With an almost four main sections largely untouched and the fact that the following two final sections have seen just three paragraphs and part of a sentence deleted, this paper is an almost exact version of the report issued in the written examination of a PhD thesis. Comprising of seven sections in total including the introduction, it details out in the middle four sections the four types of problems found in the concerned thesis: first, problems of writing such as the lack of clarity, nonexistent flows and careless write ups; second, research fundamentals’problems covering topics such as the conceptual framework, hypotheses and data analyses; third, problems with the presentation for parts of the thesis such as the table of contents and the references; and, fourth, extreme problems which should have never ever been committed for one reason or another – hence, they are labeled as the totally, totally nauseating problems a.k.a. the unpardonable sins! Following the delineation of t.....

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This paper aims to discuss an approach of propaganda used by the military regime of Japan (Dai Nippon), during the liberation campaign of Greater East Asia in Malaya in the timespan of 1942 to 1945. The methods used is through the impact and influence of visuals as a platform of effective indoctrination. The strategy is known as Minshin Ha’aku (winning the hearts of the people) and Senbu Kosaku (indoctrination and subduing of the people), the propaganda that attacked Western exploitation of Asia and the West lack respect of Asian peoples and culture. Hence, portrayed Japan as the liberator and leader of a newly united Asia. Freedom from White Domination, freedom from injustice and oppression. The Japanese regime, through the Department of Propaganda (Senden-Bu) is a unit that is responsible to enforce this program, through rigid censorships before it reaches the masses. Hence, this paper systematically analyses the visuals as a propaganda entity that can persuade the people of Malaya.....

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The results of the exercise on the Wall-Faced seating arrangement in an architecture thesis design studio reveal the positive effects on the progress, concentration, and design of the students. The seating arrangement encouraged the students for more design products and development through increase the sense of competition. The seating arrangement changed the concentration of the students from the central part of the studio as a location for social interaction toward the drawing board as the learning target of the studio with more concentration on the drawing boards. The seating arrangement changes the concentration from the people in the studio as subject to the drawing board and design development as the object. In the new seating from the level of the collaboration between the students enhanced and the students communicated consistency to enhance the level of the design project in the studio. The research findings reveal that the students present five behavioural patterns in the des.....

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Academic texts have been characterized by the high number of noun phrases; however, to the best the researcher's knowledge, no prior study has investigated the syntactic complexity of noun phrases in abstracts written by native and non-native MA and PhD applied linguistics students. In an attempt to fill this gap, a corpus of 40 abstracts written by native and non-native MA and PhD applied linguistics students was collected and examined. Using two computer applications (L2SCA and TAASSC), the researcher analyzed the corpus to pinpoint possible differences. The findings of this study showed that there were some similarities and differences between the syntactic structures employed in the abstracts of native and non-native MA and PhD students. The results showed that noun phrase syntactic complexity measures (examined through TAASSC) were not successful in differentiating native versus non-native and MA versus PhD writers. The findings suggest that other measures rather than noun phrase .....

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This aim of this study is to investigate the perspectives of Korean pre-service music teachers on self-directed thesis seminar conducted in the graduate teacher education program. This research focused on 1) the attitude of pre-service music teachers towards self-directed thesis seminar and 2) the impact of self-directed thesis seminar on the progress of the pre-service music teachers’ performance. Ten pre-service music teachers participated in the researcher’s thesis seminar. The results demonstrated that most of the participants were anxious and insecure in managing the various educational resources as well as monitoring the progress of their study. However, the selfdirected thesis seminar has indirectly provided the participants with a new learning environment to manage their own goals, initiate their own learning, and responsible for their own progress and outcomes. The findings also showed that collaborative learning is essential as an instructional approach in self-directed l.....

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Chang Hsueh-cheng, a scholar from Dynasty Qing said that “record the life and current events as well as his attitude, subsequently understand his word, this is the knowledge of knowing both the author and his time.” Nianpu or chronology speaks for itself, clearly proved the meaning of it’s existence. For instance, historian Chien Ta-hsin on his own published five chronology books, he put emphasis on the character’s date of birth and death, he published a book “The Questionable Date of Birth and Death”. Hu Shih named it as the “embroidery needle” style of academy training. On the Malaysian academic history and literary history, very few scholar put emphasis on it. By the writing method of chronology, this thesis shows the three most significant periods of Seow Yeoh Thian (1913-1990) which from Teo Yeonh, Hong Kong and Nanyang, reflecting the changes of times, rise and fall of life, and the influences among the both social politic and the mind of writing.  ..

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Using language function as the basis of research, Forensic linguistics helps in soving the problems related to crime and punishment for the police and judicial departments. In the legal processes, the important language evidences are to be analysed from the point of view of linguistic principles and research methods to help the Law courts in solving criminal problems.  For this purpose, the present paper has brought in evidences giving eight crimes that occurred in Tamil Nadu. The data were collected from the author’s Ph.D. thesis. The article follows the structural and comparative method to analyse the materials. It has also brought out the six language functions proposed by Jacobson, namely, Referential function, Poetic function, Emotive function, Conative function, Phatic function and Metalinguistic function and uses the principles of them in analysing the confessions, statements, etc. and helps in identifying the culprits. Furthermore, the article helps in analysing the languag.....

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This research targeted the concept of Qura’anic miracle of Abi Sulaiman AL-Khattabi (388A.H). It handled the theories and concepts that were exposed in his time and implemented them in his thesis entitled: "Explaining the Qura’anic Miracles", which is a nice thesis in this field. The thesis focused upon documenting the theories revealed before the author's time about the places of the Qura'anic miracle. He discussed them with his subjective critique, soft sense and honest sense. He refused the miracle to be the idea of inflection; he also rejected the issue of informing about hides. So, he started to reveal the miracle in the Qur'an systems and its authorization . The discussion of the views that have been said in the miracle which are not of it and the exploring that they are not true and reject them brought him to great impact results which revealed his point of view in understanding the miracle ...

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The use of ICT in teaching and studying mathematics helps students to develop mathematics. The practice's application, therefore, depends on different considerations, amongst which: teachers' expectations of their ICT teaching skills, instructor attitudes towards teachers in mathematics, teacher attitudes towards ICT contributions to student mathematics awareness. The research was undertaken to assess ICT integration readiness in the classroom in the Paracelis district for mathematics teachers at secondary schools. The thesis used a questionnaire with comments on any of the above variables. This questionnaire was forwarded to 15 mathematics teachers at Paracelis District secondary schools. It shows that ICT teachers' intervention in mathematics has an average limit of 4.06. It also ensures that mathematics teachers are confident and willing to use ICT in mathematics and mathematics instruction. The research results indicated that the controls and the sample groups were substantially di.....

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A language has long been agreed by most philosophers as value-laden and as a source of ideas and concepts, and in fact as an initiator of a unique knowledge. This is implicitly described by Whorf (1940) and Sapir (1949) in the field of humanities and first by Cisserer (1942) in sciences. However, until today the public still believe, especially among the people in colonised countries such as the people of Malaysia, that a language is only passive vehicle or medium of information and knowledge. A reason for this situation to happen is that the original knowledge in Malay language, especially in science and mathematics is not known even to teachers and scholars even though Hassan (2003; 2016) has tried to show the converse has happened in the classical Malay in arts but it is not sufficiently convincing. Shahrir (2014a) provides some examples in science and mathematics in the old and classical Malay but again no significantly highlighted the importance, the originality and uniqeness of t.....

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