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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The purpose of this study was to assess and analyse the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) of novice and experienced Biology teachers. The study examined five components namely, content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, knowledge of student’s, teacher’s beliefs in the nature of Biology and teaching of Biology. It also aimed to investigate the integration of these components in producing an effective teaching of Biology. Respondents of the study comprised four teachers involving two novice teachers (1-3 years teaching experience) and two experienced teachers (more than 5 years of teaching experience) who were teaching Biology at secondary schools in the district of Rompin, Pahang. This study employed the case study design. The data of this study were analysed thematically with information gathered through semi-structured interview, non-involvement of distant observation and document analysis. This study found that experienced teachers are able to balance PCK components. Experienced.....

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As a developing country strategically located in Southeast Asia, Malaysia is faced with the threat of territorial and maritime disputes from neighboring countries, especially after the declaration of New Map in 1979. According to this dispute, research was about to see the importance of bilateral negotiation mechanism than other mechanisms in solving the two case studies of territorial disputes based on selected cases of the Celebes Sea and Limbang border. There are three main objectives of this study. First, analyzed territorial dispute highlights which Malaysia had been involve as well as the chosen mechanism. Second, study selected mechanisms and the factors that constraint the conflict through a case study in the Sulawesi Sea dispute and in Limbang border and third to analyze the extent of effective bilateral negotiation mechanisms to be used in the case study of the Celebes Sea and Limbang border. Qualitative method had been used in data collection and applies theory of liberalism.....

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‘Teachers Questioning In The Teaching of Reading Comprehension’ was a study aimed at categorising the types of questions according to the cognitive levels in Barrett’s Taxonomy of reading comprehension; determining the frequencies of lower-order questions versus higher-order questions; identifying the questioning strategies employed by the teachers; and investigating teachers’ views on questioning. Using the Multiple Case Single Site Design, the study was conducted at one of the schools in Selayang with three English Language teachers of Form Four who were selected using the purposive sampling method. Observations were carried throughout five weeks followed by individual in-depth interviews. Two instruments were developed to collect data; a self-developed observational checklist (containing all the five thinking levels in Barrett’s Taxonomy for reading comprehension) and an interview protocol. Frequency counts were made on the data obtained from the observational checklists w.....

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The objective of this research is to determine teacher’s understanding of the concept and teaching strategies of the Malay Literature Component in the Malay Languge subject. It was carried out in eleven secondary school in Larut, Matang and Selama district. The research includes hundred of teachers teaching the Malay Language subject. Out of the 100 respondents, 50 were lower secondary teachers and 50 were upper secondary teachers. The number of respondents according to gender are 21 male teachers and 79 female teachers. A survey was conducted to obtain data on teachers’ understanding of the concept and teaching strategies of the Malay Literature Component in the Malay Language subject. Statistics analysis , descriptive, mean and standard division were utilized to examine the level of understanding of the concept and teaching strategies. In addition, inferential statistic analysis of “ t test and Pearson Correlation” used to analyze the relationship between dependent variables .....

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This research is a great research effort on the biography and written work by J.M Aziz bin Abdul Rahman, whose real name is Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman. He was active and prominent in writing and producing poems around 1950s and 1990s. This research is implemented by writing and highlighting the background of J.M Aziz and the frequency of his poems being published in the media in chronological order. The research analysis is focused mainly on the human values instilled in his poems obtained from a book titled “Derita Seorang Seniman” which was compiled by Wahba. Among the great human values obtained from his poems are based on the theme of patience, hard work, gratefulness, piousness, goodness, lovingness and responsibility. All those human values are integrated and combined with the concept of integrated thinking system which has four thinking module known as genuine thinking, physical thinking, logical thinking and lateral thinking. The reason why the elaborations on human values.....

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The purpose of this research is to identify the relation between factors and Malays language performance among the form four students. The data were collected through students attitude toward Malays language survey and a special Malays language test that was given to the students. Frequent distribution, mean interpretation score and t-test were used to identify the influences level of the factors over the Malays language performance. Finally the result of the research shows that factors like race and student attitude significantly relate to the Malays language performance among form four students...

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This is a research in the field of Malay traditional poem called Puisi Dikir Laba . The poem is categorized into the dikir or zikir genre which is one of the major general in the Malay traditional poem ( Harun Mat Piah : 1989). This research is done based on the Literature Sociological Theory. To attain sources of information , the researcher made his way to the popular “dikir” location since 1920s until today. The researcher attained his first hand resources from observations and interviews with old and young Dikir Laba experts who are at present active in the field as it was popularized since 1930s. The researcher also take into consideration available resources. The aim of this research is to see the crucial aspect that acknowledge this traditional poem as a unique genre in the Malay community in Kelantan. The aim of the research and discussion are mainly about the concept, the foundation of the poem, the history of its expansion and how it spread about in certain status. The re.....

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The vast contribution of Bahasa Melayu today has achieved the status of being multi purpose suitable for all situations and can adapt to changes according to occasions and requirements. We have to acknowledge the fact that Bahasa Melayu is the language of knowledge. Bahasa Melayu possesses the various forms which stresses the importance of scientific method. Morphology is one of the important studies in Bahasa Melayu. Hence, this study discusses the authenticity of the language corpus as the manifestation of the scientific method in describing the grammar of Bahasa Melayu. This study will analyze the data from the computerized corpus of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka to observe and describe the actual usage of the negative ‘bukan’ and ‘tidak’ among today’s society. Generally, the grammarians of Bahasa Melayu placed the negative ‘bukan’ to negate the nominal phase and the prepositional phrase where as the negative ‘tidak’ is being used to negate the verbal phrase and adjecti.....

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This research entitled ‘Types of Greeting for Language Teaching’ is focused on pronouns and also addressitivity in the Malay Language. Even though, both of them have different functions, the pronouns can sometimes take the place of addressitivity. It happens due to the usage or pronouns is closely related to addressitivity, especially in the Malay Language. Besides that, this research has been carried out thoroughly by using the library and observation methods. Questions are set up carefully to produce accurate results. The main resources for this research are a book entitled ‘Sejarah Melayu’, written by W.G. Shellabear (1896), 10th Edition (1984), speech texts and other materials. The result shows that pronouns and addressitivity have different functions and usage. In an informal situation, the usage or functions of pronouns and addressitivity is not as strict as its usage ini formal situation. Other than that, this research also shows that there are a few differences in the u.....

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