This panel discussion was one of the sessions in International Multidisciplinary Prospective Research in Education and Social Sciences (IMPRESS21) conference that took place on 7-9 September 2021. This discussion was about community involvement in mental health research and the panel members were Professor Mohamed Hatta Shaharom, a senior medical practitioner and Professor of Psychiatry. Next panellist, Dr. Kahar Abdulla is an International Coordinator at European Alliance against Depression who is passionate in increasing mental health awareness in the community. Final panellist, Mr. Gan Chun Hong is a lecturer and clinical psychologist whose work focuses on the area of rehabilitation clinical psychology. The aim of this discussion is to illustrate the role of community in mental health management, research and in post-graduate training. This discussion hopes to highlights the needs of community engagement in mental health research for an impactful outcome...

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors impacting online gaming addiction on mental health including emotional, psychological and social well-being of adolescents from five secondary schools of Karachi, Pakistan. It was hypothesized that engagement in online gaming (referring to electronic game playing over a computer network) has impacts on the overall mental health of these adolescents. This study employs between-subject design and a survey research method in which a sample from the population of gamers is taken using purposive sampling. The sample is composed of 103 participants who play online games (average age = 14.6, SD=1.8). The researchers conducted a survey for finding out the factors impacting online gaming addiction (OGA) and Mental Health (MH). The Internet gaming Disorder Scale–Short-Form (IGDS9-SF) and Mental Health Continuum Short Form (MHC-SF) was utilized as measures. Statistical analysis was done through SPSS V-26.0. Descriptive statistical tools w.....

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Recently, researchers have shown an increasing interest in flipped classroom pedagogical frameworks. This new paradigm flips the role of teachers and pupils in the classroom. Meanwhile, the recent pandemic has changed education dramatically with the distinctive rise of hybrid learning. Therefore, this study attempts to propose a new conceptual framework of how primary school Mathematics teachers collaboratively incorporate flipped classroom pedagogy in teaching Year Five Mathematics for hybrid learning. This paper discusses the literature review on the flipped classroom, collaborative teaching, and current teaching interventions during the new norm. The four main constructs supporting the conceptual framework are big ideas, tasks, tools, and talk. The new conceptual framework supports a hybrid collaborative teaching model for teaching Year Five Mathematics in Malaysia..

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Aside from documenting his daily life, Zhu Ziqing’s diary also recorded his interactions with other literati and scholars. The diary recorded 55 interactions w it h Tschen Yin Koh, however studies on their interactions have been scarce. Despite coming from different backgrounds and knowledge systems, Zhu Ziqing and Tschen Yin Koh shared the same literary viewpoint of “an era for an era,” which pertained to the syn ch ronicity of literary style’s development in the Tang Dynasty. This raises the concerns of whether their interactions affected their thoughts on Tang Dynasty's literary style. Hence, this paper took Tschen’s first appearance (1932) until his last appearan ce (1948) in Zhu’s diary as the temporal scope and investigated their literary thought and exchanges. Additionally, this paper explored the possibility of more academic dialogues between Tschen and Zhu, which is believed to be of significance to academic history...

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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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