This research aimed to analyze the effect of using media in the teaching learning toward the aspects of students’ selfefficacy and students’ self-regulated learning. The media used were chemondro and video conference on the subject of hydrocarbon. This research was set as a quasi-experimental post-test only design. The population was the students of 11 public senior high school in Purworejo regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The sampling technique was two steps of cluster random sampling. The samples of this study were the six eleventh grade students (the mean age was 16) in two public senior high school in those regency. The samples were classified into three classes depending the media used in the teaching learning, they are Class CG-2 using chemondro only, Class CG-1 using hybrid of video conference only, and Class E using both chemondro and video conference. The data of students’ self-efficacy and students’ self-regulated learning were collected through questionnaire for eac.....

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Modul Kesopanan telah dibina oleh pihak Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia (KPM). Namun, masalah ketidaksopanan dalam kalangan murid sekolah menengah masih lagi berleluasa. Oleh itu, kajian tindakan telah dijalankan bagi menambahbaik Modul Kesopanan dengan merujuk teori yang bersesuaian serta mendapatkan persepsi murid tentang penggunaan modul yang dicadangkan. Kajian ini menggunakan reka bentuk proses Model Kajian Tindakan Kimmes. Sampel kajian terdiri daripada 10 orang (6 lelaki dan 4 perempuan) murid tingkatan 1 hingga 5 yang dipilih secara bertujuan di sebuah Sekolah Menengah di daerah Beaufort. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam kajian tindakan ini melibatkan 4 kaedah pengumpulan data iaitu rekod kes disiplin, pemerhatian, ujian pra dan pos, dan temubual berstruktur untuk melihat keberkesanan pelaksanaan modul selepas tempoh 3 minggu. Data yang diperoleh adalah berbentuk kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Data kuantitatif telah dianalisis menggunakan perisian Microsoft Office Excel 2007, yang m.....

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The counselling profession is known as a professional body that is entrusted to deal with the well-being of clients. In order to help clients to have greater psychological development, group counselling is one of the methods to be utilized by counsellors. The competency of counsellors especially counsellor trainees in conducting group counselling is critical to ensure the quality and effectiveness of counselling sessions. However, there is a gap between the current training practices and student outcomes as counsellor trainees found to have a good knowledge on group counselling, but lack of skills to put theory into practice, especially to apply group counselling skills in their counselling session. Thus, this study was carried out to look at the best method that is preferably useful and most effective in teaching group counselling skills among postgraduate counsellor trainees in Malaysia. A total of 35 counsellor trainees was recruited from an education focused university in Malaysia .....

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This study explores the effectiveness of implementing literature circles to assist a group of ESL students to comprehend a graphic novel. Data were gathered from direct observation, interviews and transcripts of literature circles. The data obtained from the direct observation showed that the students participated actively in literature circles to comprehend the graphic novel. Besides, the data gathered from the transcripts of literature circles revealed that the students connected their responses with their personal values and experiences. Data collected from the transcripts of literature circles showed that the students made interpretations when they discussed the illustrations in the graphic novel. To gather data on the students’ perceptions of literature circles, evidence from the interviews showed that literature circles enhanced the students’ interaction, motivation and responsibility. Students also had the opportunities to share their personal responses in literature circles.....

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Pemahaman sejarah yang rendah terhadap fakta dan konsep sejarah yang abstrak dalam sesuatu peristiwa sejarah merupakan cabaran kepada murid berpencapaian rendah. Malah, penghafalan fakta daripada buku teks menyebabkan murid tidak memahami makna di sebalik peristiwa sejarah tersebut yang menjadikan proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran sejarah tidak menarik dan berpusatkan guru. Oleh itu, tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk mengenalpasti sama ada pencapaian pemahaman sejarah dapat dipertingkatkan melalui kaedah Sources-Peer Instruction yang diperkenalkan ke dalam mata pelajaran sejarah bagi murid berpencapaian rendah. Kajian ini dijalankan di sebuah sekolah menengah kategori luar bandar di negeri Perlis yang melibatkan seramai 31 orang murid Tingkatan Empat yang berpencapaian rendah yang dipilih dengan teknik persampelan bertujuan bagi Topik Tamadun Awal Manusia. Model Kemmis dan McTaggart, (1988) digunakan dalam reka bentuk kajian tindakan dalam kajian ini yang melibatkan pengumpulan data seca.....

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This study explores the discourse patterns produced by a group of ESL students and the roles played by the group discussion leaders in literature circles that effectively enhance their comprehension of the stories in graphic and non-graphic novels. Six ESL students were selected in this study and seven literature circles were conducted to gather data to address the research questions. Data were gathered from direct observation, interviews and transcripts of literature circles. The data obtained from the transcripts of literature circles showed that the students used different comprehension strategies during discussions such as questioning, evaluating, using prior knowledge, interpreting and summarising that effectively enhance their understanding of the texts. Turn-taking in discussions also showed that students with better language proficiency in English language dominated the discussions and could comprehend the stories more effectively. Data collected from the transcripts of the stu.....

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Reflection and the promotion of reflective practice have been extensively emphasised in the teacher training and preparation programmes. In teacher education, many researchers have argued the importance of student teachers (STs) being able to develop their skills of reflection. This study was conducted to investigate the STs’ level of reflection during teacher clinical experience (TCE) (or variously known as the teaching practicum). It sought to analyse the level of reflection among STs from the Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI) in the current practice of reflective writing and after given exposure to the critical reflection manual (CRM) during TCE. The present study employed Van Manen’s (1977) three-stage model (technical, practical and critical) to determine the level of reflection based on STs’ self-reflection notes in their daily lesson plan books (for the current practice of reflective writing) and weekly reflective journal writings (for STs who were given exposure to.....

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In this article, an attempt was made to explore English language teachers’ strategies for disciplining unauthorized behavior (misbehavior) in public high schools and private language institutes. To this end, two sets of general and specific teacher strategies for disciplining misbehavior were surveyed in two successive stages. First, American Teacher Strategies Questionnaire from the Incredible Years Programs (IYP) incorporation (2012) was examined to decide on the most appropriate teacher techniques for general Class Management (CM) scheme; secondly, teacher interview logs were used to decide on the specific CM strategies, which were characteristic of language classes. Then, a researcher-developed questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale was constructed and distributed among some fifty-five Iranian teachers from public high schools and private language institutes in four large cities in Tehran, Isfahan, and Khorasan Razavi Provinces, and their responses were analyzed using Multi.....

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This is an exploratory research examining written work in English of Malay college students, analysing lexical errors that occurred in their work, which were caused by the negative transfer from the students’ mother tongue. The study also categorized the errors and gave some pedagogical suggestions on reducing the lexical errors to improve students’ English writing. Students involved were Malays at foundation level, with an age range from 17 years to 19 years old. Out of 40 participants, 15 of them were males and 25 were females. The categorical analysis and findings of this study aim to gain educators' understandings on Malay-based lexical negative transfer problems in learning English and trigger educators to take note on the problems in order to improve students' language learning strategy...

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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether inner speech instruction had any significant effect on upper-intermediate EFL learners’ reading comprehension. To this end, 60 female subjects participated in this study and were assigned to the experimental and control groups each consisting of 30 participants. The same teaching materials comprising twelve reading texts were taught to both groups through a 10-session treatment with a difference in the procedure during which the experimental group underwent an inner speech instruction while the control group did not receive such an instruction. Results of paired samples t-test indicated the effectiveness of inner speech instruction in the experimental group. Moreover, the interview analysis revealed that the visual and auditory learners preferred to visualize and hear voices while completing the task and developing a positive perception towards the use of inner speech as a tool to enhance their reading ability. It is assumed that a.....

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