Kajian   ini   dilakukan   melalui   kaedah   kajian   kes   berbentuk   analisis   dan   kajian kepustakaan. Kajian ini melibatkan sampel yang terdiri daripada 28 orang responden Tingkatan 4  Pengajian Kejuruteraan Elektrik 2 di Sekolah Menengah Teknik Dungun, KM 5, Jalan Paka, 23000  Dungun, Terengganu. Kajian kes difokuskan terhadap aspek sebutan bahasa Melayu baku responden melalui sesi pembentangan  tugasan yang diberikan oleh pengkaji. Pembentangan responden dirakam dan dianalisis mengikut bunyi  sebutan berdasarkan Daftar Umum Sebutan Baku Bahasa Melayu terbitan Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1991.  Kajian Kepustakaan pula dilakukan untuk mencari fakta-fakta yang releven untuk menyokong dapatan  dan kajian kes. Hasil kajian membuktikan terdapat hubungan yang signifikin antara kelemahan sebutan responden yang  disebabkan oleh pengaruh dialek tempatan, kelemahan sebutan yang disebabkan proses peleburan  terhadap setengah-setengah perkataan dan kel.....

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This study investigated the relevance of the usage of workbooks and their significance in preparing students for the SPM examination in teaching the novel part of the literature component in the Form Five English language syllabus. The teaching of a novel is a compulsory part of the English language paper in the SPM examination. Teachers and students throughout the country have turned to the usage of supplementary workbooks. Publishers have come out with numerous workbooks to help teachers and students prepare for the literature component in their exam. It is the purpose of this study to find out if these books comply with the English language curriculum specifications lined out by the Education Ministry of Malaysia . A total number of 20 books were analysed using Bloom’s taxonomy of question levels. . The study revealed that most of these books did comply with the curriculum specifications..

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This study seeks to investigate the extent to which the recently revised Form Four History Syllabus has incorporated the Higher Order Thinking Skills. The study also investigates the views of Curriculum and Education department officials as regards to the incorporation of the skills. The teachers’ interpretation of these Higher Order Thinking Skills and the difficulty faced in infusing these skills in the classroom are also presented. Document analysis of the History Syllabus and Specifications for the purpose of identifying the Higher Order Skills was undertaken. These data were also supported with data collected through interviews with six teachers and three Education officials from the History department of the Curriculum Development Centre and State Education Department. The data were again reinforced through the administering of a questionnaire to 163 teachers throughout a particular district in Perak. The findings of the research suggest that the Higher Order Thinking skills ar.....

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Literature, which once played a prominent role in language studies was excluded from the English subject syllabus when English is established as the second language. Recently, due to the decline in English among students, its inclusion was necessary and it was then implemented as a component in the English subject in March 2000. The intent of this study was to gain a better understanding of the nature of the relationship between the use of pictures and the learning of poems, which is a genre in literature. A quasi experimental research was adopted in the investigation . The subjects involved were fifty eight form one students. They were students of SMJK Perempuan China. Pulau Pinang. Pictures were used as an aid and students also illustrated pictures on their own when asked to read the poems. Data analysis involved the use of Ancova and analysis in percentage on the perception questions based on the Likert Scale. The results of the study indicated that the Experimental Group performed .....

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The aim of this study was to find out the teachers’ and students’ views on the use of humour in the ESL classroom. The study was conducted in 14 Secondary schools (7 urban, 7 rural) in the Larut, Matang and Selama District. 130 English teachers and 420 Form 4 students participated in this study. Two sets of survey questionnaires were used to collect data. The first set was given to the teachers and the other to the students. Nonetheless, items used for both the questionnaire were similar. Then the collected data was analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Windows 11.5 Version. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage and crosstabs were used to describe the data. The findings showed 95% of the English teachers and 97.6% of responded positively to the use of humour in the ESL classroom. Teachers and students agreed to15 out of 16 reasons for using humour whereby the percentage of agreement was above 80%. The reasons include the use of humour to p.....

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This case study aimed at exploring the use of blog in helping ESL student to express ideas. The study investigated the participants’ responses, perceptions and feelings while and after engaging in blogging, and providing and receiving comments. A class of 30 ESL students participated in this study. Topics were given every week for eight consecutive weeks. Participants were free to log on to the blogs. Data from the blog content and self assessment rubrics were collected concurrently with the study. At the end of the study, participants answered questionnaire. Semi-structure interviews were conducted. Data were coded with initial coding, followed by focused coding. Data from the four sources were triangulated. Three major themes emerged from the study. Firstly, based on the number of entries, it is found that blogging motivated the majority of the participants to voice out their opinions. Secondly, comments in blogging serve important roles to the participants. Thirdly, participants l.....

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The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand and describe the existing teaching and learning activities of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) conducted in the selected Biology classrooms in Peninsular Malaysia. The study was guided by three research questions, focusing in the nature of the teaching and learning activities, the cognitive levels reflected by the activities through the lens of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (RBT), and the language skills that could be learned through the activities in Biology learning. Three experienced Biology Excellent Teachers and their students were purposively selected as respondents in this study. The data collected through classroom observations, semi-structured interviews, and document reviews were validated through member checking and triangulation. Firstly, the findings suggested that the five main nature of the CLIL activities are interactive, studentcentered, teacher-centered, ICT integrated and exam-oriented. Secondly.....

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