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Cai Yuanpeis cross-border experience in Nanyang and overseas Chinese educational context (In Chinese)

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Cai Yuanpei had conducted many overseas studies and investigations before and after the Revolution of 1911 and the May Fourth Movement. Despite many studies on his experience of studying in Europe and the States, the academic circles lacked attention to his experience of staying in Nanyang while he traveled between China and the West. In fact, Singapore and Penang of Nanyang were the main ports at the time, they were the essential waterway between the Asian continent and the western world. Cai Yuanpei passed through the region for a few times during his visitations to Europe and the States. This article traced back a number of transits and entries of Cai Yuanpei to Malaya and his footsteps including his schedule, activity, speech and his interactions with local Chinese people, and then analyzes the significance of his transit and activities from the perspective of overseas Chinese society. The article answers the questions such as how do Nanyang Chinese treated the visitations of this .....

Article Published 2020 1201 hits Available

Project based learning in teaching Mandarin as foreign language: theory to practice

Khor Teik Huat

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Project-based learning (PjBL) emerges as a model that meets the needs of both teachers and students in teaching and learning a foreign language effectively. PjBL in the field of Mandarin as Foreign Language (MFL) are still new. This article with the aims to discuss the definition and the benefits of PjBL. It is also deals with the steps for implementing the PjBL project in class. Finally, the suggestion of implementing PjBL activities in Mandarin class for beginners have been detailed. Keywords: Project-Based Learning, Project Steps, Mandarin As Foreign Language, Mandarin Class Project Activities, Beginners..

Article Published 2021 1379 hits Available

Gadget usage amongst preschool children and its effect on their psychosocial status

Khiu, Alexander Lucas Kwong Huat

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The two main purposes of the present study were to explore the gadget landscape in Malaysian households and to examine the relationship between gadget use and psychosocial status in pre-schoolers. The sample of the current study consists of 234 parent-child dyads of pre-schoolers aged five and six. Most parents in the study are Malays, married and living in urban regions (e.g. Kuala Lumpur, Sepang & Melaka Tengah). Next, most of the raters are mothers (74.4%). The raters were asked to complete the Gadget Use Questionnaire, to evaluate gadget usage such as duration of use, types of content when using media and types of gadget available, used and owned by pre-schooler, and the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), to measure psychosocial status of pre-schoolers such as Peer Relationship Issues, Emotional Problems, Conduct Problem, Hyperactivity and Prosocial Behaviour, in Bahasa Malaysia. Descriptive analysis was used to describe the trends of media use while Ordinal.....

Thesis Published 2021 2409 hits Available

Problems and countermeasures in teaching and learning Chinese Characters in KSSR year one 1

Yap, Chin Huat

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Intelligence begins with learning to read. If one can recognize Chinese characters at an early age, he/she will be able to read at an e a rly age, and the door of wisdom will open earlier. KSSR states that the golden age of recognizing Chinese characters is at Year 1 and 2. The focus of teaching and learning at this stage is recognizing Chinese characters. However, many pupils lost the char a cters they have learned after a certain period of time. Inability to master a sufficient number of Chinese characters h as slowed down students' entry into the reading stage and hindered them from enjoying reading books. This article discusses the problems faced in teaching and learning Chinese characters in Chinese primary schools and suggests corresponding countermeasures , hoping to provide little contribution in teaching and learning Chinese characters in Malaysia...

Article Published 2022 1169 hits Available

Study on the influence of Chinese traditional culture on corporate environmental responsibility

Huat, Khor Teik

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In accordance with the theory of informal institutions, culture exerts a crucial influence on the enactment of corporate social responsibility. Based on the two core variables of Chinese traditional culture and corporate environmental responsibility, we designed a panel data model to investigate the impact of Chinese traditional culture on corporate environmental responsibility and its heterogeneity. The findings indicate the following: 1) Chinese traditional culture can promote the performance of corporate environmental responsibility. 2) Chinese traditional culture has a heterogeneous influence on the environmental responsibility of enterprises that depends on the ownership difference of enterprises; that is, the influence of traditional culture on the environmental responsibility of state-owned enterprises is stronger than that of non-state-owned enterprises. 3) Chinese traditional culture has a heterogeneous influence on the environmental responsibility of enterprises according to .....

Article Published 2023 611 hits Available

When music meets language

Ang, Thiah Huat

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Language is a human communication tool and semiotics system, used to convey meaning and express. Similarly, music has its own semiotic set, comparable to that of language, able to evoke specific emotions, sensations without text. Language and music are socially cohesive codes, delineating groups within society and culture, understood by those to whom it _belongs._ As language is a social cohesive, defining social groups can be achieved through different musical systems, for example, Malaysian and Western music. As language is dynamic, adjusting to contemporary conditions and technologies, music appears to be undergoing similar adaptation. Audio is compressed for headphone reproduction and MP3 and this reduction in the sonic is changing the aesthetic of what is considered _ideal_. We shall suggest that there is a similar reductive quality in the content of music that may be compared to the shorthand language of the SMS. Key words: Language; music; semiotics system...

Article Published 2012 138 hits Available

The “Going to the Underclass” Movement in Malayan Chinese Society and the Rise of Folk School During the May Fourth Period

Khor Teik Huat

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Purpose Previous research on the role and impact of the “May Fourth Movement” in Malaya has often portrayed the movement as historically inevitable, but it often lacks direct historical factual support and dialectical associations, particularly in studies related to education and intellectual trends. This article focuses on “folk school” to explore how early Chinese Intellectual dissemination “going to the underclass” within Malayan Chinese society, which was an immigrant society primarily composed of illiterate people and lacking cultural institutions and intellectual classes. It seeks to answer the question of how “enlightenment” was “possible” in early Malayan Chinese society. Main Theories or Conceptual Frameworks Not applicable. Research Design/Methods/Participants This article is a qualitative study that uses early major Chinese newspapers in Malaya, such as The Sin Kuo Min and Lat Pau, as social texts, supplemented by school special publications as supporting.....

Article Published 2024 318 hits Available

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