The advancement of technology has undoubtedly brought rapid changes and catalysed developments in different aspects of human life, including education.Technological advances have led to the diversification of teaching and learning tools as well as educational materials which allows learning to take place in a borderless world of shared resources. This resulted in significant changes in the roles of educators and practitioners in the classroom. Thus, exciting transformations in education should be embraced and further explored, especially in language teaching and learning because language is an essential part of communication. Language has also become an important requirement for employment and is deemed as a key success factor in life. In this light, this paper aims to explore the effectiveness of e-Al-Munawwar website as a cybergogical tool to support the teaching & learning of Arabic language and improving students’ proficiency. To measure the effective use of these tools, this stu.....

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There is an ongoing debate among researchers and education on whether traditional teaching methods is still relevant in this era. It is argued that such methods do not gauge students’ interest towards learning and consequently create low quality of learning and negative trends. In this regard, researchers have advocated the use of digital games as an effective medium for learning. It is also argued that the use of digital games can positively influence the learner’s motivation and help facilitate early intervention. In this study, we used elements in the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to investigate the users’ acceptance towards the use of mobile digital games for learning Arabic language in the context of higher education. The quantitative approach based on the Technology Acceptance Model questionnaire was used as this study’s primary research methodology. The exanimation focused on four related constructs, Perceived of Usefulness (PU), Perceived Ease of Use (PE), Behaviour.....

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An effective teacher knows the form of technology that can be used in the classroom to help improve their students’ learning. They know what the best tools are, and how and when to use them. Digital game-based learning is a recommended approach which transforms the process of teaching and learning to be more interesting, effective and fun. It has the ability to encourage learners to embrace the challenges and not afraid of failure, create cooperative learning, develop personal responsibility and motivation to succeed. Therefore, this paper attempts to propose an instructional model to develop an educational mobile game application. In order to differentiate between edutainment and entertainment, the educational element must be integrated during the development of the educational game, hence, this paper describes the important requirement for developing the educational mobile game application for a course. This paper briefly describes the proposed model which consists of three parts; .....

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Rimba Harapan atau Jungle of Hope karya Keris Mas adlah salah satu dari tiga novel yang dipelajari oleh pelajar tingkatan lima pada tahun 2002 untuk komponen sastera Bahasa lnggeris. Ada terdapat beberapa persoalan berkaitan sosiobudaya yang merangkumi aspek-aspek politik, agama, sosial dan ekonomi di dalam novel ini. Oleh kerana ruang dan masa yang terhad, hanya beberapa persoalan utama yang akan disentuh secara menyeluruh...

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Designing curriculum for the teaching of English is no easy task considering the challenges that await the teachers in the classroom. After being trained with the most recent approaches and methodologies, these teachers are expected to be able to handle the students with high level of motivation and dedication. The paper discusses the issue of learner variability (LV) that has to be given utmost attention by curriculum developers in order to produce capable teachers teaching the subjects in schools. It also discusses the learner variability factor in helping teachers understand the teaching and learning process better. A proposed TESL program will be discussed as an example of how LV can make existing program at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris(UPSI) more viable and effective...

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Proses berfikir secara Matematik bagi para pelajar itu sebenarnya memainkan peranan yang signifikan dalam penyelesaian masalah-masalah Matematik tetapi jarang diberi perhatian sepenuhnya. Proses ini perlu diberi penekanan dan difokuskan dalam pembelajaran Matematik yang boleh dilakukan melalui pendekatan metakognitif. Menyedari betapa pentingnya guru-guru dan keperluan pendekatan metakognitif dalam proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran, maka satu penyelidikan dijalankan untuk membangunkan satu model pembelajaran matematik melalui kajian keatas pembelajaran berasaskan metakognitif. Pembangunan model pembelajaran matematik ini melalui kajian keatas pembelajaran berasaskan metakognitif mengandungi tiga tahap: a) kajian awal, diperihalkan dalam perbincangan berdasarkan kepada teori dan penyelidikan-penyelidikan sebelumnya; b) perancangan model, yang mengandungi aktiviti-aktiviti perancangan untuk komponen berikut: instrumen-instrument dan alatan-alatan pembelajaran serta atau model buku teks;.....

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The ability to produce and understand sentences is prerequisite to learning but many Malaysian students face serious problem in producing and understanding them. In this study, the knowledge and skills of simple sentence construction among 600 rural/urban students were investigated; observation and interviews with their teachers were carried out to investigate whether teachers taught sentence building. The students were asked to translate 80 Bahasa Melayu sentences into English. Their sentences were analyzed for accuracy and errors based on 8 different sentence patterns and different forms such as questions and passive. The results show that students' ability to construct sentences was very poor. The easiest sentence pattern was NP + be + NP and the most difficult pattern was NP + VP in the perfect. Their skills in forming all question forms were poor especially in using correct auxiliaries. The poor ability to construct simple sentences was evident due to the negligence of teachers in.....

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This study seeks to among others: create a bench-mark for ESL Malay students reading comprehension proficiency at the primary and secondary school level; identify the main factors that influence how much a student gains in reading achievement during a year of school; investigate the reasons as to why some students achieve high levels in reading while others do not and fail to read efficiently; find out what teachers do to increase their students' linguistic cues automatic recognition and reading achievement of what they read, whenever they read; document what teachers have done to increase ESL students' reading achievement and to suggest what teachers can do to increase students' reading achievement. The reading tests were conducted using Miller's (1995) Reading Assessment Techniques. There were six tests including: vocabulary tests, reading tests (word and parsing identification miscues), and reading comprehension tests. Participants were 1989 students and 360 teachers from both rural.....

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Traditionally, the teaching of introductory statistics course in many colleges around the world is through the lecture method where the emphasis is on giving students the rules and techniques to be memorized and drill set for practicing algorithms.Active learning in learning statistical activities, is rarely, if ever, being encouraged.The work done in an introductory statistics classroom can therefore become dry and technique-oriented and consequently fail to show the power and nature of statistics.This paper describes an experimental study where the relative effects of cooperative learning versus lecture method of instruction in an introductory statistics course for student teachers were examined. The experimental group was given learning materials or units using the cooperative learning method while the control group was given none of the units but received the same cognitive input through the lecture method. The study was carried out over a period of five weeks with an hour-long ses.....

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