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Learners’ perception of using the internet resources in learning writing / Nazratul Akmal Awang @ Hashim
Get PDFThis research investigated the potential role of ESL websites as a means to supplement in-class instruction. Thirty-two lower secondary students were introduced to three websites and instructed to use them in writing class for one week. Then, a questionnaire was distributed to investigate their perceptions on using the Internet resources to learn writing. Data collected revealed that they had positive attitude to using the teacher-selected websites in their writing class. This study attempted to answer these three research questions: “Does the use of selected websites motivate students to learn writing? ”, “Does the use of selected websites help students to write better?” and “Do students think it is appropriate to learn writing skill through selected websites?” It was found that the students were more motivated in learning writing. It can be seen that majority of the students indicated that learning writing by using selected websites was interesting, they enjoyed learning writing by using selected websites and they could learn writing more independently when they used selected websites. Besides that, the students stated that they could write better in English writing because they encountered new vocabulary from the selected websites. They also noticed the correct structure of writing and learnt there were simple sentences, compound sentences and complex sentences. Lastly, it was also indicated that the selected websites were appropriate for them in learning writing skill. Result shows that the selected websites were appropriate supplement to in-class instruction, appropriate for their skill level and were appropriately related to English writing
Knowledge, attitude and the use of ICT among ESL lecturers in UiTM Terengganu / Nazratul Akmal Awang @Hashim
No full textThis study is a survey on 50 ESL lecturers of Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Terengganu pertaining to their ICT knowledge level and attitude towards ICT incorporation in the ESL class. Their level of ICT use in the ESL class and the challenges faced in incorporating ICT in the language class was also investigated. The entire sample of 50 comprises the population. A survey questionnaire was distributed to elicit information pertaining to the research issues mentioned above. Descriptive statistics indicated that the respondents’ knowledge level of ICT use, attitude towards ICT use and level of use in the ESL class was fairly satisfactory. However, the survey showed that they do face some challenges in implementing ICT concerning lack of knowledge for higher ICT applications and non-availability of technical support certain times. Further, the existence of any significant relationship between respondents’ ICT knowledge and attitude towards ICT in the ESL class and also their attitude towards ICT and their level of ICT use in the ESL class was investigated using inferential statistics. In both relationship test, the relationship was found to be strong and positive and the Pearson V level was above 0.5. The quantitative survey findings are supported by some interviews of five of the respondents. Future researchers should extent this study to other campuses of UiTM and also other universities in Malaysia for comparison purposes. Future researchers could also see the difference between age groups pertaining to ICT implementation in the ESL class
Design and development of solar charged garden light
No full textAccess is limited to UniMAP community.Solar-charged garden light is a new technology in electrical technology nowadays. This product can help human being which the energy was generated by using the renewable clean energy which is solar energy. With the scenario of the Malaysia’s weather, the rate of receiving the solar energy from the sun is not too much, but still enough with the correct arrangement and combination of electronic devices, it still can be used. The main problem that faced related to the electrical infrastructure is for those people lived in the rural area. Obviously, the electrical supply in the rural area is limited. The application of this solar technology is focused in rural area. This solar technology is not so popular among Malaysians because the cost for setting up this technology is still so expensive. This technology is applied and focused in the rural area and for the places that has higher risk and higher in cost for wiring such as at the East-West highway in Grik district, in Perak. This product is using the solar energy that converted to the electrical energy and converted to the light energy. The combination of electronic devices surely best for the task. The electrical energy is stored to the rechargeable battery that has been charged during the day light and is being used during the night time. This product operates by itself without any supervision from human-being. By using clean renewable energy, there should be no issues regarding to the pollution issues and so on. This product also doesn’t need underground wiring to operate
A confirmatory factor analysis of a newly integrated multidimensional school engagement scale
No full textInconsistencies in measures of school engagement in the literature have called for a re-conceptualization of the school engagement construct. Although many researchers view school
engagement as a multifaceted construct, to our knowledge, none of the available instruments have integrated all the important domains that represent its multifaceted nature. This study is our first attempt to examine the psychometric properties of a newly integrated Multidimensional School Engagement Scale (MSES). Data were gathered from 2,381 secondary school students, aged 14 to 16, from 40 day schools in northern Malaysia. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analytic techniques were used to examine the instrument. Based on the available literature, we posited an a priori hypothesis that the scales could be explained by three first-order factors and one second-order factor. We used SPSS v.12 and AMOS 6.0 to analyze the data. Findings supported our hypothesis that the school engagement construct can be explained by three first-order factors and one hierarchical factor comprising cognitive engagement, behavioural engagement, and psychological engagement sub-scales. Findings also showed acceptable internal consistency reliability for the overall scale and the three specific sub-scales of adolescent school engagement
Correlates of avoidance help-seeking behaviors among Malaysian adolescents
No full textThe study examined correlates of avoidance help seeking behaviors among secondary school students in the state of Kedah, Malaysia. Particularly, the study examined the relationship between implicit beliefs about intelligence, academic goal orientations, perception of social and cognitive competence, classroom goal orientations, threat to self-worth, and avoidance help-seeking behavior in learning mathematics. Surveys were administered to 1849 secondary school students (1449 Malays and 400 non-Malays: 900 males and 949 females), aged between 13 and 17 years, who were studying mathematics. The instrument for the survey was adapted mainly from the Pattern of Adaptive Learning Scale (PALS). Descriptive statistics was used to examine patterns of avoidance help-seeking behavior. Pearson correlation was used to examine relationships among the variables. Findings indicated that students who perceived math ability as static and students who perceived peers and teachers as posing a threat to their self-worth are the least likely to ask for help. Students who learnt for mastery and who had a high perception of their math cognitive competence were least likely to avoid help seeking when needed. A stepwise regression analysis identified low task focused goals, high peer and teacher threats, low perception of cognitive competence, and a fixed belief about the nature of intelligence as the five main predictors of avoidance help-seeking behavior in learning mathematics. Discussion will center on these significant psychological factors that have implications for the teaching and learning of mathematics at the secondary school level
Design and development of shake-charged torchlight
No full textAccess is limited to UniMAP community.A prototype of Shake-Charged Torchlight has been designed and developed in this
Final Year Project. Shake-Charged Torchlight is an additional mechanism which allows to be self-charged by shaking movement. This torchlight contains a powerful magnet that is designed to slide back and forth freely in the body of the body of the torchlight and tightly wrapped coil of wire that surrounds the place where the magnet moves. When the torchlight
is shaken, the movement of the magnet back and forth in the coil of wire produces
electricity that alternates back and forth in polarity. To make it useful for the flashlight, this
electricity travels through diodes that change the electricity to always be a consistent
polarity like a battery would have. This electricity is then stored in the capacitor where it
can be used like in the rechargeable battery
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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