The paper is about the effectiveness of using WhatsApp in teaching and learning Bahasa Malaysia as a foreign language to international students at the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Engineering Campus especially during pandemic Covid-19 issues. An experimental teaching approach is adopted in teaching language at USM Engineering Campus, involving Bahasa Malaysia language course. The research is on how students are able to learn more effectively by using WhatsApp in online learning, in order to develop their language proficiency in Bahasa Malaysia as a foreign language will be described. Experience from the experimental teaching and learning approach through “FUN WITH LANGUAGE IN ONLINE CLASS- through WhatsApp” provides valuable information on how students react towards WhatsApp application and how do they acquire their language skills through language learning activities.  ..

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Various educators and scholars have carried out the studies and research on Teacher Leadership for the last two decades. Findings have significantly shown that the teacher as a leader hold the key in improving the school administration and the students. Teachers are the closest persons, next to the parents, who are the motivator, the advisor, the knowledge giver and caregiver to the students. Teachers are the source in developing and creating the teaching and learning process to be a productive and effective environment. Teachers as leaders encourage their own development and that of their colleagues. They collaborate with other teachers and share their experience to enhance their skills in teaching and in administrative work. This article describes Teacher Leadership as one of the leading factors in increasing the school and students’ performance.  ..

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The Islamic capital market operates in parallel with convention capital market in expanding, deepening, and broadening Malaysia financial system. The Islamic Real Estate Investment Trust (Islamic REIT) serves as an alternative Islamic investment instrument to sukuk and shariah compliant stock, which observes Islamic REIT experiencing a significant growth and demand in portfolio property value and Islamic market capitalization. The attractiveness of Islamic REIT has made it to become one of the common real estate investments apart from the physical property investment with a long-term and cheaper capital for property ownership. Likewise, the continual expansion of the Islamic REIT market in Malaysia is making great financial motivation that expands the investment spectrum. Therefore, the need to review the Malaysia Islamic REIT framework to thrive and revitalize structures conforms to the shariah laws and the guideline issued by security commission of Malaysia. This inevitably means the.....

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This study is conducted to identify the relationship between teachers’ professional learning and teachers’ commitment and to identify the most dominant dimension of teachers’ professional learning that influences national secondary school teachers’ commitment. Survey method was used in this study with questionnaire as the instrument of the study. 506 teachers from 20 schools in Penang state were involved as respondents in this study. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used in the study. Frequency and percentage were used for descriptive statistics meanwhile Pearson Correlation and Stepwise Multiple Regression were used for inferential statistical analysis. The findings show that there is significant, positive and strong relationship between teachers’ professional learning and teachers’ commitment. Furthermore, reflection and collaboration are the dominant dimensions of teachers’ professional learning that influence teachers’ commitment in Penang stat.....

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The main purpose of this study is to examine the existence of cycle relationship between ESG disclosure and financial performance of listed companies in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. The secondary data of total 140 companies was extracted from Bloomberg database for period 2011 to 2016. The ESG disclosure of corporate is represented by ESG disclosure score, while earnings per share (EPS) is used to measure the corporate financial performance (CFP). Two years lag effect was assumed in this study to test how CFP in period 1 (2011-2012) influences ESG disclosure score in period 2 (2012-2014), and how period 2 ESG disclosure score affects the subsequent CFP, which is defined as CFP in period 3 (2015-2016). The empirical results of this study found significant positive (negative) cyclic relationship for Malaysian (Singaporean) companies, while no significant cyclic relationship is found for companies in Thailand. The findings suggest that only Malaysian companies gain the financial appr.....

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The prevalence of social, economic and environmental issues and problems around the world seems to surpass what the traditional entrepreneurship education could handle. Hence, the emergence of social entrepreneurship education as a complement to the traditional entrepreneurship education and empowerment for achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs 2030). Therefore, this study was carried out to determine the social entrepreneurship awareness and orientation of Business Education students in tertiary institutions to ensure their empowerment for realizing the Sustainable Development of the Nigerian economy. The study raised and answered two related research questions and also formulated and tested three relevant research hypotheses. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised all final-year Business Education students in public universities and public colleges of education in Lagos State, Nigeria. The sample size for th.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan pendekatan multimodaliti melalui mod linguistik dan mod visual terhadap interaksi bahasa dan imej dalam kartun Usik-Usik, di samping merumuskan isu-isu pendidikan di dalamnya dan mengesyorkan langkahlangkah untuk mengatasinya. Reka bentuk penyelidikan kualitatif telah dipilih untuk menganalisis kandungan teks multimodaliti kartun. Untuk tujuan ini, dua teori digabungkan iaitu teori Sistemik Fungsional Linguistik yang diperkenalkan oleh Halliday untuk menganalisis mod linguistik dan pendekatan visual semiotik sosial yang digagaskan oleh Kress dan van Leeuwen untuk menganalisis mod visual. Data kajian yang mengandungi sebanyak 50 ilustrasi kartun diperoleh daripada buku kartun Usik-Usik (Koleksi Sinikal Dunia Pendidikan). Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa teks bahasa merupakan mod linguistik yang bertindak sebagai elemen multimodaliti yang berkesan dan menjadi pelengkap kepada mod visual yang terdapat pada karya kartun. Strategi kartunis.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan membangun dan mengkaji kesan Modul Basic Concepts in Genetics (BCG) terhadap penguasaan dan kerangka alternatif konsep asas genetik pelajar Biologi. Konsep asas genetik yang dikaji ialah gen (KG), kromosom (KK), hubungan gen, kromosom dan DNA (HGK) serta hubungan pembahagian sel dan pewarisan (HPP). Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan reka bentuk kajian pembangunan berpandukan Model Sidek dan Jamaludin. Reka bentuk kuasi eksperimen digunakan bagi menentukan keberkesanan modul. Seramai 64 pelajar tingkatan empat dari dua buah sekolah di daerah Tawau dipilih melalui persampelan rawak berstrata yang terdiri daripada 34 pelajar kumpulan eksperimen dan 30 pelajar kumpulan kawalan. Instrumen kajian ialah Soal Selidik Persepsi Terhadap Modul dan Ujian Pencapaian Konsep Asas Genetik. Data dianalisis secara deskriptif dan inferensi. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan Modul BCG mempunyai kesahan yang baik dengan indeks kesahan 0.94. Hasil analisis terhadap persepsi pelajar.....

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Designing a questionnaire is one of the most difficult challenges in research design, particularly when deciding which level of Likert point scale is appropriate for the instrumentation. Suitable Likert point scale used in the instrumentation able to reduce the risk of facing potential problems of not achieving reliability (indicator and internal consistency reliability) and validity (convergent validity, discriminating validity, and construct validity) and simultaneously preventing the occurrence of multicollinearity. This study compares the performance of reliability and validity of measurement construct in Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) by using Likert 5-point Likert scale, 6-point Likert scale, 7-point Likert scale, 9-point Likert scale, and 10-point Likert scale. The study uses primary data based on a questionnaire data collection method which involves 100 samples from similar population characteristics for each Likert. The data were analysed using Smart-PLS software. The resu.....

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The main aim of this study was to articulate the green distribution and physical evidence practices required by polythene manufacturing companies for consumers’ sustainability in South-South Nigeria. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The study was conducted in the six States of South-South Nigeria. The population for the study was 323 comprising of 35 Marketing Lecturers, 60 Managers of polythene manufacturing companies, and 223 polythene consumers in South-South Nigeria. Due to the manageable size of the population, no sample was drawn. A structured questionnaire and focus group discussion (FGD) guide were the instruments used to collect data. The research instruments were validated by five experts. The reliability of the instruments was ascertained by the use of Cronbach Alpha reliability method. The total reliability yielded a co-efficient of 0.89, which indicated that the instruments were highly reliable. The questionnaire was administered directly.....

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