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The aim of this study was to find out the teachers’ and students’ views on the use of humour in the ESL classroom. The study was conducted in 14 Secondary schools (7 urban, 7 rural) in the Larut, Matang and Selama District. 130 English teachers and 420 Form 4 students participated in this study. Two sets of survey questionnaires were used to collect data. The first set was given to the teachers and the other to the students. Nonetheless, items used for both the questionnaire were similar. Then the collected data was analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Windows 11.5 Version. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage and crosstabs were used to describe the data. The findings showed 95% of the English teachers and 97.6% of responded positively to the use of humour in the ESL classroom. Teachers and students agreed to15 out of 16 reasons for using humour whereby the percentage of agreement was above 80%. The reasons include the use of humour to p.....

Thesis Published 2007 1727 hits Available

Tema dan fungsi peribahasa masyarakat Kadazandusun

Raymond Raimi, Rowdella

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Masyarakat Kadazandusun sangat kaya dengan unsur dan nilai sastera yang mencakupi puisi, prosa tradisional, adat resam, kebudayaan dan banyak lagi. Oleh itu, kajian ini dijalankan untuk menganalisis tema dan fungsi peribahasa masyarakat Kadazandusun sebagai lambang cerminan budayanya. Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah analisis kandungan dengan mengaplikasikan Teori Budaya dan gagasan Za’ba. Penyelidikan ini menjelaskan secara terperinci jenis-jenis peribahasa, tema dan fungsi peribahasa serta menghuraikan hubungan peribahasa dengan budaya. Justeru, usaha penyelidikan peribahasa sebagai sebahagian khazanah budaya masyarakat Kadazandusun dapat membentuk jati diri mahupun didikan sebagai moraliti masyarakat. Peribahasa turut mengajar nilai hidup bermasyarakat dan membentuk masyarakat yang beradab sopan serta sebagai alat didaktik untuk memperluas pengetahuan bahasa. Oleh itu, hasil daripada kajian ini mendapati bahawa peribahasa dapat dibahagi kepada empat jenis iaitu simpulan bahasa, perum.....

Thesis Published 2017 1895 hits Available

Rural micro-financing and food insecurity in Nigeria

Adegboyega, Raymond

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Background: Significantly, micro and small-scale farmers have contributed to the manufacturing output, employment and exports of Nigeria but in the area of food security they are lacking. The growing hunger in the land, worsened by the vanishing purchasing power of most Nigerians especially in the rural areas is a threat no serious government can afford to treat with indifference. However, access to timely and reliable financing at competitive rates, remains a key bottleneck in the growth of this sector for effective food security. From the foregoing, this study examined the impact of rural micro financing on food insecurity in Nigeria. Materia3s and Methods: The study was carried out in Oyo state through survey design on a sample of 164 respondents drawn from six (6) villages and the data collected though the questionnaire and interview were used for descriptive analysis with logit and tobit regression methods of analysis. Results: The results of the survey showed that lack of credi.....

Article Published 2021 839 hits Available

Poverty and non-inclusive growth in Nigeria

Adegboyega, Raymond. R.

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The paper examines the impact of poverty on non-inclusive growth using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag regression analysis on data collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria and the World Bank database from 1981 to 2020. The obtained result indicates that the initial economic growth level does not result in poverty reduction, while a positive change in economic growth results in poverty reduction. The paper concluded that inclusive economic growth is significant for poverty reduction when it increases employment and improves opportunities for productive activities among the poor. The article recommended measures, such as stable macroeconomic policies, huge investment in agriculture, infrastructural development, and good governance to sustain the inclusive economic growth rate and reduce poverty in Nigeria. Keywords: Non-inclusive growth; Poverty; Trickle-down effect; ARDL..

Article Published 2023 592 hits Available

Financial inclusion and rural development in Nigeria

Rahaj, Adegboyega Raymond

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The failure of the formal banking sector to provide financial services in rural areas in the supply of credit to rural communities to engage in economic activities that may promote rural development is recurring on the development agenda as a persistent issue. In line with the above, it becomes necessary to carry out a study on the impact of financial inclusion on rural development in Nigeria. The study employed Johansen cointegration, Error Correction Model (ECM), and Granger causality test methods of analyses on data collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria and World Bank database from 1981 to 2022 to ascertain both the long and short-run relationships among the variables. The result revealed that both the short and long-run relationships confirmed the significant impact of financial inclusion on rural development in Nigeria. The ECM value of -0.45 is statistically significant and indicates a satisfactory speed of adjustment, indicating that 45 percent of the errors are corrected i.....

Article Published 2024 455 hits Available

Hubungan etnik di Sabah: satu kajian terhadap cerpen-cerpen terpilih penulis Sabah

Asmiaty Amat

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Masyarakat peribumi di Sabah dikategorikan kepada Dusunkadazan, Bajau, Murut dan lain-lain serta ‘kelompok bumiputera lain’ seperti Jawa, Bugis dan Suluk, dan juga apa yang dinamakan ‘etnik-etnik lain’. Kepelbagaian etnik yang cukup rencam ini tidak sama dengan yang wujud di Semenanjung Malaysia yang hanya ditandai dengan tiga kaum yang besar, iaitu Melayu, Cina dan India. Oleh hal yang demikian, hubungan antara kaum atau etnik di Sabah bersifat mikro, iaitu antara etnik dan juga intra-etnik, iaitu hubungan antara etnik peribumi/bumiputera Sabah dengan orang Melayu di Sabah atau dari Semenanjung, Cina, atau orang Eropah. Hubungan antara etnik di Sabah dikatakan pelbagai pihak sebagai harmoni, namun persepsi dan sangsi sosial antara etnik-etnik tersebut tetap wujud walaupun dalam bentuk yang tidak serupa seperti di Semenanjung Malaysia. Kajian tekstual tematik menggunakan sosiologi sastera ini meneliti cerpen-cerpen yang terbit dalam majalah WADAH sejak tahun 1980-an hingga 2017.....

Article Published 2021 1039 hits Available

Pianists’ interpretive insights: exploring hunt, military and pastoral motifs through Monelle’s topic theory

Ding, Jin

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Topic theory in musicology examines how musical elements and structures convey emotions or topics in music. Despite its potential to provide a framework for understanding musical expression, topic theory has rarely been applied to piano pedagogy. This study aimed to explore participants’ perceptions of Raymond Monelle’s topic theory, specifically the hunt, military, and pastoral topics, in piano interpretation and teaching. Participants included six music lecturers from Chinese universities and nine university music students from Bulgaria, China, France, Germany, and the United States. Data was collected through a listening survey and semi-structured interviews and analysed using thematic analysis. The listening survey used excerpts from Dussek’s La Chasse, C.146, Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in A Major, Op. 101, Second Movement, and Liszt’s Années de Pèlerinage, Première année - Suisse, No. 3, Pastorale. The results showed that more than half of the participants matched the .....

Article Published 2024 433 hits Available

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