Kajian  ini  bertujuan  untuk  menentukan  hubungan  antara  kesejahteraan  psikologi, kepuasan kerja dengan hubungan guru-murid dalam kalangan guru prasekolah di negeri Perak.  Kajian   ini  menggunakan  reka  bentuk  korelasi.  Teori  yang  digunakan  dalam kajian ini adalah teori  Kesejahteraan Psikologi Ryff, teori Efikasi Kendiri Bandura dan teori Determinasi Kendiri Ryan dan  Deci. Kajian korelasi ini melibatkan 86 orang guru prasekolah  di  Perak  yang  dipilih  secara   rawak  mudah.  Antara  instrumen  yang digunakan  adalah  PERMA,  Job  Satiscfaction  Survey  (JSS)   dan  Students-Teacher Relationship Scale (STRS). Ketiga-tiga instrumen tersebut telah disahkan  oleh tujuh orang pakar dan nilai kebolehpercayaan untuk PERMA ialah α=0.91, JSS ialah α=0.85 dan  STRS ialah α=0.73. Data kuantitatif dianalisis secara deskriptif dan inferens iaitu peratus,   sisihan  piawai  dan  korelasi  Pearson.  Dapatan  kajian  men.....

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Sehingga   hari  ini,   kajian  berkaitan  kompetensi   jurulatih  Pendidikan  Luar   amat berkurangan  di  Malaysia  akibat  terhadnya  instrumen  pengukuran.  Sehubungan  itu, kajian  ini   bermatlamat  untuk  membangunkan  instrumen  penilaian  kendiri  tahap kompetensi  jurulatih   Pendidikan  Luar  Pusat  Kokurikulum  di  Malaysia.  Kajian  ini menggunakan  Model  Bricks  Wall   sebagai  model  utama  kajian  dengan  melibatkan seramai 350 jurulatih Pusat Kokurikulum  Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia dari empat zon di Semenanjung Malaysia. Seramai 110 orang jurulatih  terlibat dalam kajian rintis manakala   bakinya  (n=240)  terlibat   dalam  kajian  sebenar.    Menggunakan  kaedah Modified Delphi Technique secara 2 peringkat, pengkaji telah menentukan kesahan  dan kebolehpercayaan  instrumen,  mengkaji  tahap  kompetensi  jurulatih  Pendidikan  Luar Pusat    Kokurikulum   KPM   dan   mengenalpa.....

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This research aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of learning programming using robot- based  learning (RBL) approach on students’ academic performance and motivation. The study used a  quasi-experimental research design involving a control group and a treatment group, each consisting  of 20 students. Learning in both groups was carried out  for  a  month,  during  which  data  were   collected  through  programming  tests  and Course Interest Survey (CIS). Data were analyzed using  the ANOVA and the Kruskal- Wallis H-test. The F-test revealed that the difference in the mean  scores of academic performance   between   the   treatment   group   (mean=19.55)   and   control    group (mean=23.45) was not significant (F (1,38) =0.730, p=.398). Likewise, the Kruskal- Wallis   H-test,  which  was  performed  on  four  motivational  factors,  showed  that  the difference  in   the  mean  scores  of  the  attention  factor  bet.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan hubungan antara pengetahuan, daya tarikan syarikat dan keperluan peribadi dengan penglibatan mahasiswa Muslim di Universiti Awam dalam perniagaan pelbagai peringkat (MLM) patuh syariah. Konstruk penglibatan adalah berdasarkan kepada Teori Penglibatan Astin yang menfokus kepada keseimbangan keperluan peribadi dengan aktiviti luar. Kajian ini menggunakan reka bentuk korelasi. Sampel kajian seramai 377 mahasiswa Muslim telah dipilih secara rawak mudah berdasarkan jadual sampel saiz Krejcie dan Morgan daripada populasi kajian seramai 21,646 mahasiswa Muslim di tiga buah universiti Awam di negeri Perak. Instrumen kajian terdiri daripada satu set soal selidik yang telah disahkan oleh tiga orang pakar dan nilai kebolehpercayaan instrumen adalah tinggi berdasarkan pekali Alfa Cronbach, α = 0.90. Statistik deskriptif dan inferens seperti kekerapan, peratusan, min, sisihan piawai, korelasi Pearson dan regrasi pelbagai telah digunakan untuk menganalisis data.....

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There have been many controversies in the history of language education regarding the effectiveness of using students mother tongue in the classroom. Some researchers believe that it can cause interference and procrastinate the process of language learning while others believe that it can have educational benefits. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of using translation in teaching grammar to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. 30 EFL students were selected and randomly assigned to two groups, namely control and experimental. To examine the effectiveness of using translation in teaching grammar, the two groups were taught for 18 sessions using two different methods. In the experimental group, students L1 was judiciously used while teaching the grammatical rules, while in the control group, English language was used as the only language of instruction. After 18 sessions of instruction, the performance of the two groups in the pre-test and posttest were .....

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Deceitful behaviors are mostly verbal, largely culture-bound, and relatively political. Verbal deceitfulness gives us such a survival advantage that some evolutionary biologists believe that the capacity to speak and the ability to lie have been developed hand in hand. This study was an attempt to investigate the relative impacts of using verbal (VSL) and semiotic (SLS) liespotting strategies on Persian Speaking EFL learners’ interpretation of political discourse. A research sample of male and female EFL learners was selected and assigned into two groups (n1=30, n2=22). Participants were all recognized as intermediate EFL learners after running an English general proficiency test (PET). Later, in two parallel experiments, the participants were exposed to VLS and SLS in 16 classroom sessions before they performed on a post-intervention political discourse comprehension. Both experimental groups showed a lapse in their posttests. Descriptive and inferential statistics supported meaning.....

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The implementation of technology has provided the significant opportunities for language teachers to adopt online application and instruments to enhance learners’ proficiency in complicated conditions such as Coronavirus pandemic. Subsequently, with the improvement of learning technologies, EFL teachers face various challenges in language teaching. This study investigates the challenges that EFL teachers face toward the implementation of online teaching during Coronavirus pandemic conditions particularly in Iran. In achieving the goals of this study, 30 EFL teachers who worked in English language institutes in Iran participated in the study. These institutes have been closed to prevent the side-effects of the virus. This research is an exploratory mixed method research whereby questionnaire and interviews were used to explore the teachers’ challenges in online teaching and the efficiency of online classrooms. This research focused on two research questions; Are the technology integ.....

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The purpose of this study was to describe the quality of translation in news item text that were translated from Bahasa as the source text into English as the target text made by Yandex Translate. The sample data was taken from four popular online news website from Indonesia (1) Detik.com, (2) cnbcindonesia.com, (3) bbc.com and (4) tempo.co. The samples were selected using random sampling technique. The quality of translation was assessed using assessment scale adapted from Nababan. The analysis of translation in this study occured in each of the sentences or pharagraphs of the texts. The data gathered were analysed descriptively by using qualitative approach. The findings of the analysis showed that there were 41 data found from the sample of data. The first discussion of these findings with the detail result, it was accurate 13 (24%) from 41 total data, less accurate 18 (44%) and not accurate 10 (32%). The second is about acceptability with the detail result is acceptable 34% (14), l.....

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In the language planning and policy setting of the third millennium, the specific mechanisms in curriculums for educational states and schools are important in the process of transferring the high quality of instruction to educators. Accountability as a new and critical trend in language education has to do with these mechanisms which lie in governmental policies and helps us to understand how standards effects teaching and learning and how it can be implemented in language planning and policies. The governments try to achieve educational accountability through developing national standards for different curriculum domains, and the role of these standards is so dominant that it cannot be ignored. Following the influence of accountability gives us the reason for investigating how alignment and accountability interact with each other for districts, schools, and classrooms in which leads to enhancing the performances and creation of mutual relationships between accountability and intra-sc.....

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Reading skill is a text-oriented cognitive capability applied when interacting with the written text. It is an essential skill that affects language learning and even academic achievement. Despite research on language learning has focused and contributed to the expansion of English language reading research, EFL students and even teachers are often unaware of the reader-oriented strategies used in learning and teaching reading. Existence of this gap, however, does not justify the idea of having a sole model for reading across various genres and types of assignments as it seems unrealistic. Therefore, highlighting the key models in the area, this article critically reviews the previous studies conducted on reading strategies and reading comprehension skill and proposes a framework for exploring reading strategies in teaching and learning of English as a Foreign Language. This review may have some theoretical implications for the learners, instructors and researchers in learning, teachin.....

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