has made Malaysia a unique nation with racial diversity. This includes the establishment of many political parties based on their respective race or tribe, especially in Sabah and Sarawak. All Malaysians enjoy the benefits of Malaysia’s establishment for harmony and peace
A Cashless Policy and Economic Development in Nigeria
Get PDFA cashless economy is an environment in which money is spent without being physically carried from one place to another. It is meant to be an economic setting where services and goods are paid for via electronic which includes credit cards, bank transfer and Cheques, with no bill or money handed from one person to another. The cashless policy was introduced in January 2012, the robust interest which the policy has generated is surprising considering the effects on the business environment and particularly lives of ordinary Nigerians. The study showed that cashless policy reduces the movement of cash through usage of ATM, fund transfer, mobile banking. It helps financial transactions to be done without delay, it reduces money laundering. The study indicated that there is a very weak positive relationship between cash movement, joint effect of delivery of financial transactions and cashless policy (R= 0.245) and the model is not significant. However, for the relationship between internet availability, cashless policy and cash movement, the relationship between cash movement, the joint effect of internet availability and cashless policy is also weak ( R = 0.295 ). The model is also significant. The policy is faced with challenges ranging from erratic power supply, electronic fraud, lack of adequate sensitization, poor internet services, high rate of illiteracy and computerization. The benefits include but not limited to reduction in revenue leakages, it helps to reduce cash related crimes, the cost of handling cash is reduced to the barest minimu
Factors Influencing E-Procurement on the Implementation of Public Institution in Rwanda: A Case of Kigali City (2014-2016)
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to examine factors influencing e-procurement on the implementation of public institution in Rwanda a case of Kigali city (2014-2016. This study employed a descriptive research design with a sample size of 86 respondents. Questionnaires and document analysis were the main data tool. Data was presented using frequency tables, mean and standard deviation and the relationship between the variables was established using regression analysis. This study found that a well-organized e-procurement system contributes to good governance by increasing confidence, transparency, and competition and reduce the cost of doing business. The study concluded the public sector has established specific goals for the e-procurement initiatives and communicates e-procurement needs to all stakeholders. The study recommends for adaptation of the appropriate Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) necessary for successful implementation of procurement strategy more Especially procurement staff should be knowledgeable in e-procurement practices and requirements they should have the best skills and expertise on the systems
Performance Anxiety in Western Classical Music: A Malaysian Study
Get PDFAlthough performance anxiety is a common problem in life, there are only a few studies on this subject in Malaysia. This article presents the expansion to the body of literature on this important relationship between performance anxiety in Western Classical Music. Millions of people suffer and may experience from performance anxiety, which commonly called as ‘stage fright’. Worst of all, it may prevent a musician from doing what they enjoy or quit from performing which can effect the career. The knowledge affecting to symptoms and signs anxiety during adolescence among students could help if possible areas can be highlighted for the mediating and prevention on the subjects which may assist Malaysian youths in the university setting so they can control the emotions and reduce the anxiet
Discourse Representation of Consumerism in Mobile Telecommunication Television Advertisements
Get PDFTelecommunication advertisements have bifurcating relations, functioning as a buoyant part of the capitalist market, and as instruments indexing consumerism, which bridges the gap between service providers and subscribers. Previous linguistic studies on the subject have focused on speech acts, mainly locutionary and illocutionary acts, and the lexical and stylistic resources in telecommunication advertisements. This study focuses on the representations of consumerism in MTN and GLO advertisements. The study adopts a model labeled as conceptual-textual meaning in advertisements, which annexes the principles of critical stylistics, pragmatic acts, and multimodality to analyse both textual and multimodal excerpts from ten (10) MTN and GLO television advertisements. These were downloaded from youtube, where they are streamed to reach a vast majority of internet users after they had been aired on mainstream television and cable stations. The study reveals that consumerism is the most pivotal feature projected in the advertisements of MTN and GLO. Advertisements and services are principally designed to condition choice of the subscribers to expand their consumptions. Consumerism is metaphorised, using food substances and materials co-opted from the socio-cultural milieus that condition the advertisements. Conceptual-textual functions like naming and describing, enumerating and exemplifying and prioritising, and direct acts, indirect acts, conversation, emotional and psychological acts, as well as the textual resources of inference, metaphor, reference, relevance, and metapragmatic joker are used extensively to show consumerism. The study concludes every service option is aimed at expanding consumerism, while the cost of services, interest, and use of the services are the shades of consumption of telecommunication service
Work Satisfaction Level of Private School Teachers in Yogyakarta Indonesia
Get PDFThis article aims to explore the level of teacher job satisfaction based on external factors, namely organizational policy factors, availability of promotion opportunities, and direct supervisor supervision. Participants in this study were 216 Muhammadiyah high school teachers in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, consisting of 79 men and 137 women. They become participants in this research voluntarily and are determined randomly. The data collection method was carried out by the teachers filling out the survey instruments deliberately. The data that has collected, then we process it using descriptive quantitative data processing techniques using SPSS 25. The results show that 1). The level of teacher job satisfaction from the aspect of organizational policy has a dominant distribution in the very high category (79.6%), in the high category was 16.7%, in the medium category was 3.2%, while those in the low category were as much as 0.5% ; 2) The level of teacher job satisfaction regarding supervision was included in the very high category (89.8%), in the high category was 18.3%, in the medium category was 0.9%, and in the low category were as much as 0.9%; 3) The level of teacher satisfaction on aspects of promotion opportunity has a dominant distribution in the very high category (81%), in the high category was 11.1%, in the medium category was 7.4%, and in the low category were as much us 0.5%. These results indicate that the level of job satisfaction of teachers at SMA Muhammadiyah in Yogyakarta Indonesia is at a very high level of satisfaction. In the future, further research is needed regarding the level of teacher job satisfaction from various other factors, both internal and external, to obtain a more comprehensive picture
Prospective English Teachers' Perspective on the Teaching Materials of Translation as Profession Subject
Get PDFUniversally, the need for translator keeps increasing. This is due to the wider contact globally among countries. More common issue are also faced by countries in general. Therefore translation is required to transfer the meaning of how one issue is handled in one country and how is it in another. Based on these universities try to accommodate these needs by providing the subject of Translation in the curriculum. The objective of this study is to find out the prespective of prospective English teachers on the materials needed for Translation as Profession Subject.This research utilized Research and Development design implemented in 3 stages. First stage is identifying existing situation. The second stage is developing the material. The third stage validation of the product. The result of the validation shows that the book is valid with the average score is 4.30. The material was uploaded to Faculty of Languages and Arts Online System to be use din the teaching and learning process
The Effectiveness of Topic-Based Writing on EFL Learners’ Writing Skill
Get PDFBeing accepted as out of the four essential language skills in the language learning process, writing seems to be difficult for numerous EFL learners. This research is an endeavor to explore if learners can grow out of the writing difficulties with topic-based writing activity. 78 third-year students at the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Phan Thiet University in Phan Thiet City, Binh Thuan Province participated in the study. These students were in the two writing classes, one class was treated as the experimental group (EG) and the other as the control group (CG). Research findings exposed the benefits of topic-based writing activity in nurturing learners' writing motivation and enhancing their writing skill. Furthermore, this activity gave students good chances to widen their knowledge on the topic, enrich their emotion on disadvantaged people, and build a friendly learning environment outside the classroom. The necessity and usefulness of the application of topic-based writing activity was predominantly recognized among students
A Model to Improve the Quality of E-Learning in Farhangian University of Khuzestan
Get PDFThe aim of this study was to design a model to improve the quality of e-learning at Farhangian University of Khuzestan Province. For this research, the mixed research method of sequential exploratory type has been used. The statistical population of the research consists of a number of managers and officials of Farhangian University, experts, thinkers and prominent professors of this university. In the qualitative part of the research, sampling was done purposefully and in the quantitative part, the sampling method was stratified-random. The qualitative method of content analysis was used to construct the model and the quantitative descriptive-analytical method was used to test the model and the correlation type based on the structural equation model was used. The results of 15 interviews conducted, through open and axial coding (using Max QDA Pro version software), led to the extraction of 142 concept codes and 12 main categories, which are management and infrastructure, program Courses, objectives, content, educational media, social, cultural and moral factors, economic factors, human factors, interaction, teaching and learning, evaluation and homework and support infrastructure. Given that the T-value for 5 relationships related to the research hypotheses is more than 0.95, this means a good fit of the model
Assessment of China – Nigeria Trade Relations (1990-2018)
Get PDFThe study assessed China- Nigeria trade relations covering a period of 29 years from 1990 to 2018. The study adopted the ex-post facto research design and obtained data for export and import transactions from the Central Bank of Nigeria statistical bulletin. The study used T-test, charts, and tables to address the engagement of China-Nigeria trade relations. The study used Microsoft excel software package and statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 20 to analysis the data. The study found that Nigeria has not gained from trade relations with China from 1990 to 2018 and it is only China that benefited from trade relations with Nigeria from 1990 to 2018. The study recommended that the Nigerian Government should re-strategise its industrial sector to enable the country to manufacture industrial goods and manufactured consumable goods as well as medical equipment to export to China. They should try to discover what type of industrial goods that China does not well produce and should re-strategise to produce it with low labour and low capital. The Chinese Government should continue to import goods to Nigeria since they are the ones benefiting from trade relations in Nigeria from 1990 to 2018. They should also encourage the Nigerian government to produce and manufacture industrial goods so that they can face a little competitive with Nigeria in the future for improvement of their products