The objectives of this study were to investigate the reading ability of Malay students at primary and secondary schools, and teachers‟ practices in the teaching of reading skills. Miller‟s (1995) Reading Assessment Techniques, which comprised six tests, were used to test word and parsing identification miscues and reading comprehension. The subjects were 1989 students and 360 teachers from both rural and urban schools in Perak and Terengganu. Findings show that the majority of students were able to recognize linguistic cues at the word level. However, they had poor recognition of phrases and clauses, thus facing difficulties in processing sentences, especially complex sentences and main ideas in discourse (Ibrahim, Mohamed Nor, Abu, & Atan, 2007). Hence, the majority of students (Year 5, Form 1, 2 and 4) were unable to read textbooks provided by the Malaysian Ministry of Education because of higher readability levels (Carrell, 2001; Nation & Deweerdt, 2001). These findings could be.....

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The objective of the study was to investigate the order of English morpheme acquisition (EMAO) by 600 early adolescent Malay secondary students (MSS) aged 13 years (Form 1), 14 years (Form 2) and 16 years old (Form 4) who were learning English in two different settings: urban or English as second language (ESL) and rural or English as a foreign language (EFL). This was a cross-sectional study adopting a quantitative research method in gathering the data. Two method of written elicitation techniques (translation and compositions) were used to obtain responses from the subjects and two scoring methods (target-like-use and suppliance in obligatory context) were used to measure the morphemes supplied. The quantitative findings show that (1) the EMAO-MSS of different age groups in the same setting is similar, (2) the EMAO-MSS is similar to the order of English morpheme acquisition (EMAO) of Makino’s (1979) subjects (3) the EMAO-MSS in the urban setting is not similar to the EMAO-MSS in th.....

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Nama-nama seperti Sahmad Malaya, Baharuddin Zakaria, Yassin Salleh, Arisel BA (Subari Ahmad), Maznan Nordin, M.Z Alias dan Aripin Said sudah tidak asing lagi dalam peta perpuisian Melayu moden di negeri Pahang dan negara amnya. Nama Sahmad Malaya sudah muncul sejak tahun 1950 dan terus terkenal hingga tahun 1970an, kemudian tenggelam timbul dalam tahun-tahun 1980an dan 1990an. Manakala M.Z. Alias Baharuddin Zakaria, Arisel BA dan Aripin Said pula menghiasi era 1970an, 80an dan 1990an. Dalam tahun 1980an, 90an hingga kini, Pahang sudah melahirkan tidak kurang dari sepuluh penyair baru yang berjaya mencapai tahap kematangan seperti Marsli N.O, Yazid Idris, Nazri Sham, Maimunah Ali, Ami Masra, Maimunah Manan dan ramai lagi. Tidak kurang pula penulis-penulis muda yang giat menulis seperti Sharulnizam Talib, Khairul Bariah Arup, Abdul Mutalib Ghani, Nor Arifin Ibrahim,Nor Afliza Arshad,Hasejati, Ramli Yahya dan Iain-lainnya...

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