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Students satisfaction in learning Mandarin in higher education institute in Perlis
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)This research aims to investigate satisfaction of students in learning Chinese Mandarin by the International Business students in higher education institute in Perlis, Malaysia which is focus on course contents, instructor ... -
Utilizing Facebook to teach Thai EFL students’ writing skills: a case study
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)The use of social networking sites such as Facebook has earned a number of pedagogical benefits in today’s EFL classrooms. This study focuses on employing Facebook as a tool in teaching English writing to Thai EFL learners ... -
Peer assessment: exploring tertiary student's view
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)In past decades, peer-assessment has been promoted as a valuable approach to enhance students learning experience and has been used to develop autonomous learning environment. This paper is intended to evaluate on university ... -
The roles of formative assessment in English language classroom
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)This paper aims to explore the roles of formative assessment in the classroom which involved the tertiary level’s students at one of the technical universities. Formative assessment is crucial to enhance the students’ ... -
The relationship between background knowledge of text content and affective reaction towards the text
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)Research studies carried out to study the comprehension processes of second language readers have found that background knowledge is an important factor. Research findings have also indicated that attitude, interests, and ... -
Promotional strategy in Computer Science research article
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)Research articles are known to be concise and straight to the point however, studies have shown that promotional strategies have permeated into the writings of the scientific authors. The inclination to use promotional ... -
Masculine and feminine traits in Cinderella and Ever After
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)We live in the raise of entertainment world, where motion pictures have already taken over the audiences’ hearts. Motion pictures or movies are very popular nowadays. Its popularity reaches every generation of people ... -
Approaches to language learning: Blending tradition with innovation
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)Experienced language learners have always tended to work out their own strategies to maximise their effectiveness; examples of this would include consciously incorporating newly learnt words and phrases in one’s own speaking ... -
A survey of Customs officers’ problems in using English
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)The purpose of this study was to investigate problems and needs in using English at work. The participants of the study included 20 customs officers at Sungai Kolok Customs House in Narathiwas province. The instruments for ... -
Disleksia dalam aspek ejaan bacaan Bahasa Melayu
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)Kesedaran masyarakat mengenai sindrom disleksia tidak begitu tinggi berikutan kurangnya pengetahuan mengenai sindrom ini. Sehubungan dengan itu, kajian ini dibuat bertujuan memerhati dan memahami apa kelemahan yang dimiliki ... -
Peranan teori Psikolinguistik dalam pemerkasaan pendidikan Bahasa Melayu di Malaysia
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)Makalah ini membicarakan dua bidang utama dalam disiplin linguistik, iaitu psikolinguistik dan pendidikan bahasa. Kita akan melihat bagaimana bidang psikolinguistik dapat diterapkan dalam bidang pendidikan bahasa, khususnya ... -
A usage of apology expression among the younger Japanese-natives
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)This paper aims to demonstrate that a more detailed analysis of cultural characteristics will produce a clearer picture about an apologetic act of the target language and helps to understand the nature of a different ... -
Penglipur lara Awang Batil: nilai, fungsi dan falsafah dalam penyampaian (cerita dan lagu)
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)Seni Awang Batil di negeri Perlis kini semakin dilupai dan hikayatnya mulai disaingi oleh arus pemodenan. Oleh itu, kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dengan lebih mendalam mengenai kesenian Awang Batil. Temu bual ... -
Varieties of English and Thai secondary school students’ standpoints
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)The role of English in the inter-connected world nowadays is increase significantly as the international lingua franca. Consequently, varieties of accents, lexical choices, and grammar patterns become challenging. Thailand ... -
Development of English pronunciation with phonics
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)Phonics instruction is to teach students correspondence between graphemes in written language and phonemes in spoken language and how to use these correspondences to read and spell words. Thai students’ ability of English ... -
Zakat: keharmonian masyarakat dan kemakmuran negara
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)Zakat merupakan rukun Islam yang ketiga dan merupakan sumber penjanaan ekonomi yang bermanfaat kepada negara secara amnya dan masyarakat khususnya. Dari sudut bahasa zakat bererti keberkatan, kesucian, perkembangan dan ... -
A study of English for communication to enhance the tourism information: a case study of Klonghae Floating Market, Hat Yai, Songkla
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)The objectives of this research were to study the context of Klonghae Floating Market which relates to the potentiality to become internationally known market including studying information services to promote the market ... -
Task based language teaching: an approach to EFL classrooms in Malaysia
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)One of the many perplexing questions and challenges that await a language teacher is to know which is the correct method to use in teaching language successfully. According to Long and Doughty (2009), historians of language ... -
Translating technical metaphors from English into Malay: possibilities (and challenges)
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)Metaphors are very difficult to derrne, classify and translate as stressed by Fuertes-Olivera, P. A. et aI. (1998) above. Therefore, it is not surprising for the translation of technical metaphors to have its own set of ... -
Learning process in using English for communication in tourism attraction areas: a case study in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, Thailand
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisCentre of International Languages, 2014-02)The purpose of this study was to investigate people’s learning process of using English for communication in attractive areas in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province; Muang , Khanom and Sichol District. The samples were 137 people ...