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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This study investigates the cultural content and covert syllabus of one well-known widely printed English Language Teaching (ELT) course book: Passages 1. In order to analyse the content, two coding systems the Five Dimensions of Culture and the Categories of Culture by Chao (2011) were used. The findings indicate that Passages 1 has encouraged various aspects of culture with an emphasis on the presentation of products, persons and viewpoints of the West. The partiality for the Target Culture (countries with English as the native language) is clear throughout the course book in terms of the selection of reading texts, listening tracks, and the images. Findings indicate that there is a minimal focus on the introduction of local and the Middle Eastern cultures. The theme of 'universality across cultures', as a specific classification in this study, is mostly placed in the speaking practices which revolves around sharing personal experiences rather than engaging in intercultural thinking .....

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School-based print texts and didactic teaching appear slow and unexciting, thus there is a need to integrate social networking sites in the teaching and learning process. Facebook is one of the social networking sites that has captured the attention of educators in language teaching and learning. The use of Facebook in teaching Literature is beneficial and gives teachers the chance to improve teaching via a lively classroom. This study surveyed the perceptions of secondary school teachers on the use of Facebook in teaching literature. A 30-item questionnaire was administered to 100 secondary school teachers in Malaysia. The teachers from 10 states were involved in this study and they are currently teaching English language in secondary schools in Malaysia. The findings indicated that teachers found Facebook as the most useful aspect of Internet in teaching literature and they prefer to use Facebook as a teaching tool compared to the classroom blackboard. This study recommends the use o.....

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Creativity is one of the assests for developing countries to move towards industrialized nations. Therefore, elements of creativity should be developed from preschool level. Based on the findings from the literature in 2000-2016 on elements, criteria, process, products, and creative behaviors, a set of elements for creative assessment for preschool education was identified. These include inventiveness, authenticity, originality, flexibility, fluency, and imagination. This is useful to be used in a later study on how teachers incorporate creativity elements in designing creative assessment...

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The use of mother tongue in foreign language classes has been a controversial issue in the history of language teaching. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of using L1 in teaching vocabulary to EFL students. To do so, 72 participants (36 boys and 36 girls) were divided into 6 classes in three levels based on their language proficiency, namely beginner, elementary and preintermediate. The students in each level were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. In order to measure the effect of using L1 on their vocabulary learning, the control and experimental groups were taught for 20 sessions through the use of different methods. In the experimental groups, after teaching the new words through images and pictures, students’ L1 was used to tell the students the Persian meaning(s) of the words, while in the control group, the Persian meanings were not told to the students and only the target language and visuals were used for teaching the new words. The.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenalpast i strategi interaksi berkesan Bahasa Inggeris semasa sesi pengajaran dan pembelajaran oleh guru prasekolah di Daerah Kerian, Perak. Kajian ini juga mengenalpast i kemahiran pedagogi guru dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran Bahasa Inggeris serta penggunaan peneguhan dan rangsangan sebagai mot ivasi untuk kanak-kanak berinteraksi dalam Bahasa Inggeris. Pendekatan kualitat if dengan reka bentuk kajian kes telah digunakan dalam kajian ini. Pensampelan bertujuan melibatkan lima orang guru prasekolah Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia yang telah menghadiri beberapa siri kursus kemahiran Bahasa Inggeris pada tahun 2014. Tiga jenis instrumen kajian telah digunakan iaitu temu bual, pemerhatian dan analisis dokumen. Data dianalisis menggunakan kaedah tematik. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahawa penggunaan peluang yang diberikan oleh guru, strategi interaksi berkesan sepert i kaedah pengulangan, penggunaan dwi bahasa dan parallel talk dapat meningkatkan interaksi Ba.....

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This paper proposes four methods to approximate circular arcs using quartic Bezier curves. Barycentric coordinates of two/three combination of control points are used to obtain an optimal approximation. Interior control points of quartic Bezier curves are found by satisfying G 2 data from given circular arcs. The maximum errors between circular arcs and approximated curves are calculated using Hausdorff distance approach. Four different approaches are discussed which varies in terms of accuracy, computation cost and approximation order...

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Kajian ini bertujuan membangunkan modul pengajaran dan pembelajaran berdasarkan pendekatan pengajaran inkuiri bagi tajuk jatuh bebas dan gerakan luncuran dan menilai keberkesanannya terhadap pencapaian pelajar. Reka bentuk kajian kuantitatif ini ialah Reka Bentuk dan Pembangunan Modul. Bagi menilai keberkesanan modul, reka bentuk kajian ialah eksperimen. Pembinaan modul adalah berdasarkan model ADDIE. Kesahan modul diperolehi daripada dua orang pakar dengan mengambil peratus persetujuan kedua-dua pakar tersebut manakala kebolehpercayaan modul diperoleh melalui kajian rintis dengan menentukan ketekalan dalaman menggunakan pekali Alfa Cronbach. Keberkesanan modul terhadap pencapaian pelajar diuji menggunakan ujian-t. Kajian ini melibatkan keseluruhan populasi seramai 60 orang pelajar fizik program dua tahun di Kolej Matrikulasi Selangor. Mereka dibahagikan sama rata secara rawak ke dalam dua kumpulan iaitu kumpulan kawalan dan rawatan. Dapatan menunjukkan purata peratusan persetujuan ant.....

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This study aims to develop and acquire content validity Sofian Emotional Intelligence Inventory (IKESofi). This research surveys are using questionnaires. IKESofi contains 80 items consisting of 60 items was positive and 20 negative items that consist of four sub construct of Recognizing Emotions Self, Self-Management, Social Skills and Social Skills. The results showed that the items in IKESofi can measure the emotional intelligence of an individual precisely. IKESofi examination content validity was assessed by ten experts comprising academics and practitioners in the field of guidance and counselling. The validity of the content of each sub scale is 1 Sub Scale - Recognize Emotional Self obtain the content validity of 88%, Sub Scale 2 - Personal Management 86%, Sub Scale 3 - Social Skills 85% and Sub 4 - Social Skills 88%. Based on the validity of acquired content, several suggestions were made for improvement items...

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The author is a Malay student of music composition who researched his personal development as a composer by bringing together the traditions of his own Malay culture and traditions of Western composition techniques with his personal philosophical world-view. To represent the Malay-ness of his voice, the author examined and identified examples of patah lagu Melayu, the ornamentation employed in lagu asli, a type of Malay syncretic music. The examples of patah lagu Melayu were uncovered through score analysis, aural analysis and personal one-to-one interviews. The author’s philosophical world-view is Muslim. The daily practice of being a Muslim, which acknowledges a power greater than him, Allah S.W.T, is a guiding force in the author’s life. To grow the author’s artistic voice, the identified elements of the patah lagu Melayu and the sacred text of Islam were then interpreted and embedded into five new music compositions: Pujian, Dhikr Asli, Asli Row, Saxoasli and Takdir. These pi.....

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