This study examined the effects of parent-child interactive music therapy on sentence verbalisation in a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and was conducted via a case study design. The participants were a boy with autism spectrum disorder and his mother. The child and his mother attended interactive music therapy sessions that provided singing, instrument playing, songwriting, and movement. Twelve sessions were conducted during this study consisting of two initial assessments and 10 intervention sessions. The initial assessments determined the child’s behaviour while in an environment with music and his preferred music. The intervention sessions consisted of two parts to enhance the child’s sentence verbalisation. The first part aimed to teach and assess words through pre-composed songs. The second part aimed to motivate the child’s sentence verbalisation using one selected song and measured the verbalisation score using a verbalisation rating scale. The results showed t.....

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Objektif  kajian  ini  ialah  untuk  mengenal  pasti  kesan  penggunaan  Modul  Pembentukan Amalan  Profesionalisme ke atas amalan  profesionalisme dalam membentuk personaliti, sahsiah  dan   kepimpinan  guru  pra  perkhidmatan.  Reka  bentuk  kajian  ini  menggunakan pendekatan   kuantitatif  yang  mengaplikasikan  reka  bentuk  eksperimen  kuasi  teknik  pra ujian-pasca  ujian   dengan  kumpulan  kawalan  dan  kumpulan  rawatan.  Bagi  kumpulan kawalan, kaedah kuliah  dilaksanakan ketika pengajaran dan pembelajaran. Bagi kumpulan rawatan, kaedah penggunaan Modul  Pembentukan Amalan Profesionalisme dilaksanakan ketika  pengajaran  dan  pembelajaran.  Data  tahap   amalan  profesionalisme  dikumpulkan dengan pelaksanaan ujian pra dan ujian pasca, menggunakan  instrumen ujian kajian kes. Seramai  70  orang  guru  pra  perkhidmatan  dipilih  sebagai  subjek   kajian  melalui  kaedah pensampelan intact class dari .....

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While the tehnaku, the iconic six-string curved neck harp of the Pgaz k’Nyau (Sgaw Karen) people has made a strong comeback after 19th and 20th century, scholars lamented its demise, many other traditional bamboo instruments of the Pgaz k’Nyau still remain little-known, not only in academia but increasingly within Pgaz k’Nyau communities themselves, due in part to national forestry laws, resettlement and evictions, modernisation campaigns, and an increasing scarcity of, or restricted access to, certain natural and cultural resources. This ethnographic study investigates the various uses of bamboo in two Pgaz k’Nyau communities in Thailand, illustrating the importance of local knowledge of natural resources and the place of bamboo in shaping Pgaz k’Nyau music, ethics, aesthetics, ecological activity, beliefs and social relations. Bamboo musical instruments, in legends and in everyday application, are co-created with help from rodents and insects, lure wild pigs from the forest.....

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It is important for music teachers to reflect on the influence of their role during lessons. However, the roles of teachers, and expectations from both teachers and parents are often unclear, resulting in role confusion on both sides. The purpose of this collective case study is to describe and understand the expectations of both parents and teachers of the teacher’s role in group music lessons for pre-school children in the Klang Valley1of West Malaysia. Two semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten parents and three teachers of three group music classes for pre-school children. This study situates role theory as a conceptual framework to explore the perspectives of parents and teachers on the expected roles of teachers in group music lessons. Five broad categories of themes emerged, namely parent-teacher perspectives on teachers’ roles asmulti-faceted professionals, authorities on music, entrepreneurs, mentors and communicators. A novel finding showed that teachers in We.....

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The purpose of this study was to examine the propagation ability of Punica granatum L. through tissue culture system. In addition, callus induction was also carried out in the study  to observe the rate of cell differentiation on explants. The experimental design that was used in  this research is Completely Randomized Design (CRD). The complete regeneration of the Punica  granatum L. plant and callus production was successfully produced through the tissue culture  technique. Explants used in this study were leaves, stem  and  roots  from  8-week-old  aseptic   seedlings.  All  cultures  were  stored  at  a temperature of 25 ± 1ºC and light 16 hours of light,  8 hours dark. Plant acclimatization was done on three different medium, garden soil, coco peat and  vermiculite. All data was  recorded  and  analyzed  using  ANOVA.  Leaf  explants  were  found  to   be  very responsive   and   Murashige   and   Skoog   (MS)   medium   add.....

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Kajian  ini  bertujuan  untuk  mengenal  pasti  faktor-faktor  yang  mempengaruhi  tahap  pengintegrasian  teknologi  maklumat  dan  komunikasi  (TMK)  dalam  pengajaran  dan pembelajaran  (PdP) guru Sekolah Rendah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina daerah Seremban. Kajian  ini  menggunakan  reka   bentuk  tinjauan  melibatkan  799  orang  guru.  Data dikumpul  menggunakan  borang  soal  selidik.   Data  dianalisis  menggunakan  statistik deskriptif dan inferens. Kajian ini mendapati tahap  kesesuaian TMK dalam PdP (β = 0.188,  p..

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti keberkesanan program latihan pliometrik terhadap prestasi  lompatan dan  perubahan fizikal atlet. Seramai 24 orang atlet lelaki acara lompat jauh  lelaki  bawah  12  tahun  di  daerah  Cameron  Highland  terlibat  sebagai  peserta.  Peserta    kajian dibahagikan kepada  12 orang responden kumpulan kawalan dan 12 orang kumpulan rawatan.  Program  latihan  pliometrik  dijalankan  sebanyak  dua  (2)  kali  seminggu  selama  enam  (6)  minggu. Ujian prestasi lompatan, ujian lompat menegak, ujian lompat jauh berdiri, ujian squat, ukur  lilit otot peha dan   ukur lilit otot betis diukur semasa ujian  pra dan   ujian pasca. Data  dianalisis  dengan  menggunakan  ujian  ANOVA  dua  hala  untuk  mengenal  pasti    perbezaan  antara kumpulan,  masa ujian  dan  interaksi  antara kumpulan  dan  masa ujian.  Dapatan  kajian  menunjukkan  bahawa  terdapat  peningkatan  prestasi  pada  k.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan bagi mengenal pasti item, konstruk literasi karbon serta membina model  literasi  karbon  bagi  pelajar  peringkat  sekolah  menengah  rendah  di  Wilayah  Persekutuan  Putrajaya.  Pendekatan  kuantitatif  dengan  reka  bentuk  tinjauan  telah digunakan    dalam   kajian   ini.   Sampel   kajian   terdiri   daripada   463   orang   pelajar Tingkatan   2    dengan   menggunakan   teknik   pensampelan   rawak   berkelompok. Instrumen soal selidik dibina  melalui proses Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) untuk mendapatkan  pengelompokan  item  dan   konstruk  kajian,  manakala  Confirmatory Factor  Analysis  (CFA)  digunakan  bagi  menguji   kesahan  dan  kebolehpercayaan konstruk.    Seterusnya,    model    pembentukan    literasi     karbon    dibina    dengan menggunakan Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Dapatan kajian EFA dan  CFA berjaya  menerbitkan  empat  kons.....

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In a letter to the publisher Ricordi dated 6 February 1821, the Italian guitarist and composer Mauro Giuliani wrote that, after getting acquainted with Gioachino Rossini in Rome, Rossini lent him many autographs of his operas so that the guitarist could transcribe whatever he liked from them. From this loan were born Le Rossiniane Opp. 119–124, six potpourris for solo guitar which are considered Giuliani’s greatest musical accomplishment. Although it is likely that most of the sources of Le Rossiniane were Rossini’s originals, there is also epistolary evidence that Giuliani also transcribed themes from scores provided to him by his publishers. This fact is the point of departure from which this article explores the possible sources for two opera themes transcribed in Le Rossiniane No. 2, Op. 120, and No. 3, Op. 121. The data presented here, coming from opera and music publishing history, conveys that such themes may have been transcribed from two specific vocal scores issued by V.....

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Kajian  ini  bertujuan  untuk  mengkaji  tema,  ciri-ciri  dan  fungsi  jaku  sema  dan  jaku silup  dalam  pengajaran  bungai  jaku.  Kajian  ini  memfokuskan  kepada  tiga  objektif utama  iaitu menghuraikan tema, mengenal pasti ciri-ciri dan menjelaskan fungsi jaku sema  dan  jaku   silup  dalam  bungai  jaku.  Kajian  ini  memanfaatkan  dua  teori  iaitu semantik  dan  semiotik   menurut  C.  S.  Pierce  untuk  merungkai  objektif  kajian. Pengkaji telah menggunakan tiga kaedah  iaitu kaedah kepustakaan, kaedah lapangan dan  kaedah  pemerhatian.  Kaedah  lapangan  dan   pemerhatian  telah  dilakukan  di beberapa buah sekolah bersama dengan pelajar sekolah menengah.  Lima belas soalan berkaitan  dengan  ciri-ciri  jaku  sema  dan  jaku  silup  disediakan  dan   telah  diisi  oleh responden.  Analisis  deskriptif  telah  dimanfaatkan  untuk  menjawab  semua   soalan. Dapatan  kajian  menunjukk.....

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