Nowadays the English language is considered a language of education, business and research. Since English is medium of learning at tertiary level and learners’ competence in English language decides their academic success. The aim of this study was to explore the undergraduate programmes students and teachers’ beliefs about communicative competence and its need for language learning at tertiary level. This study used a descriptive survey method to collect the data from teachers and students of the National College of Business Administration and Economics University and University of Central Punjab Lahore. 300 students and 25 teachers from the English Language faculties were selected using random convenient sampling method. The results of the study have shown that teachers and students have clarity about the concept of communicative competence and believe it is important for job and academic success. Teachers’ low proficiency, lack of interest in speaking in English, outdated syll.....

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This paper reports the findings on the development and validation of the Fostering Intellectual Excitement (IE) Questionnaire amongst the student teachers. Initially, 16 items which portray the construct of Fostering IE were generated and subsequently administered to a group of 248 teachers. Analyzing the dataset using the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) indicates that, while all the 16 items of IE were retained, they were nevertheless clustered into 4 sub-constructs, labelled as Group Discussion (GD), Critical Thinking (CT), Evaluate Peer’s Work (EW) and Knowledge Transfer (KT) respectively. This 4-sub-construct Fostering IE Questionnaire was again administered to 458 in-service teachers and the dataset were analyzed by means of the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) whereby each measurement model was tested to see the relationship of each sub-construct (or latent variable) with its measures. The finding shows that each of the four sub-constructs of the IE has the sufficient valid.....

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The focal point of this study is the investigation of the dynamic relationship between selected macroeconomic variables, including unemployment, inflation, interest rate and economic growth, in Malaysia. In order to achieve the aims of thisstudy, quarterly time series data from the first quarter of 2001 until the fourth quarter of 2017 was utilised. The Johansen Juselius Co-integration test was used to investigate long run equilibrium in the equation system, and the Granger Causality test in Vector Error Correction framework was used to evaluate the long-term and short-term relationships between the study variables. The findings suggest that a relationship exists between the variables in the long term, including unemployment interest rate, inflation and economic growth across the system equations. The results further suggest that, in the short run, a two-way causality exists between unemployment and economic growth. Moreover, the results show that unemployment affects economic growth, .....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti tahap amalan kepimpinan teragih dalam kalangan guru besardi Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) dan Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina (SJKC) di Semenanjung Malaysia. Secara khususnya, kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti tahap amalan kepimpinan teragih berdasarkan dimensi Visi, Misi dan Matlamat, Budaya Sekolah, Perkongsian Tanggungjawab dan Amalan Kepimpinan serta perbezaannya antara dua jenis aliran sekolah tersebut. Kajian ini mengaplikasikan kaedah kuantitatif yang menggunakan pendekatan tinjauan. Sebanyak 384 orang guru dari SK dan 379 orang guru dari SJKC telah dipilih secara rawak sebagai responden dalam kajian ini. Kajian ini dianalisis secara deskriptif dan inferensi dengan menggunakan skor min, sisihan piawai dan ujian-t. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan tahap amalan kepimpinan teragih secara keseluruhannya di SK (M=4.03; SP=.40) dan SJKC (M=3.99; SP=.45) berada pada tahap yang Tinggi. Selain itu, dapatan kajian ini juga menunjukkan dimensi Visi, Misi.....

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This  study  examines  the  discrimination,  exploitation  and  oppression  of  black African women  in western societies in Suzan Lori Park’s Venus. Specifically, the  study  investigates  how  the  playwright  portrays  liberation  of  the black  Africanwomen from such oppression using Spivak’s  concept of Essentialism and Mohanty’s transnational as  part of modern postcolonial feminist theory. The  study  reveals  many  ways  in  which  black  African   women  could  be emancipated  from  discrimination,  exploitation, oppression  and  ensure  their voices  are  heard.  These  include  embracing  education,  creating  awareness  on racism   and   objectification of   African-American   woman,   opposing   the pseudoscientific  belief  of  white  supremacy,  rewriting  the  history  of  black African women and recreating identity for African-American females..

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This research aims to investigate the Perception of lecturers in Malaysia toward implement of cooperative learning in the Arabic class. A total of 30 lecturers were randomly selected from 3 Malaysian universities; namely UPSI, IIUM, and USIM and self-reported instruments were distributed for data collection. The data were collected using questionnaire consisted 17 questions that relate with 3 Dimensions such as interaction and skill that digested from cooperative learning items were used as independent predictors while performance in Arabic class . The result of this research showed that the lecturers from 3 universities in Malaysia had positive responses toward the implementation of Cooperative Learning approach to teach Arabic Language...

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One popular clustering technique - the K-means widely use in educational scope to clustering and mapping document, data, and user performance in skill. K-means clustering is one of the classical and most widely used clustering algorithms shows its efficiency in many traditional applications its defect appears obviously when the data set to become much more complicated. Based on some research on K-means algorithm shows that Number of a cluster of K-means cannot easily be specified in much realworld application, several algorithms requiring the number of cluster as a parameter cannot be effectively employed. The aim of this paper describes the perspective K-means problems underlying research. Literature analysis of previous studies suggesting that selection of the number of clusters randomly cause problems such as suitable producing globular cluster, less efficient if as the number of cluster grow K-means clustering becomes untenable. From those literature reviews, the heuristic optimiza.....

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This research is conducted to study motifs of keringkam embroidery for the Sarawak Malays in Kuching. The objective of this study is to classify motifs and design patterns of the keringkam embroidery. Sample of study consists of textile collections belonging to Mrs. Salbiah binti Muhi and Miss Zainap binti Muhi, who are amongst the dominant figures in the keringkam embroidery industry in Kuching, Sarawak. Method of study involved Qualitative method through observations, interviews and document analysis to obtain research findings. In doing analysis, the motifs were re-created using Adobe Illustrator CS6 software for each of the motif in the sample of study. It is found that these keringkam embroideries were designed to floral patterns. Floral motifs commonly used for keringkam embroideries are motifs of bamboo shoots (pucuk rebung), roses (bunga mawar), trailing beans (kacang-kacang) and scattered flowers (bunga tabur). It is hoped that these findings can significantly contribute to th.....

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Research on the study of the motif and symmetry of the Malay Telepuk (Gilding Cloth) are not extensive in Malaysia. Many documented research by textile artists and researchers mainly touch on the history, aesthetics, motif representations/meanings, development of textile design and textile cosmology especially of the Songket and Batik.The Telepuk or Gilding Cloth is generated from the technique of enhancing and beautifying cloth using gold paper. The Malaysian States of Selangor, Perak, Kedah, Johore, Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan are the main producers of the Telepuk (Gilding Cloth). This paper is an analysis and the classification of the structure of the design pattern of the Telepuk(Gilding Cloth) through its symmetrical group that is the frieze pattern. The design pattern analysis is carried out on the cloth structure (badan kain, tepi kain, kaki kain and kepala kain) the sarong, kain lepas or selendang and the headgear. The sample of the Telepuk sourced from the Selangor State M.....

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Literacy is still the main problem in primary schools mainly among Orang Asli students. The level of literacy among Orang Asli students are very low. In the present time, there are many reading modules to help teachers in teaching and learning in preschool and primary school levels. However, modules or reading materials for Orang Asli students are scarce and this makes it difficult for teachers in Orang Asli schools to diversify their teaching and learning methods in a class. Therefore, this research aims to create a module that has a validation and high credibility to help increase a student's grasp in reading. ADDIE model was used as a base to create a model. This research involved five phases which is carrying out an analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation phase. A survey was conducted to assess the content validity of the module. The data was validated by three experts. The results showed that the LIKES Module for Orang Asli had a high content validity (>74 per.....

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