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L2 vocabulary acquisition: the impact of negotiated interaction
No full textInteraction between teachers and students during teaching/learning sessions and the language during these interactions form the main source of language input besides
instructional materials from textbooks and workbooks. Research has shown that appropriate input and suitable contexts for interaction among students can lead to
successful second language acquisition (SLA). This study examines the relationship between negotiated interaction and the ability to retain vocabulary items among a group
of primary school English as a Second Language (ESL) learners with similar first language (L1) backgrounds. 48 participants took part in a one-way input task which
involved traditional teaching/learning methods where the teacher used translations and pictures to teach vocabulary. 24 of the 48 participants took part in an additional two-way
interactive task in the form of an information gap task. Learners worked in pairs to describe target vocabulary items in pictures. The interactive sessions were audio/video
taped and transcribed. All the 48 participants sat for a pretest and three posttests (both immediate and delayed). The results showed that learners who negotiated for meaning in the two-way task achieved higher vocabulary test scores. The 24 students involved in the interactive task demonstrated their ability to negotiate for meaning despite their lack of proficiency in the language. As negotiated interaction has proved successful in enabling students to acquire and retain vocabulary items, such interactive tasks should be encouraged in the classroom
Psychological and spiritual effects of light and color from Iranian traditional houses on dwellers
No full textLight and color are the elements that has been playing important role in traditional architecture of Iran. Application of shadow and light with each other has been from the works that gives the mystical sense to the space, especially in religious spaces such as mosques. In view of light, as a major space component, the overall composition, with adjacent servant spaces, find a particular form of organization, which is centralized and where hierarchies define the general pattern. The order of structure, in which light comes as a containing discovering geometry, commands subsidiary openings, which imposes a disciplined regularity of spaces whilst offering greater complex layers of perception. In Iranian architecture, the study of light and color, in accordance with volumes and structure, has always been considered as an essential part of the different stages of the building and its realization. Giving the sensation of unity, this remains at the center of some conceived world‟s spirituality. Unfortunately false imitations from western architecture have given beautiful features but senseless spaces to the contemporary architecture of Iran. the proper teaching and tutoring the Islamic architecture with its principles, especially with suitable light and color applied, not only can describe a suitable feature of architecture, but also defines it in a word that revives the identity of Iranian architecture
Perbandingan corak lawatan dan kesan perbelanjaan pelancong kepada ekonomi Malaysia
No full textKajian ini bertujuan membandingkan corak perjalanan pelancong dari beberapa pasaran utama ke Malaysia selain menganalisis kesan perbelanjaan per kapita mereka kepada
ekonomi Malaysia. Untuk tujuan tersebut analisis deskriptif daripada data sekunder dan analisis Input-Output (I-O) digunakan. Tinjauan data sekunder mendapati perjalanan antara pasaran ini didorong oleh pelbagai motif antara yang utama ialah bercuti dan urusan perniagaan. Perjalanan yang berbeza membawa sedikit perbezaan dari segi perbelanjaan.
Analisis perbelanjaan antara pasaran dalam kajian ini mendapati pelancong dari Asia Barat merupakan pelancong yang tinggi perbelanjaan per kapita semasa berada di Malaysia iaitu sejumlah RM7,968.60 diikuti oleh pasaran dari Asia dan Pasifik (Australia) RM3951.70,Eropah (United Kingdom) RM3699.00 dan Amerika (Amerika Syarikat) RM2870.50. Kesan perbelanjaan ini telah berjaya mencatatkan peningkatan yang tinggi dari segi output, nilai ditambah, cukai kepada kerajaan, guna tenaga dan juga import berbanding pasaran lain iaitu Asia dan Pasifik, Eropah dan Amerika. Analisis I-O menunjukkan pasaran dari Asia Barat
mencatatkan sumbangan terhadap output paling tinggi berbanding pasaran lain iaitu sebanyak RM10,650.09, diikuti oleh pasaran Asia dan Pasifik (RM6571.41), Eropah (RM6250.76)serta Amerika (RM4873.51). Pasaran Asia Barat juga dianggarkan dapat menjana sekitar 0.59 guna tenaga, diikuti sebanyak 0.246 guna tenaga bagi pasaran Asia dan Pasifik dan masing-masing sebanyak 0.192 dan 0.140 guna tenaga oleh pasaran Eropah dan Amerika kesan daripada peningkatan output yang dihasilkan
Saving the savior: a deconstruction of the Novel Viajero by F. Sionil Jose
No full textThe study ventured to use Derridean deconstruction as a method of analyzing the novel Viajero. It aimed to identify the binary oppositions in the novel, establish the hierarchical relationship existing within each binary opposition, deconstruct the binary opposition, identify the parts of the novel showing the unstable relationship between the terms in the binary opposition, interpret the text and identify the implications of Derridean deconstruction for enhancing the critical reading skills of the learners. Deconstructing the binary oppositions in the novel Viajero by F. Sionil Jose was done primarily through content analysis. This needed a close reading of certain parts of the novel Viajero. Derridean deconstruction was then used to come up with an interpretation of the novel. Much binary opposition exists in Viajero. The interaction of the multitudinous characters and various social constructs produce hierarchical relationships. These binary oppositions privilege one term upon the other. But upon closer reading and investigation, this privileged/less privileged status reveals its inherent instability and inconsistency. Furthermore, the novel contains inherent traces that displace the hierarchical relationship existing between the terms in the binary oppositions. Finally, Derridean deconstruction can be used as a basis for analyzing literary text
Concept of Dharma in Shashi Tharoor’s Novel show business (1991)
No full textDharma is the total cosmic responsibility, including gods, a universal justice for more inclusive, wider and profounder than any western equivalent, such as duty. What is Dharma? This is the question that Shashi Tharoor explores repeatedly in his novel; though the situations, settings and characters are sufficiently varied each time to make quests dissimilar. His preoccupations are essentially abstract. The choice that a man has to make to remain true to himself, the corrosion of values in a world that puts premium on material success, the human price of ambition in a competitive society, and the possibility of making an authentic decision in a set up where an individual is allowed very little freedom-these are the recurrent concerns running through his novel – Show Business. Shashi Tharoor shows his socio-Moral vision and mourns for the lack of Dharma in modern times. In a Post Modernistic world, where all moral values are gone with the wind, there are very few committed artists with the philosophic vision, who can wage a strong war against the advent of basic human values. Tharoor considers his art as a medium through which he tries to resurrect the lost dignity of the human being. Art therefore seems to turn into a didactic weapon by which he reinstates the lost glory of the world
Language learning strategies and self-efficacy belief in Arabic Language learning: a malaysian context
No full textTeaching and learning is a process that requires active student involvement in the acquisition of knowledge and skills. Students should be assisted in setting individual learning goals. They should also be given the exposure to and guidance in effective learning strategies in order to build a high level of confidence in the learning process. This confidence-building method is especially important for low-performing students and helps them to achieve their specific goals. This paper examines the relationship between language-learning strategies and the self-efficacy belief in Arabic language learning. The objectives of this study are (1) to identify the self-efficacy belief and language learning strategies, (2) to note the effects of self-efficacy on language learning strategies, (3) and to examine the relationship between language learning strategies and students’ self-efficacy. The study uses a questionnaire as the information-gathering instrument, and the participants comprised university students in Peninsular Malaysia, who are studying the Arabic language. A total of 436 students were selected for this study from six universities, namely, Universiti Darul Iman, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, University of Malaya, International Islamic University Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and Universiti Putra Malaysia. The results indicate that language learning strategies have a strong correlation to self-efficacy beliefs
Hubungan kejiranan dalam membentuk kesejahteraan hidup masyarakat ‘kampung bandar’: kes Kampung Berjaya dan Kampung Mempelam, Alor Setar, Malaysia (The influence of neighbourliness in shaping the social wellbeing of urban villages : evidence from Kampung Berjaya and Kampung Mempelam, Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia)
No full textHubungan kejiranan adalah penting dalam melahirkan masyarakat sejahtera. Ia juga boleh dianggap sebagai
penentu kesejahteraan hidup bagi sesuatu masyarakat, melaluinya juga kerjasama dan perpaduan
masyarakat dapat dibentuk. Di dalam kajian ini penyelidik telah memilih penduduk di Kampung Berjaya
dan Kampung Mempelam, Alor Setar, Kedah iaitu kampung yang wujud dalam bandar sebagai responden.
Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk mengkaji persepsi penduduk terhadap tahap kesejahteraan hidup mereka
dalam aspek hubungan kekeluargaan dan kejiranan dan seterusnya menganalisis faktor penentu tahap
kesejahteraan hidup penduduk sebagai penghuni di “urban village” ini. Seramai 132 orang ketua isi rumah
telah ditemuselidik dan jumlah ini mewakili 30% jumlah ketua isi rumah yang terdapat di Kampung
Berjaya dan Kampung Mempelam. Hasil kajian telah menunjukkan bahawa hubungan kekeluargaan sahaja
masih belum cukup untuk menjamin kesejahteraan, manakala hubungan kejiranan yang baik telah dianggap
sebagai penentu kesejahteraan hidup penduduk. Namun, gabungan kedua-dua hubungan ini lebih memberi
jaminan kesejahteraan hidup masyarakat “urban village”
Amalan penggunaan bahan bantu mengajar dalam kalangan guru cemerlang Pendidikan Islam Sekolah Menengah di Malaysia
No full textArtikel ini bertujuan membincangkan amalan penggunaan bahan bantu mengajar (BBM) Guru Cemerlang pendidikan Islam (GCPI) melalui satu kajian kes.kajian ini dilaksanakan dilapan buah sekolah menengah diseluruh Malaysia yang melibatkan temubual bersama GCPI, rakan guru pelajar dan pengetua atau Penolong Kanan sekolah. Hasil Temu bual ini kemudian disusun tadbir dengan program N'Vivo versi 7.0 untuk menghasilkan tema dan jadual matriks berkaitan dengan amalan penggunaan BBM GCPI di sekolah.Hasil dapatan kajian menunjukkan terdapat 16 jenis BBM yang digunakan oleh GCPI dalam P&P mereka.Ia diklasifikasikan kepada BBM pola dan bukan pola. Terdapat enam jenis BBM yang membentuk pola amalan penggunaanya dikalangan GCPI yang utama iaitu buku teks, komputer dan LCD. BBM yang membentuk pola yang sampingan pulaialah kertas edaran dan modul, kertas mahjong , buku rujukan dan gambar. manakala BBM yang tidak membentuk pola ialah carta, akhbar dan keratan, movie dan video, buku latihan, OHP dan transparensi, papan hitam dan putih, bahan maujud radio kaset dan fail audio folio dan kertas manila kad
Application of hybrid polymer as two dimensional grating and it’s lasing characteristic
No full textA two dimensional grating has been fabricated from hybrid polymer incorporated with organic dye-laser. The precursor hybrid polymers were synthesized from TMSPMA by sol-gel method. The precursor was mixed with photo-initiator to make sensitive with UV light. The photosensitive film was irradiated by laser interference of THG Nd-YAG laser (λ = 355 nm) yield 2D grating with hexagonal structure. The characteristic of lasing was investigated using strip-line excitation light of SHG Nd-YAG laser (λ = 532 nm). The lasing wavelengths are observed at 606 and 621 nm for grating period of 400 and 410 nm, respectively. The spectral width (FWHM) of lasing is about 3 nm at pumping power 14.88 mJ/pulse cm2
Composition and sources of sterols in Pulau Tinggi, Johor, Malaysia
No full textThis study explores the role of sterols as lipid biomarkers to indicate their input which originates from various sources in the marine environment. Sterols and their ratios were investigated in sediments taken from sixteen sampling stations at Pulau Tinggi, Johor in order to assess the sources of organic matter. The compounds extracted from the sediments were quantified using a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The distributions of sterols indicated that organic matter at all sampling stations originated from a mixture of marine source and terrestrial origins at different proportions. A total of eleven sterols were quantified, with the major compounds being phytosterols (44% of total sterols), cholesterol (11%), brassicasterol (11%) and fecal sterols (12%)