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The narrative structure and ideational meaning of Malay short stories
No full textShort stories are structured in a way to engage readers to the stories being told. This paper discusses the compatibility between Narrative Structure of Malay Short Stories and Labov and Waletzky’s (1967) Narrative Structure of Casual Conversation. The narrative analysis was conducted on the literary works of a prominent Malaysian Female Writer, Zurinah Hassan entitled “Catatan di Meja Makan” (Notes at the Dining Table), “Anita” and “Perjalanan Sendiri” (Own Journey). The findings suggest that the narrative structure of Malay Short Stories has the same stages as outlined by Labov and Waletzky’s, and the stages are Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution and Coda. Following that, the Orientation stage was further analysed using Transitivity analysis as introduced by Halliday’s SFL (1994). The analysis shows that the most frequent process found in the Malay short stories is Action Process with 63 occurrences and followed by Mental Process with 24 occurrences. These two process types connote the active actions of the characters of the short stories either physically or mentally. In relation to the process types, participant types of Action process which are Actor and Goal have the highest occurrences, 46 and 44 respectively, whilst participant types of Mental process, Senser and Phenomenon with 20 and 17 occurrences. The findings suggest that the main aim of Orientation stage in Malay short stories is to foreground the characters, as doers and sensers, and and highlight their physical and mental activities
Bridging the gap between government-industry-university collaboration through CEO@Faculty programme
No full textThe government-university-industry relation is a pertinent aspect in developing talents that fulfil the workplace needs. Lack of industry experience among academics may, to certain extent, affect the quality of university graduates. In responding to this issue, the CEO@Faculty programme was initiated by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia as part of an initiative to provide opportunities for young lecturers. The six-month industrial attachment programme at multi-national corporations and government-linked companies is hoped to expose the real experience in the industry to the selected young academicians. The impetus of the study is to evaluate the programme's effectiveness and its contributions to its stakeholders (government. university. industry). The data is derived from questionnaires involving 52 Malaysian university lecturers who participated in the programme. The key aspect that was examined includes the type of collaborations that can be established between the CEO@Faculty fellow and the company. The results of the study reveal that the CEO@Faculty programme has a significant impact on strengthening university-industry cooperation. namely knowledge transfer. research grant contribution. graduate industrial training placement and research collaborations. Besides. this study has also successfully increased the level of leadership competence among the CEO@Faculty fellows who participated in the programme. Thus, the programme's success has directly impacted the personality and leadership development among the lecturers, which is hoped to improve the quality of graduates to meet the needs of the industry
