In Kelantan, the traditional pattern that existed in the designing the costumes for ‘Makyung’ exhibits the combination of organic and geometric styles. This balances and reinforces every produced design. The use of aesthetical values in designing patterns with underlying decorations is directly created to mirror the activities within its social community through resources that reflect their customs and culture. Based on the displayed designs, we can learn one branch in JKKN’s ‘Makyung’ performances in Kelantan. The research on the conservation of aesthetical values in designing traditional pattern for ‘Makyung’ costumes is a qualitative research, carried out descriptively through observing and analysing the performances, as well as interviewing the costume designer which entails the analysis of aesthetical and sociocultural values to explain the connection and role of the traditional designs in the costumes. The result of this study on the conservation of aesthetical valu.....

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The power of media is not to simply inform, but to transform the viewers’ beliefs, and to influence people positively and/or negatively based on their interpretations. Thus, this study was conducted to understand Islamic commodification signs on advertisement and to explore the effects of semantic noise interpretation based on the visual communication design meaning used. Symbolic interactionism and communication model are the two important theories in the visual field that are used as the main framework of the study. The study began with content analysis of 7 billboards as case study and continued with semi-structured interviews to get in-depth feedback from 12 informants. Maximum variation sampling was selected ranging from industry practitioner, educator to students from the same field. Thematic analysis is applied in this qualitative study, and subsequent analysis using symbolic interactionism theory in describing the result. The Islamic element is often appear in images and text.....

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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of archer’ attitude towards sport psychology on the effectiveness of the intervention. The study involved 21 junior archers (age= 15.0 ± 1.7 years) from recurve and compound division of State’s level team. The archers were divided into three groups including psychological (P), psychological with physical fitness (P+PF) and control groups (CON). They were followed a 12-week intervention training program. Sport Psychology Attitudes-Revised SPA-R (Martin et al., 2002) was used to measure the level of attitude among the both experimental group (P) and (P+PF). The outcome variables were measured after the 12th week of the intervention. The athletes in this study reported a high score of confidence in sport psychology, which indicated that they have a positive attitude toward the sport psychology services (M=5.27, SD=0.69). In term of gender, the results showed most of the female athletes have more positive attitude towards sport psyc.....

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the problems faced by students of the Science Stream focusing on one of the subjects in STEM, Biology. This study was implemented during “Program Perintis Guru 2” on January 2019 to February 2019. The study was carried out a total of 16 students of 4 Enggang 1, SMK Padang Enggang and a teacher was involved in this study. Initial reviews were conducted through verbal quizzes on teaching and learning sessions as well as subject teacher interviews. The results show that students faced difficulties in understanding and remembering topics because they were unable to imagine the shape or process of a cell. The students were exposed to theatre games during an hour of teaching and learning sessions and the study was conducted for 4 weeks. The results indicated that the application of ‘role play’ in teaching stem subjects through verbal quizzes at the end of teaching and learning sessions and before the next teaching and learning sessions, showed .....

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Students need to know their current levels of thinking and how to progress to the next level by self-assess themselves. Otherwise, they would constantly demand teachers to spoon-feed them to achieve a specific level. This is due to the students’ failure to master the lower order thinking skills level that hinder them from making systematic and strategic progress in their learning. The aim of this study was to evaluate a feedback of writing module based on SOLO taxonomy which apply self and peer assessment in their construction of writing development. To test the reliability of the module, a pilot study for the implementation of the module was conducted with the help of the English Language teacher who teach the remedial class in the selected school. The purpose of this pilot study is for ensuring the suitability of the module in terms of time allocation, clarity of instruction, suitability distribution of sub modules and organized activities. A total of 30 Year 5 low achiever learner.....

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This study was conducted to identify teaching methods used by Bagan Datuk District Tamil schools' physical education teachers. Quantitative approach with a one-shot case study design was used for this study. Total of 60 physical education teachers from the Bagan Datuk district were chosen using the purposive sampling method as respondents. A simple questionnaire developed by the researcher was used in this study to collect the data. The data were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that 66.7% of PE teachers apply the instructional method, 25% use the regular game's strategy, and 5% use the modified game's method. Analysis based on gender showed there were no significant differences. Both men and women teachers prefer to teach using traditional methods. Most of them said it's easy to teach in the traditional way rather than new methods because of no exam for physical education. In conclusion, most of the Tamil schools' Physical Education teachers are familiar with the instruction.....

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The education system in Malaysia has undergone a process of transformation. Recently, mobile learning (m-learning) has become a trend in education in this country. Face-to-face teaching and learning have shifted to online. However, research on the use of Mobile Learning (M-Learning) is still limited. Therefore, this study aims to identify the readiness of teachers towards the use of M-Learning for dyslexia students in terms of (i) Possibilities, (ii) Benefits, (iii) Preferences and (iv) External Influencers. Furthermore, this study also aims to identify the differences between teachers' readiness and gender towards M-Learning for dyslexia students. A total of 172 teachers throughout Malaysia have participated in this quantitative study. This online survey uses the Mobile Learning Readiness Survey (MLRS) instrument. The analysis methods in the research are mean, standard deviation and t-test. The data obtained were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 23......

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Kajian ini dijalankan bertujuan untuk memberi gambaran mengenai kemahiran sosioemosi kanak-kanak melalui aktiviti main peranan. Kajian dijalankan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan reka bentuk kajian kes. Peserta kajian terdiri dari enam orang kanak–kanak iaitu empat orang kanak-kanak lelaki dan dua orang kanak–kanak perempuan berusia 5 tahun, serta tiga orang guru tadika dari tiga buah tadika swasta berbeza di Melaka. Aktiviti main peranan telah dijalankan menggunakan tema hospital, restoran dan kedai runcit. Kaedah kajian yang digunakan di dalam kajian ini adalah pemerhatian, temu bual dan analisis dokumen melalui rekod Rancangan Pengajaran Harian (RPH). Instrumen kajian yang digunakan ialah borang senarai semak untuk mengenal pasti kemahiran sosioemosi kanak–kanak sebelum dan selepas pelaksanaan aktiviti main peranan. Soalan temu bual separa berstruktur turut digunakan untuk mendapatkan pandangan dan meneroka pengetahuan guru mengenai kepentingan kemahiran so.....

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Job creation is critical to the economic well-being and has become an urgent national priority. Such issue thus creates a need for further investigation to address the severe unemployment problems among graduates. The main objective of this study is to construct a TM instrument as job creators. Results from previous studies and interviews with seven experts showed that the need for TVET graduates to strengthen their talent management as job creators leads to nine main elements, namely (i) Job Adaptation Ability, (ii) Technological Ability, (iii) Team Skills, (iv) Lifelong Learning, (v) Communication Skills, (vi) Innovative Thinking, (vii) Leadership, (viii) Entrepreneurial Thinking, and (ix) Ethical and Professional Values. This study used the Modified Delphi technique to obtain experts’ agreement on the Talent Management elements and items developed based on the findings from previous studies and interviews. Their areas of expertise include career development, TVET, and industry man.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan mengenal pasti struktur keperibadian id, ego dan superego watak dalam cerpen Vairamuthu. Selain itu, kajian ini turut menganalisis perkembangan keperibadian watak berdasarkan mekanisma pertahanan ego dan menghuraikan pengajaran yang dapat diambil daripada watak tersebut dalam 15 cerpen karya Vairamuthu. Kajian ini berbentuk kualitatif yang menggunakan kaedah analisis teks berdasarkan teori Psikoanalisis yang dipelopori oleh Sigmund Freud. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa 18 watak memaparkan keperibadian id, 14 watak memperlihatkan keperibadian ego dan 16 watak mencerminkan keperibadian superego dalam cerpen Vairamuthu. Selain itu, tujuh daripada 10 jenis mekanisma pertahanan ego, iaitu rasionalisasi, represi, pembentukan reaksi, agresi, pemindahan, projeksi dan sublimasi dapat dikesan dalam perkembangan keperibadian watak cerpen Vairamuthu. Dalam pada itu, terdapat 21 pengajaran yang dapat diambil berdasarkan watak dalam cerpen Vairamuthu. Kesimpulannya.....

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