Sound pattern is a description of speech sound which including vowels p attern, consonants pattern, tone pattern etc. Studies on sound pattern of Mandarin was first conducted on Mandarin Dialect and it has extended to the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database were u sed to retrieve articles related to sound pattern in SLA. 81 articles published from year 2001 2021 were collected and analyzed. Descriptive analysis on research methodology, selection of respondents, topics covered in the study of SLA sound pattern were c arried out in this study. Findings of this study show that three research methodology were utilized in the study of SLA sound pattern which are experimental phonetics, perceptual perception and mixed method. Majority of respondents were SLA learners from A sia, it is followed by Europe, Africa, America, and Oceania. Result of this study shows studies on vowels pattern was the major scope of sample s.....

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The article Makeup by Yasunari Kawabata provides a slender insight into the horrible experience that people overlook the smile of a girl with makeup and thus peeks into the unknown secrets of human development. Makeup is a kind of mirroring catering for women, reflecting their own life values through the visual, linguistic and symbolic standards of men. In ancient times , women had a high and sacred status and were worshipped by men for their reproductive organs. Men turned to language and writing to create a world of history in an attempt to conceal the sublime nature of women, while women were gradually sculpted as wea k, subservient and beautiful in men's eyes. In the symbolic world, men have unconsciously given women the power of beauty, which is the legacy of men's subversion of matriarchal society, but also the source of women's subversion of patriarchal power. Ther efore, make up is the attachment and sorrow for beauty in men' s mirror image, but because of this, wom.....

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Subtitle translation is a little bit different from general translation. Technically, subtitle translation has a lot of limitations, for example, space limits and time constraints. In addition, the differences between the source language and the target language become other obstacles. To solve these obstacles, the translator could use the help of translation strategies. The purpose of this research is to analyze the translation problems existing in a Chinese movie and analyze the result of translation strategies used in its subtitle. To analyze the subtitle in “Ne Zha” (2019), the writer used Gottlieb’s ten translation strategies with the qualitative method. The results show that 28 lines in the subtitles do not match the dialogues and the contexts of the movie. From those 28 lines, paraphrasing is the most frequently used. The reason why paraphrasing is the highest is that there are different grammatical structures between the source language and the target language. Therefore, .....

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Pan Yutong and Shang Wanyun are the Mahua writers who concern about women’s issue. They have a lot of similar experiences, but they are sexually different. Will this obvious distinction affected the way they describe women characters? Feminist theory are still argued on this issue. Although gender issue has always been the subject of feminists, but it is a product of patriarchy. Pan Yutong and Shang Wanyun who live in the patriarchy society may been affected by the patriarchy ideology. Therefore, this study will compare the method they describe women's body, try to find out the similarity or differences between male and female writer. Finally, this study will also try to respond on the argument regarding this issue...

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Intelligence begins with learning to read. If one can recognize Chinese characters at an early age, he/she will be able to read at an e a rly age, and the door of wisdom will open earlier. KSSR states that the golden age of recognizing Chinese characters is at Year 1 and 2. The focus of teaching and learning at this stage is recognizing Chinese characters. However, many pupils lost the char a cters they have learned after a certain period of time. Inability to master a sufficient number of Chinese characters h as slowed down students' entry into the reading stage and hindered them from enjoying reading books. This article discusses the problems faced in teaching and learning Chinese characters in Chinese primary schools and suggests corresponding countermeasures , hoping to provide little contribution in teaching and learning Chinese characters in Malaysia...

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Sinophone Malaysian literature has always been seen as one of the most significant cultural creations of the Malaysian community. As such, it is necessarily subordinate to Chinese history it is within Chinese history. On the other hand, Mahu a realism, with its mission to “reflect has made Chinese history its unique desire, and has allowed Chinese history to reside within it. The realism has always claimed to be the mainstream of Malaysian literature and considered itself to be absol utely representative, but its actual production status is doubtful. This paper attempts to explore such a delicate situation thr ough a general case of realism, T uó ling.  ..

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Sim Mow Yu’s spent 52 years writing a diary to intervene in life, and to criticize and interpret it. With the framework of thought in life ””, he creatively transformed cultural thoughts and finally reconstructed the symbol of the Malaysian Chinese spirit. This mode of interpretation and recon struction is the same as the research method of the diary researcher Ho Khai Leong. It is not only a paradigm of inheritance from Malaysian Chinese, but also a thought process that originates from life and then gives back to life...

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Zhang Ailing is a very distinctive femal e writer in the modern and cont emporar y Chinese literary world. Through the survival track of the characters in her works, she shows us a deformed social style after the combination of W estern modern civilization and Eastern declining culture, with unique cultural connotation. The acade mic cir cle began to study Eileen Zhang s articles in the 1940s. Th is article uses time as the main line and sorted out the research overview of Eileen Zhang in different historical backgrounds and cultural atmospheres in Ch ina and the West. Through the combing of Eileen Zhang's research results, we can see that under a specific historical background, d ifferent academic research atmospheres and literary research concepts in China and the West have different perspectives and t houghts on the research of Ei leen Chang s articles...

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The study was aimed to understand the development pathways of Malaysia youth basketball players and examine the existence of relative age effect (RAE) in MSSM basketball tournament. Participants selected from the groups of top 3 successful performed (n=72) and bottom 3 unsuccessful performed (n=72) U18 boy and girl teams from the MSSM basketball tournaments and data collected through modified Participation History Questionnaire (PHQ). The milestones achieved, and types of activities engaged by all athletes were collected. ONE-WAY ANOVA used to analyze the milestone achieved, compared them within the successful and unsuccessful performed group. Factorial ANOVA were used to analyze type of activities involved according to their age and compared within the successful and unsuccessful performed group. Non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test used to analyze their involvement in other sports. No significant different for milestones achieved for both groups. All successful groups accumu.....

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Amali kimia hijau merupakan pendekatan yang mengurangkan kesan ke atas alam sekitar mealui penggunaan bahan yang kurang mencemarkan alam serta kesan kepada kesihatan manusia melalui penggunaan bahan yang lebih selamat. Kajian ini melibatkan pembinaan amali kimia hijau bagi sub tajuk asid dan alkali dan kesan amali hijau terhadap pencapaian, kesedaran dan amalan kelestarian alam pelajar sekolah menengah dengan membandingkannya dengan amali kimia tradisional. Kajian dilaksanakan menggunakan reka bentuk kuasi eksperimen melibatkan 34 orang pelajar tingkatan empat yang mengambil mata pelajaran Kimia KSSM. Pelajar dibahagikan kepada dua kumpulan rawatan dan kawalan. Pelajar kumpulan rawatan mengikuti pembelajaran amali kimia asid dan alkali menggunakan amali kimia hijau manakala kumpulan kawalan menggunakan amali kimia yang dibekalkan oleh Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia (KPM). Data ujian pra dan pasca dianalisis menggunakan ujian-t bagi melihat kesan amali kimia hijau ke atas pe.....

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