This study aims to investigate the use of Community of Inquiry (CoI) based blended learning approach to enhance students_ Vocabulary Test Scores (VTS) and Vocabulary Learning Motivation (VLM) in Chinese secondary vocational EFL classroom. It utilized an explanatory sequential mixed methods approach and a quasi-experimental research design. A series of instruments including a Diagnostic Test, a researcher-developed Vocabulary pre-test and post-test, CoI and VLM questionnaires were employed to gather quantitative data while a semi-structured interview to gather qualitative data. A total of 86 first-year students at a Technician College with two campuses in Chongqing, China were allocated to an experimental group (n = 44) and a control group (n = 42) using a purposive sampling method. Results from the quantitative findings revealed that 1) there is a significant difference between the experimental and control groups after the CoI-based blended learning intervention in terms of students_ V.....

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Approaches inspired by natural processes have been developed due to their effectiveness in addressing different challenges encountered by Swarm algorithms, such as struggling with local optima, and evolutionary algorithms, such as encountering slow convergence. By integrating evolutionary and swarm intelligence approaches, which is nature-inspired approach, a solution can be achieved that combines the exploration capacity of swarms with the exploitation ability of evolutionary algorithms. This has the potential to enhance overall optimization performance. Therefore, proposing techniques such as bald eagle search (BES), a nature-inspired approach that tackles optimization problems by mimicking the hunting behavior of bald eagles, appears to be beneficial. To our knowledge, there are presently no algorithm that mimic the hunting behavior of bald eagles, which is characterized by group hunting. The BES algorithm involves three stages: selection space, search, and swoop. The evaluation of .....

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Kajian ini diusahakan untuk mengkaji tentang kesantunan berbahasa. Kajian ini dibuat dengan  memfokuskan novel-novel kompenan sastera (Komsas) yang diajar di sekolah-sekolah menengah. Novel  yang dipilih adalah novel "Aku Anak Timur", "Kapten Hassan", "Merdeka! Merdeka!", "Perlumbaan  Kedua" don "Julia". Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah perpustakaan dengan berdasarkan lima strategi  iaitu Strategi Maaf, Strategi Terima Kasih. Strategi Panggilan don Strategi Budaya. Kajian ini  bertujuan mengkaji bentuk kesantunan berbahasa dalam lima novel Komsas. Selain itu, untuk mengenal  pasti persamaan don perbezaan ciri-ciri kesantunan berbahasa dalam novel kajian. Kajian juga  bertujuan untuk  membuktikan  bahawa  nilai-nilai kesantunan Islam berperanan dalam pembentukan  sahsiah pelajar di sekolah.  ..

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Kajian ini bermatlamat untuk membandingkan analisis regresi logistik dan pohon pengelasan dalam menentukan faktor bayi berat lahir rendah (BBLR) pada 7260 bayi yang ditempatkan di pusat rawatan rapi neonatal seperti yang telah didaftarkan dalam Malaysian National Neonatal Registry pada tahun 2006. Sampel yang dipilih adalah berdasarkan tiga etnik utama iaitu Melayu, Cina dan India. Kaedah analisis yang digunakan ialah dengan membandingkan keputusan yang diperoleh daripada kedua-dua kaedah yang digunakan iaitu analisis regresi logistik dan analisis pohon pengelasan. Analisis menunjukkan kedua-dua kaedah menghasilkan keputusan yang hampir sama di mana minggu gestasi adalah faktor utama kepada BBLR. Pohon pengelasan menunjukkan struktur biologi yang lebih baik berbanding regresi logistik. Walaubagaimanapun, hasil dari analisis regresi logistik mempunyai kepekaan yang lebih tinggi. Secara kesimpulannya, kedua-dua kaedah ini mempunyai kelebihannya tersendiri. Gabungan kedua-dua kaedah mungk.....

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Attitudes and motivation are two important elements in determining the achievement of students in their learning. These two aspects interact and influence each other and lacking either one of these aspects will contribute to poor achievement or performance of the students in their study. This study is aimed to find out the correlation between the students' attitudes and motivation with their achievement towards learning English as a second language. Along the line, this study also seeks to explore the students' level of attitudes and motivation as well as their learning preferences in the classroom. The study was conducted in twelve weeks and data are gathered by using a questionnaire which is given to 138 students from MARA Vocational Institute, Lumut. Each item in this questionnaire is carefully designed in order to enable the students to provide clear and precise information regarding their attitudes and motivation towards learning of English as a second language. Generally, it was .....

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This is a study to determine the different language skills employed by Form Three semi-urban school students in terms of scanning, skimming, locating information, predicting, understanding, sequencing, inferencing, and all the other related reading skills as listed in the Form Three Curriculum Specifications. The findings will provide an insight into the effectiveness of using either Bahasa Malaysia or English language by the Form Three students in learning and using their skills in answering the Science examination paper in their PMR examination. This insight study will also enable educationists and teachers to tailor special programmes and teaching strategies to help remedy students' weaknesses in improving the teaching and learning process of the Science subject and also to reaffirm the effectiveness of teaching the subject in the English language..

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There are two purposes of this study. The first purpose is to discover the types of attitudes fostered by the Form Four students of a secondary school in Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan towards learning English. The second purpose was to discover the existence of correlation between students' attitudes and their achievement in English. 164 Form Four students participated in this survey. A self-designed questionnaire was utilized to identify students' attitudes in learning English while their English achievement was based on their midyear examination results. The researcher personally administered the questionnaire to the respondents with the aid of Form Four English Language teachers in that school. The students' attitudes towards learning were divided into four attitudinal factors: (1) Form Four students’ overall attitudes towards learning English, (2) Form Four students' attitudes towards learning English per se, (3) Form Four students' attitudes towards their English teacher and (4).....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan keberkesanan kaedah pengajaran dan pembelajaran berasaskan modul dan web ke atas pencapaian guru-guru pelatih dalam mata pelajaran Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunikasi. Komponen kemahiran Teknologi Maklumat yang dikaji adalah bagi topik Microsoft Excel. Seramai 144 orang pelajar KPLI dari IPG Kampus Ipoh terlibat dalam kajian ini. Data diperoleh daripada hasil ujian pra dan pasca serta borang soal selidik yang diedarkan. Kedua-dua borang soal selidik adalah untuk menilai kualiti modul dan web yang digunakan. Data yang diperoleh dianalisis secara kuantitatif melibatkan penggunaan statistik deskriptif dalam bentuk min, sisihan piawai, kekerapan dan peratusan. Manakala bagi statistik inferensi menggunakan ANOVA Satu Hala. Hipotesis diuji pada aras signifikan α = .05. Hasil analisis menunjukkan secara umumnya pencapaian guru-guru pelatih KPLI yang mengikuti kaedah pengajaran dan pembelajaran berasaskan modul dan web lebih baik berbanding dengan kaedah ko.....

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This study was aimed to develop and validate an instructional framework that can be used to produce effective and efficient screencast video for learning 3D modelling software. Four variations of instructional screencast video were designed and developed specifically for this study. At the beginning of this study, a series of semi-structured interviews were conducted with six undergraduate students of Sultan Idris Education University who took the MMG3083 Modelling course. These students believed that they learned better by watching instructional screencast video as opposed to static media. Most of them agreed that screencast video can help them in learning 3D modelling. Subsequently, two single-group post-test only quasi-experiments were carried out using Tobii Eye Tracker to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of different variations of instructional screencast videos. In the first quasi-experiment, screencast without caption was found statistically more efficient for research p.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk meneroka seni tembikar tradisional Terenang Pahang. Kajian ini dipilih berdasarkan faktor pengusaha tembikar tradisional Terenang di Malaysia yang semakin berkurangan. Kajian ini juga dijalankan kerana fungsi tembikar tradisional Terenang sebagai barang utiliti semakin kurang mendapat sambutan dalam kalangan masyarakat Malaysia hari ini. Faktor ini berlaku kerana kurangnya pendedahan mengenai keistimewaan dan keunikan tembikar tersebut kepada masyarakat umum. Oleh yang demikian, kajian terperinci dilaksanakan mengenai tembikar tradisional Terenang Pahang. Kajian ini menyentuh aspek sejarah tembikar tersebut secara umum, cara tembikar tersebut dihasilkan, jenis reka bentuk dan perubahan yang berlaku pada tembikar tersebut. Data dikumpul menggunakan kaedah pengkajian sejarah (Historiography) yang disempurnakan melalui kaedah temubual melibatkan beberapa partisipan utama iaitu Noriah Bt Mohd Ali selaku Adiguru Tembikar Tembeling, Mohammad Bin Zakaria s.....

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