The most important thing about reading is comprehension. Reading comprehension is the heart and soul of reading (Block, Gambrell & Pressley, 2003). Learning to read with good comprehension is a complex task. Comprehension is complicated and it requires strategies to construct meaning effectively. Because of its significance, this study is to investigate the strategies used by students to construct, to monitor and to evaluate what they are reading. Think-aloud protocol analysis is the method used in this study. The think-aloud protocol are the coded according to the procedure developed by Cote & Goldman (2004) which involved five concrete reading strategies: self-explanation, paraphrase, prediction, association and monitoring. The results indicate that better students used a wide range of strategies to construct meaning. Monitoring, a skill which is often cited as important to comprehension (Reutzel & Cooter, 2005) is evident in all the think-aloud protocols. The weaker students identif.....

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This research investigates a group of primary five students utilizing their prior knowledge as they construct meaning while reading the expository texts in the English as the Second Language (ESL) classroom. In this case, the students are viewed as bringing personal meaning actively to the reading process. The reading comprehension lessons were carried out with a group of elementary students’ reading behaviours being observed and audio-recorded and the data were collected and analyzed qualitatively. The KWLS grid was used to assist students to activate their prior knowledge by generating questions and discussion to construct meaning while reading. Activating and developing prior knowledge presents background material supporting the importance of schemata and prior knowledge for literacy development. In short, the outcome of this research showed that comprehension can and should be taught. At this time, the challenge for the field is to mesh research with reality. Students of all ages.....

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Kajian ini bermatlamat untuk meninjau tahap pentadbiran dan kepimpinan guru-guru dalam mempengaruhi pencapaian kokurikulum murid di sekolah-sekolah yang terletak di daerah Kinta Selatan, Perak. Dalam komponen pentadbiran, faktor-faktor yang dikaji terdiri daripada segi perancangan, pengawalan dan penilaian. Dalam komponen kepimpinan guru, tiga aspek dari segi kesediaan, pengetahuan dan komitmen ditinjau terhadap pencapaian kokurikulum murid. Sampel kajian terdiri daripada 240 orang guru penasihat kokurikulum daripada 15 buah sekolah jenis kebangsaan cina di daerah Kinta Selatan, Perak. Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah penyelidikan kuantitatif. Data yang diperoleh dianalisis dengan menggunakan kaedah deskriptif dan ujian korelasi Pearson. Dalam kajian ini, tahap diukur mengikut skala yang dibina berdasarkan skor min iaitu tahap rendah (1.00-2.33), tahap sederhana (2.34-3.66) dan tahap tinggi (3.67-5.00). Dapatan kajian menunjukkan tahap pentadbiran dalam mempengaruhi pencapaian kokurikulum.....

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This research was aimed to measure the primary science teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs by using “Primary Science Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs Scale”. Causal comparative was used as the research design of this study. The questions of this instrument were adapted from three different instruments and modified for the purpose of this study. Exploratory factor analysis was used to extract the components of the subscales, namely “Pedagogical Knowledge”, “Content Knowledge”, “Teachers’ Effort” and “Student Engagement”. The study examined the scores of teachers’ self-efficacy by gender, major, years of teaching experience and education qualifications. The weblink of online survey was sent out by email to schools. The sample consisted of 144 primary science teachers in Batang Padang, Perak. T-test and ANOVA were used to compare the mean differences of different groups. There was a statistically significant difference between male teachers (M=4.08, SD=0.42) and fem.....

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The connectivity between work skills or work ethics and life skills is an important factor in fulfilling the ‘satisfaction gap’ as well as having a major impact on the success of internships of diploma students undergoing industrial trainings. This paper will highlight the definition of internships, the purpose and importance of work ethics and life skills and its bridge between them that creates one connection between students’ academic majors and future careers. In many cases, it is through internships where attributes are enhanced, interests are developed, and talents are identified experientially. The uniqueness of internship serves different purposes to different students which ultimately provides a high impact learning experience and practice for students of Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI)...

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The objective of this research is to investigate motivation in learning Mandarin as a foreign language among secondary student in international school. Both quantitative and qualitative method have been employed in this study. Survey questionnaire and interview have been used as the research instruments to collect data. The sample of the study collected were the 212 secondary students from year seven to eleven who are currently learning Mandarin as a foreign language in international school for quantitative study whereas 15 secondary students were selected among the 212 secondary students for qualitative study. Quantitative findings reveal that Ideal L2 self is the key motivator for the secondary students to put in effort in learning Mandarin with a high correlation coefficient(r) of .776, p< 0.001. The study also proved that there is a significant difference between male and female students in term of the score on motivational factors and the correlation coefficient between .....

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Perubahan pola pembelajaran pada masa ini secara besar-besaran di semua peringkat pendidikan akibat pandemik COVID-19. Kajian ini telah dijalankan bagi tujuan untuk mengenal pasti sama ada berkesan atau tidak terhadap pembelajaran inovatif secara atas talian dalam mahasiswa dan mahasiswi sem 7 bagi program Ijazah Sarjana Muda Pendidikan (Pendidikan Jasmani) Dengan Kepujian di Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Perak. Reka bentuk kajian ini adalah kuantitatif dan soal selidik diedarkan secara rawak melalui Google Form kepada sampel kajian yang dipilih berdasarkan Krejcie dan Morgan (1970) iaitu memerlukan sekurang-sekurang 52 sampel untuk menjawab daripada 59 populasi sampel. Nilai pekali kesahan bagi soal selidik ini ialah 1.00 dan nilai kebolehpercayaan ialah 0.77. Soal selidik ini mengandungi 35 soalan yang terdiri daripada 5 bahagian yang berbeza. Microsoft Excel digunakan untuk mengumpul data dan menganalisis data bagi mengira min, sisihan piawai, frekuensi dan peratusa.....

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Collected in the Urban Spectre are six essays (five being Chinese translations and one originally written in Chinese) of the late Dr. Esther MK Cheung (1958-2015) on Hong Kong films and urban problems. The aim of this compilation and translation is to construct a framework for analyzing Hong Kong films – spectral analysis or spectral critique, so as to guide more Chinese readers to ponder on the following question: How and why has there been a lasting presence of a lingering crisis consciousness, “homeless/rootless” feelings, and illusion of ruins in Hong Kong films since the late 1970s? This paper is divided into two parts. The first part interprets the references of “phantasmagoria”, “spectre” or “uncanny” in the book, and examines how the author manipulates the “spectral critique”. Extending from this book, the second part ruminates on whether Hong Kong films continue to be phantasmagoria (the discussion in the book stops at the films in 2010), and whether we c.....

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Wang Fo Wen (1903 1972) w as a prominent educator in Malaysia’s education history, distinguishedin particular by an incredible career of some four decades in Malay(si)an Chinese education. Studying in the Southeast University in Nanking of China where he was trained as a bilingual educationist, Wang Fo Wen was imbued with the teaching principles of renowned American educator John Dewey and his Chinese student Tao Hsing chih; and upon graduation, Wang signed up for “overseas Chinese education” and was sent to British Malaya (then to Dutch Indonesia) to teach in Chinese high schools in the 1922s. This paper traces Wang Fo Wen’s life trajectory in Malay(si)a, by examining the three vastly different, if not contrasting, roles that he assumed in Malayan Chinese education at different st ages of her life, respectively as Chinese language high school teacher in the 1920s 30s, Chinese Schools Inspector in the 1930s 50s, and as principal of Foon Yew High School, the first independent Ch.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti pengaruh status sosioekonomi ibu bapa terhadap pencapaian akademik pelajar sekolah menengah luar bandar daerah Papar, Sabah. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan kaedah kajian tinjauan deskriptif. Instrumen soal selidik digunakan untuk mendapatkan maklumat yang diperlukan. Seramai 366 pelajar tingkatan 4 sekolah menengah luar bandar daerah Papar dipilih sebagai responden dengan menggunakan teknik pensampelan rawak berstrata dan pensampelan rawak mudah. Kajian ini melibatkan lima elemen pengaruh status sosioekonomi ibu bapa sebagai pemboleh ubah tak bersandar dan hanya melibatkan satu pemboleh ubah bersandar iaitu pencapaian akademik pelajar. Analisis deskriptif digunakan untuk menjelaskan latar belakang demografi sampel manakala analisis infrerensi regresi berganda digunakan untuk menunjukkan kekuatan pengaruh status sosioekonomi ibu bapa terhadap pencapaian akademik pelajar sekolah menengah luar bandar di daerah Pap.....

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