The learning of English grammar, especially the tenses has been recognized as a problem area to ESL learners. Learners produce numerous errors in receptive and productive skills of the English Language. This study examined the categories, types and sources of simple past tense errors made by 30 form two students from Sekolah Menengah Raja Muda Musa, Teluk Intan, Perak. The rationale for this study was to help the researcher to extend knowledge about simple past tense error and its sources. The instruments were two sets of compositions. The errors have been classified under two categories, interlingual and intralingual. The findings of this study indicate that respondents produced three types of errors, namely misinformation, addition and omission. The most frequent were errors caused by intralingual interference. Besides that, this study also indicate the sources of errors which are mother tongue interference, over generalization and rule restriction or wrong application of rule. The r.....

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This study investigates the effectiveness of using collaborative writing or small group discussion in enhancing students’ composition writing. Essays were given for the pre-test and post-test for both the experimental and controlled group, which comprised of twenty respondents each. A questionnaire was also given to evaluate the effectiveness of collaboration or small group discussion. The results of the tests were then analyzed for the study using the SPSS. The results proved that there are significant differences between using the conventional method and the collaborative method to teach writing. The findings strongly suggest that collaborative writing enhances students’ composition writing and that it is applicable in the teaching of writing. It is hoped that the English language teachers could use the findings of this study to modify their techniques in teaching writing to students and help them to overcome any problems...

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Phenotyping of human muscle based on its profile of myosin heavy chain isoforms is commonly used to help understand changes in muscle function. However, in many instances, measureable changes in force output or contractility occur in the absence of any change in myosin heavy chain profile. Therefore, more sophisticated analysis is required. Proteomic techniques including 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis, highperformance liquid chromatography and peptide mass spectrometry can be used to investigate changes in the abundance of hundreds of proteins simultaneously. To date, such techniques have not been used to specifically characterise the human myofibrillar proteome, or study how the myofibrillar proteome relates to muscle outputs such as peak isometric force or the velocity of contraction. This thesis presents a series of studies that develop proteomic techniques for the analysis of myofibrillar proteins as well as optimisation of techniques for measuring the range of muscle output fro.....

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The global spread of English has led many classrooms in the post-colonial contexts that teach English as a second and foreign language to pursue monolingual ideologies and to hire expatriate monolingual teachers. Monolingual teachers are posited to pursue more efficient teaching styles and classroom practices than the local teachers. However, there is very little evidence to support this claim. The few studies that have to date investigated teaching styles either did not focus on the teachers' beliefs or their classroom practices and they did not systematically compared different types of teachers in the same context. Although teachers' ideologies are deemed to be influential in shaping their classroom practices, not many studies have examined teachers' ideologies and its interconnection in classroom practices. Using ethnography multiple case studies design, this study investigates two types of teachers' classroom practices and ideologies. It particularly seeks to understand whether, a.....

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This research was designed to determine the factors that affect the “lonjakan Saujana” (momentum leap) in national primary schools (NPS) at Klang Valley. This research was conducted at 276 national primary schools in Klang Valley. The involved districts were: Petaling Perdana, Petaling Utama, Klang, Gombak and Hulu Langat. This sample consisted of the principals of those schools. The research involved these aspect: the co-operations of teachers, infrastructure facilities, leadership of principals, the support of PTA and the learning condition. This study utilized a correlational design. This findings show that the momentum leap of national primary schools in Klang Valley has significant relationship with location, the school’s performance, the principal’s leadership style, socioeconomic status, infrastructure, support of PTA and learning condition at school. This results also show that the momentum leap can increase parents’ confidence to place their children in national prim.....

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This research analyzed the Implications of Critical Discourse Analysis in teaching and learning Tamil in the context of Malaysian Higher Education. This study uses Fairclough's framework (1995), critical questioning framework synthesized from Fairclought's framework (1995), 5 point scale synthesized from Fairclough (1995), translated version of Watson-Glasor's Critical Thinking Skills test frame and a student's opinion elicitation questionnaire. This study comprises of 5 stages based on 5 research questions. They are: 1) critical analysis of the news paper articles by the researcher, 2) review of the differences in the critical ability of the students through the administration of the pre and post tests containing 10 synthesized questions reflecting the Critical Discourse Analysis, 3) study of Critical language Awareness of students through a 5 points evolved for this purpose, 4) study of the Critical Thinking Skills of the students through the administration ofWatson-Glaser's Critical.....

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The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the implementation of Computer in Education Program (COEP/KDP) and its effect to students in few selected schools in Sabak Bernam. It is a descriptive correlation study to measure knowledge about computer, understanding about computer, importance of computer usage and effect on academic performance among students after the KDP’s programme. This observavation had been made on 200 form two students in several school using 2 sets of quirie form. The data then collected and analised using the Science Social Package of Statistic(SPSS 11.5). The descriptive and infrence had been used to analise the questions. The thesis is made to investigate about the situations below here’s a significance coloration between the improvement usage of the computer and the KDP’S program. There’s a significance coloration between the improvement of understanding of computer and the KDP’S programme. There’s a significance coloration between the expertise in u.....

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Music as an aural art which cannot be used effectively without well-developed listerning skills relating to perception, cognition, memory, understanding, discrimination, judgement and valuing. Thus, selecting suitable media for teaching, such as appropriate songs can help in increasing students’ interests and improving their listening skills in music lessons. Previous research proved that students have high interests in popular music. This research was conducted to utilize and examine the effects of using popular music towards students’ listening skills achivement in melody specifically contour and range. The main objective of this study was to compare student’s achivement in posttest between treatment group which used popular music with students in control group which used songs recommended in KBSM. This study also aimed to examine the effect of background specifically gender and race towards achivement in using popular music. Finally, this study investigated the correlation bet.....

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The purpose of this research was to identify the understanding of art therapy among primary school teachers in teaching and learning process in visual art education. 104 respondents from 17 primary schools in 6 different zones were selected. This research employed descriptive quantitative research methodology. Five major aspects have been identified namely: demography, knowledge, awareness, competency and attitude to understand better respondents understanding of art therapy in the teaching and learning process of visual art education. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics, Independent-samples T-test, One-way ANOVA and Pearson Correlations. The findings of this study revealed that the knowledge of respondents in relation to art therapy was low in comparison to their awareness. Their competencies were also high although their knowledge was inadequate. This study found that that respondents attitude were positive towards art therapy. The researcher suggested that art therap.....

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Student's academic performance is a prime concern to high level educational institution since it will reflect the performance of the institution. The differences in academic performance among students are topics that has drawn interest of many academic researchers and our society. One of the biggest challenges in universities decision making and planning today is to predict the performance of their students at the early stage prior to their admission. We address the application of inferring the degree classification of students using their background data in the dataset obtained from one of the high level educational institutions in Malaysia. We present the results of a detailed statistical analysis relating to the final degree classification obtained at the end of their studies and their backgrounds. Classification tree model produce the highest accuracy in predicting student's degree classification using their background data as compared to Bayesion network and naive Bayes. The signi.....

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