This is an exploratory research examining written work in English of Malay college students, analysing lexical errors that occurred in their work, which were caused by the negative transfer from the students’ mother tongue. The study also categorized the errors and gave some pedagogical suggestions on reducing the lexical errors to improve students’ English writing. Students involved were Malays at foundation level, with an age range from 17 years to 19 years old. Out of 40 participants, 15 of them were males and 25 were females. The categorical analysis and findings of this study aim to gain educators' understandings on Malay-based lexical negative transfer problems in learning English and trigger educators to take note on the problems in order to improve students' language learning strategy...

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This study aims to identify the effects of the types of students humorous learning style as predictive factors in learning Malay Language Literature Components. The study also aims to identify the different students humorous learning styles in Malay Language Literature Components based on gender. The Perceptual Learning Style Preference Questionnaire was used and adapted from Reid (1984). The sample selection was conducted using a random sampling method. The study sample consists of 30 students of a total of 17 male students and 13 female students at a high school in the district of Bintulu, Sarawak. The results of the study were analyzed using inference statistics involving multiple linear regression and t-test. The results show that there were significant differences in terms of the types of students humorous learning styles as predictive factors in learning Malay Language Literature Components. The results also showed that there was no significant difference in terms of students hum.....

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By examining the intertwined relationship between Chen Jian’s (1497-1567) Huang Ming tongji ????(Comprehensive Annals of Imperial Ming) and the anonymous historical novel Yinglie zhuan ???(The Record of Heroes and Martyrs), this paper demonstrates that these two works together play a significant role in disseminating knowledge about the founding of the Ming dynasty from mid-sixteenth century onward. It first inspects how these two works and their later editions borrow from each other. Then, by paying special attention to the book forms of The Record of Heroes and Martyrs, including the illustrations, table formats, and special marks that serve as reading aids for the reader, this paper analyzes how these special designs might have helped the reader grasp historical information and envision the past of the dynasty in a way hard to achieve before the proliferation of books. While previous studies tend to downplay these historical novels for their Confucian didacticism and lack of artis.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti kebolehan guru untuk mengaplikasikan unsur kecindan secara bersahaja, mengenal pasti strategi pengajaran, media pengajaran dan jenis-jenis gaya pengajaran guru yang digabung jalin dengan unsur kecindan untuk merangsang afektif dan kognitif murid. Selain itu, kajian ini turut mengenal pasti jenisjenis unsur kecindan sebagai perangsang afektif dan kognitif murid dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran Komponen Sastera bahasa Melayu. Kajian kualitatif yang melibatkan kaedah temu bual, pemerhatian dan analisis dokumen digunakan dalam kajian ini. Pemilihan sampel bertujuan melibatkan 15 guru bahasa Melayu menengah atas dan 10 orang murid tingkatan empat di dua buah sekolah menengah. Tiga kaedah pengumpulan data digunakan, iaitu protokol temu bual, borang pengekodan dokumen dan nota kajian lapangan. Selain teori-teori kecindan (Teori Inkongruitui, Teori Kelegaan dan Teori Superioriti), Teori Pembelajaran Berasaskan Minda yang menghubungkan bada.....

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This paper explores the materials and media in environmental issues through the production of artworks. Due to our destructive behaviors to environment, we are facing many environmental issues, such as climate change, ocean pollution, Industrial waste pollution and many other problems. Environmental issues are not only causing a great concern of scientists, but also attracting the interest of visual artists. Artists all around the world are taking the opportunity to express their views through visual interpretation. These issues have been a prominent concern expressed in the theme of artworks. Through the exploration of media and materials, they construct a visual form representing environmental issues. Furthermore, by using descriptive analysis, all relevant artworks are examined to reveal the meaning behind their practices. Artists such as Néle Azevedo，Tomas Saraceno , Chris Jordan Marina DeBris, Jason DeCaires Taylor, Benjamin Von Wong , Shang Yang and Yao Lu will be discussed la.....

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Fan Ming ju can resist the pressure from human relations and remain purely objective in her book review while at the same time excelling in catching the subtleties in the literary works. T his paper interprets and analyzes her book review from three areas. The paper first looks at how Fan Ming ju examines the na rrative structure of literary works and Taiwan's spatial politics from the perspective of the discourse power. Next, it focuses on how literature reconstructs urban images by extract ing from memory and the subject consciousness binded in local writing. Fin ally, through her analysis of the literary phenomena of different eras, she has an unwavering devotion to Taiwan ese literature.  ..

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The article Makeup by Yasunari Kawabata provides a slender insight into the horrible experience that people overlook the smile of a girl with makeup and thus peeks into the unknown secrets of human development. Makeup is a kind of mirroring catering for women, reflecting their own life values through the visual, linguistic and symbolic standards of men. In ancient times , women had a high and sacred status and were worshipped by men for their reproductive organs. Men turned to language and writing to create a world of history in an attempt to conceal the sublime nature of women, while women were gradually sculpted as wea k, subservient and beautiful in men's eyes. In the symbolic world, men have unconsciously given women the power of beauty, which is the legacy of men's subversion of matriarchal society, but also the source of women's subversion of patriarchal power. Ther efore, make up is the attachment and sorrow for beauty in men' s mirror image, but because of this, wom.....

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Arab rhetoric is good statement and a powerful of influence. However, Chinese rhetoric  is  used   to  express  the  meaning  beautifully  and  clearly,  and  contains accuracy  and   comprehensiveness.  There  are  many  researchers  study  about  of Arabic and Chinese rhetoric,  but there are few comparative studies of “analogy style”  in  Arabic  and  Chinese  rhetoric.   Therefore,  this  research  aims  to  clarify the concept of rhetoric in Arabic literature and  Chinese literature. Also, it aims to know  the  opinion  of  scholars  in  the  “analogy  style”   in  Arabic  rhetoric  and Chinese rhetoric. This research analyzes the similarities and differences  in the analogy   between   Arabic   rhetoric   and   Chinese   rhetoric.   It   also   analyzes  similarities and differences in the analogy between selected short stories "Shams wa Layl" by  Mahmoud Taymour and "zhong guo yu yan gu shi" b.....

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Artikel ini memfokuskan tentang kehebatan tokoh intelektual Vietnam Nguyen Trai (1380-1442) dalam menyebarkan falsafah pembebasan semasa pencerobohan Dinasti Ming ke atas Vietnam. Perbincangan artikel ini berkisar tentang latar belakang Nguyen Trai dan sumbangannya terhadap pembebasan Vietnam menentang Dinasti Ming. Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah kualitatif dengan meneliti sumber primer hasil karya Nguyen Trai seperti Proclamation of Victory: Translation and Annotations of a Fifteenth Century Vietanmese Document, Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems of Nguyen Trai dan The Complete History of Dai Viet. Di samping itu, kajian ini juga meneliti sumber sekunder berupa buku dan jurnal. Hasil kajian mendapati penglibatan Nguyen Trai dalam pentadbiran Vietnam bermula pada tahun 1406 ketika ayahnya Nguyen Phi Khanh ditangkap oleh Dinasti Ming. Oleh itu Nguyen Trai mula menyimpan dendam untuk mengusir Dinasti Ming dari Vietnam dan seterusnya memberikan kedamaian kepada Vietnam. Nguyen Trai sete.....

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