Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti kesan penggunaan aplikasi Kahoot dalam mengukur pencapaian murid bagi mata pelajaran Sejarah Tingkatan 1. Objektif kajian ini adalah i) membangunkan alat pengujian pencapaian menggunakan aplikasi Kahoot untuk mata pelajaran Sejarah; dan ii) mengenal pasti perbezaan penggunaan aplikasi Kahoot dan ujian bertulis dalam mengukur pencapaian murid. Reka bentuk kajian ini adalah berbentuk kuantitatif terhadap 30 orang peserta yang terdiri daripada murid Tingkatan 1 di sebuah sekolah di Melaka. Kajian mengapliksikan kaedah tinjauan dengan menggunakan soal selidik dan eksperimen menggunakan set ujian untuk melihat kesan pencapaian murid terhadap mata pelajaran Sejarah dengan menggunakan dua alat pengujian yang berbeza. Analisis statistik deskriptif dan ujian-t digunakan untuk menjawab soalan bagi mencapai objektif kajian. Hasil kajian mendapati alat pengujian menggunakan aplikasi Kahoot memberikan hasil dapatan yang positif oleh murid dan pencapaian bag.....

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Gamification in higher education is a new way in the learning environment for the 21st century. It has become an effective pedagogical tool to increase students’ involvement through immediate feedback on learning activities that allow them to reflect on what they are learning. The use of games as a pedagogical strategy is the basis for student-centered pedagogy as theyhelp promote a flexible teaching and learning environment that is in line with the curriculum stated in counselor  .To date, little research has been carried out that incorporates games in multicultural counseling pedagogy; hence, research needs to be conducted pertaining to this aspect. The article will highlight the development of a multicultural counseling gamification module known as “Immerze” based on the Gamified E-learning Design Process Model proposed by Malas and Hamtini. The Gamified E-learning design process consists of five stages; Planning, Design, Development, Deployment and Review. The article highli.....

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The article aims to examine cultural diversity levels and problems among students in Malaysian public universities (PU) covering six cultural diversity criteria, namelyethnicity, language, religion, gender, socioeconomic status as well as mental and physical abilities. Respondents consisted of 330 students who had met two requirements: coming from different varieties of cultural backgrounds and were students of semester three and above. The research instrument used was a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire consisted of 30 item questions. The findings showed that Cronbach's alpha value showed strong reliability of more than 0.7. Actual study findings showed that the language, gender and religion criteria were at high; medium level for mental and physical abilities and ethnicity criteria; low level for socioeconomic status criterion. As for the problems of cultural diversity, all six criteria showed low level. Correlational relationship between the problems of cultural diversity criteria .....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji pemulihan fungsi kemahiran motor halus kanakkanak masalah pembelajaran oleh jurupulih cara kerja di tiga pusat terapi. Objektif kajian adalah untuk mengenal pasti masalah kemahiran motor halus kanak-kanak masalah pembelajaran dan jenis aktiviti terapi yang paling efektif untuk pemulihan fungsi kemahiran motor halus kanak-kanak masalah pembelajaran yang menjalani terapi cara kerja di pusat terapi. Reka bentuk kajian kes telah digunakan dalam kajian ini. Pemilihan responden kajian dijalankan secara pensampelan bertujuan melibatkan tiga orang jurupulih terapi cara kerja dan tiga orang kanak-kanak masalah pembelajaran yang mengalami masalah fungsi kemahiran motor halus. Kanak-kanak ini juga merupakan klien kepada jurupulih cara kerja di tiga pusat terapi yang telah dipilih. Tiga jenis instrumen kajian digunakan iaitu senarai semak pengesanan masalah kemahiran motor halus, senarai semak aktiviti terapi cara kerja, soalan temu bual ibu bapa dan.....

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Kajian ini dijalankan bagi menganalisis perkembangan sosioekonomi Generasi Kedua FELDA (G2F) di FELDA Raja Alias3 (FRA3). Kajian ini menggunakan sampel seramai 100 orang responden secara rawak mudah di FRA3 yang terdiri daripada pelbagai latar belakang sosioekonomi. Metodologi yang digunakan ialah analisis semak silang, temu bual, soal selidik, pemerhatian dan analisis deskriptif. Tiga dapatan kajian telah diperoleh iaitu tahap dan bentuk sosioekonomi yang menunjukkan bahawa G2F mengalami proses perkembangan ekonomi yang kian meningkat iaitu 93 peratus terlibat secara aktif mencari pendapatan di FRA3. Namun, masih terdapat G2F di FRA3 yang berhadapan dengan masalah pendapatan yang secara relatifnya masih rendah iaitu 78 peratus memperoleh pendapatan di bawah RM 1000 dan hal ini merupakan penanda aras kepada status sosioekonomi. Penemuan yang kedua ialah faktor-faktor penglibatan dalam aktiviti ekonomi yang memberi impak kepada perkembangan sosioekonomi iaitu pendidikan. Hal.....

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The current study seeks to explore six Malaysian ESL instructors use of CML Web-logging in teaching English as second language to Malaysian students at higher education institutions. A qualitative approach was adopted to collect responses from the respondents. Data were collected using semi-structured interview, a set of questionnaires as well as a checklist of features of the web blog that is used to investigate the blogging activities and mechanisms used in the courses conducted by the respondents. The collected data from the interview were analyzed qualitatively, whereas the blog checklist data were analyzed quantitatively. The results indicated that in order to enhance their ESL instruction, the CML Web- Blogging instructors not only exhibited special ways of using the technology but they also designed various methods of exploiting the educational web blog capabilities in order to accommodate their pedagogical purposes and suit their specific course objectives...

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji kesan pelaksanaan pendekatan pembelajaran koperatif model Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) terhadap pencapaian murid dalam penulisan karangan Bahasa Melayu. Kaedah kuasi eksperimen digunakan dalam kajian ini. Sampel kajian terdiri daripada 56 orang murid Tingkatan Dua di sebuah sekolah menengah kebangsaan (Cina) di Kuala Lipis, Pahang. Kajian menggunakan ujian pra, ujian pasca dan soal selidik sebagai instrumen kajian. Sampel kajian dibahagikan kepada dua kumpulan, iaitu kumpulan kawalan dan kumpulan rawatan. Kumpulan kawalan terdiri daripada 29 orang murid, manakala kumpulan rawatan terdiri daripada 27 orang murid. Kumpulan kawalan mengikuti pembelajaran secara tradisional, manakala kumpulan rawatan pula mengikuti pembelajaran secara koperatif model STAD. Ujian-t digunakan untuk mengkaji sama ada terdapat perbezaan min yang signifikan antara skor dalam ujian pra dan ujian pasca penulisan karangan murid. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan .....

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The use of multimedia has become the demand of this 21st-century education where the material used has to include more technological devices and it also supports student-oriented learning methods. The use of this kind of technology also can be applied in English lessons like grammar. In the English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang, interactive e-book has been used in the grammar class, specifically in advanced grammar class for students in the academic year 2018. This study aimed to analyze students’ perceptions toward the use of this interactive e-book in advanced grammar class. The population of this study consist of the students in the English Department from the 2018 academic year. The samples are selected through purposive sampling whereby the sample was the class that used interactive e-book in their advanced grammar class. The instrument for this study was a questionnaire, which is divided into 3 sections: interface, interactivity, and material. The data was analyzed us.....

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This study investigated the expected ideal English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher of the L2 learners in Sri Lanka. ESL teacher is a key person in the ESL classroom in Sri Lanka. School is the primary spot for the vast majority of the L2 students to start their L2 learning in Sri Lanka. This investigation was led among 30 Sri Lankan state funded university students by utilizing the mixed method. There were non-English majors among the participants and participation was voluntary. The questionnaire data were analyzed by utilizing SPSS and group discussion information were analyzed through categorization technique. The results of the questionnaire analysis showed that, L2 students expect their ESL educators to have good skill in using English language, be well prepared, have the capacity to motivate the students and possess great individual characteristics. Furthermore, through the group discussion, it was identified that most of the students lost their inspiration because of the pers.....

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This paper discussed the translation errors in various top brands of instant noodles in Indonesia, ranging from the products produced by the local industries to the one imported from overseas. In this research, the researchers used a descriptive qualitative research method. The sources of the data for the objects of the research were ten cooking instructions or procedures of various brands of instant noodles in Indonesia, translated from Indonesian into English. The data were collected by documentation techniques. The types of data were words, phrases and sentences. The data were classified and tabulated based on the error types, following the standard of ATA’s Framework for Standard Error Making Classification. The result of the analysis showed that there were 40 translation errors, found in 10 of 23 error categories with Omission as the most frequent error produced. The three most prominent error categories found in the instant noodles’ cooking instructions are Omission, Mistrans.....

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