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Malay language has many ways in describing various things dan events. Idiom is one of the very fine ways to say something which make the Malay language unique and beautiful. Different from the common words used in daily communication, the word in idiomatic phares are very much related to the way of thinking among the Malay people. This dissertation distinguish between idioms in Malay and compound words by using criteria namely non-infusibility, non-reversibility as a test in determining idioms and compound words. This dissertation also explains the distinction between compound words with idioms...

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This study is intended to discover a methodology to lower the readability index of certain Malay literature texts, such as short stories and novels, used in Malaysian schools. A study was made on the methodology used to lower the readability index of Daniel Defoe’s . Oxford University Press lowered the readability index for , for three groups of readers, namely the university readers, and those of grades three and four. The methodology was adapted and used to lower the readability index of Usman Awang’s . This is a short story written by a well-known Malaysia’s literary figure, and his works are read by pupils in the secondary schools. The readability index of the short story was determined using Khadijah Rohani’s formula (1982). Subsequently, the readability index for the short story was lowered so that pupils from standard five in primary school can read it. It is hoped that, the methodology used in this study will be able to make a contribution in similar exercises to lower .....

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This is a research project aimed at building materials on the use of Malay affixes in teaching Malay. Affixes is an important part of Malay grammar. This project is divided into three parts: affixation to derive nouns, verbs and adjectives. Chapter 1 discusses how grammar is taught in shools to enable students to write and speak Malay grammatically. Chapter 2 provides a research framework. This chapter discusses the concept of grammar, i.e. which describes the constrction and structure of the words, and secondly which involves the formation sentences, and other related research works. Chapter 3 describe the research methodology used. The methodology used is that of a library reseacrh. Chapter 4, describes the product of the project. Series of graded excercises were developed involving the use of Malay affixes in developing written skills in using Malay. Chapter 5, contains a conclusion and suggestion on the research project...

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The research aimes to study the attitude of form five students towards Malay Literature and its relationship with achievement, it is also to investigate if there is any difference in attitude and level achievement according to sex, location and the socio-economic status of students. The sample comprises 160 students from three secondary schools at District of Raub Pahang. The two factors of attitude towards Malay Literature were used to measure the attitude towards Malay Literature subjects and Malay Literature teachers. Five general hyphotheses and fifteen small null hypotheses were made. This study used questionnaires which consist of 37 items on the attitude towards Malay Literature with the five point Likert Scale. The students achievements in Malay Literature subject were obtained from the marks scored in the 2003 final examination. The data were analyzed using the Pearson Coefficient Correlation method was u to measure the relationship between the attitude towards literature and .....

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The classical landscape poetry has its own function of aesthetics of life according to the traditional Chinese literary criticism. This thesis explores the structure of aesthetics of life of the contemporary classical landscape poetry created by the Nam Chou Poetry Anthology in Malaysia from 1973 to 1990. To expose the nature of the structure, this thesis also indicates it from the perspective of aesthetics of life of Tang's landscape poetry. Throughout the study, the implication of the Nam Chou Poetry's landscape poetry can be divided thematically into three phases: the Autumn Period (1973), the Mount and Water Period (1974-1980), and the Mount Period (1981-1990). However, the nature of the whole landscape poetries can be aesthetically summarized as quite similar to the leisure poetry of the great landscape poet in the Tang, Bai Juyi (772-846), which is smooth and graceful in feeling and its beauty, plain and fascinating. In a nutshell, for the Nam Chou Poetry's poets, landscape poetr.....

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