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Enhancing communication through e-mail : implications for the teaching and learning ESL writing

Stapa Siti Hamin, Mohd Ariff Al-Bakri Intan Safinas,

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Studies done in the area of composition support that free writing activities helped to develop confidence and efficiency among LI and L2 students. Dialogue-joumal writing is one of the activities in free writing that can provide opportunity to explore and experiment the language. The emerging of microcomputer technology has given endless and remarkable enhancement in language teaching instruction. Studies done by Lee (1998) and Warshauer (1995) indicate the usefulness of e-mail in teaching English where teachers and students can communicate with each other^through formal and informal consultation. Apart from that, e-mail can be used in exchanging dialogue journals and writing conference. The aim of this paper is to look at the effectiveness of dialogue journal writing through e-mail in enhancing communication among the matriculation studnets at the National University of Malaysia. Pedagogical implications of the study on the teaching and learning of ESL writing will also be discussed...

Conference Item Published 2001 2881 hits Available

Affordances of Wikispaces for collaborative learning and knowledge management

Jageer Singh Amreet Kaur, Raja Harun Raja Nor Safinas, Yusuf Wan Fareed,

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A wiki, namely, Wikispaces is a component of Web 2.0 technology tools. It is utilised as a peer editing platform for students in correcting errors made by them in their essay writing. The purpose of this article is to find out how the affordances of Wikispaces encourage collaborative learning and knowledge management in correcting errors in L2 students‟ essays. The experience of using Wikispaces throughout the peer editing context and its affordances are described extensively based on three perspectives: pedagogical, social and technological. Data was obtained from online-writing records (students‟ essays), field notes, questionnaire, reflective research diary, and feedback form. The qualitative data are analysed thematically and then triangulated. In terms of pedagogical affordances, Wikispaces supports dual applications of pedagogical approaches (teaching and learning). In relation to social affordances, Wikispaces promotes a variety of interactions (peer-peer and students-teache.....

Article Published 2012 3704 hits Available

Technical instructions in English voices of technical lecturers

Sanmugam S.Thivviyah, Raja Harun Raja Nor Safinas,

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This descriptive study examined the perceptions of technical lecturers towards the teaching of technical modules in English at a polytechnic in Malaysia. A questionnaire consisting four main aspects of perceptions mainly readiness, attitudes, problems and training needs were used for the purpose of data collection. Data were collected from 75 technical lecturers through the questionnaires, which were then analyzed to get the value of frequency and percentage score meanwhile interview data were qualitatively analysed with initial descriptive codes being assigned to lecturers’ responses. This study will allow relevant authorities to identify the perceptions and training needs of the technical lecturers and to provide appropriate in-service training in order to facilitate these lecturers who are entering the new domain of teaching content subjects using English as the medium of intsruction. Keywords: English as the Medium of Instruction, Technical Lecturers, Readiness, Attitudes, Traini.....

Article Published 2013 1135 hits Available

Kesilapan penggunaan kata adjektif bahasa Sepanyol dalam penulisan karangan pelajar Melayu di universiti

Mohd Nor Mariyati, Mohd Ariff Albakri Intan Safinas,

Article Published 2017 1976 hits Available

The essential role of teaching pragmatic in the Iraqi EFL classroom

Intan Safinas Mohd Ariff Albakri

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This study described the necessity for teaching pragmatic in EFL classroom, research on pragmatics in EFL learning and teaching. The study was presented by a public curriculum lead that prioritizes the necessity for teaching students’ pragmatic to increase their ability to use language successfully in social and academic communications. Additionally, Many English teachers fail to offer pragmatic ability in classroom that is because the lack of understanding of teaching pragmatic. There is increasing material of studies on value of teaching pragmatic on increasing EFL students' communication, as well as usage of request. However, the scholars have pointed to concentrate on how English learners require new approach such as teaching pragmatic to develop the students' production of request in the EFL schoolroom. The new approaches of teaching pragmatic to these Iraqi EFL learners have been discussed in details of the current study ..

Article Published 2019 1380 hits Available

The importance of the request strategies in the Iraqi EFL classroom

Intan Safinas Mohd Ariff Albakri

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This paper explained English students’ pragmatics development, students’ pragmatics competence in chosen speech acts, request strategies that they used in gaining pragmatic ability. The paper was presented by a public syllabus lead that prioritizes the need for English learners to improve their ability to utilize request strategies successfully in academic and social communications. The study aimed to explain the significance of request strategies on developing EFL learners’ usage of the request in the classroom. Additionally, Many English learners fail to present pragmatic ability on how to understand request strategies by relating utterances to their meanings, knowing the intention of language users, and how request strategies are utilized in specific settings. There is growing material of researches on awareness-raising of the value of pragmatic competence and request strategies for EFL schoolroom teaching. However, researchers have pointed to concentrate on the traditional ap.....

Article Published 2019 1366 hits Available

The construction and reconstruction of ESL student teachers professional identity

Raja Nor Safinas Raja Harun

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This study explores the construction and reconstruction of ESL student teachers’ professional identity at a teacher education university in Malaysia. A number of 23 student teachers were required to upload a journal entry in the e-portfolio to reflect upon themselves as prospective teachers when they were doing a pedagogical course in semester 5. Upon completing their teaching practice in semester 7 and while doing seminar reflective as a course in their final semester, the student teachers were asked to revisit their journal entry on their identity and to compare and contrast if their views have changed or remained the same after their teaching practice experiences. A content analysis was used to study the transformation of identity through journal entries. The study reveals that the student teachers were more realistic and practical as opposed to being idealistic in forming their professional identities after the teaching practice. There were many situational factors which have aff.....

Article Published 2019 1286 hits Available

The effects of oral corrective feedback on the learning of comparative forms in ESL

Raja Nor Safinas Raja Harun

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The effectiveness of oral corrective feedback (CF) on learners’ interlanguage development has been the topic of much discussion in the second language acquisition (SLA). This study intends to investigate the effects of implicit and explicit oral corrective feedback on the learning of comparativeforms in English as a second language (ESL) in the Malaysian context. The learning of comparative forms entails the implicit grammar knowledge (IGK) / fluency and explicit grammar knowledge (EGK) / accuracy. The study employs a quasi-experimental research method using 3-groups pre-test and post-test design: recast group (implicit oral corrective feedback), metalinguistic feedback group (explicit oral corrective feedback), and control group (task-related feedback). It involved 80 B.Ed. Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) student teachers. Pe-tests and post-tests data were analysed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Recorded observations of classroom discourse and interviews we.....

Article Published 2019 1794 hits Available

The role of strategies on developing Iraqi learners usage of request in EFL classroom

Intan Safinas Mohd Ariff Albakri

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This study described English learners' pragmatics development, learners' pragmatics competence in the selected speech act of request as a one of the most impotence aspects of pragmatic, request strategies that they utilized in gaining pragmatic ability. The study was presented by a public curriculum lead that prioritizes the necessity for English students to develop their ability to utilize request strategies positively in academic and cultural communications. Moreover, Many English students fail to present pragmatic aspects on how to understand different strategies by relating utterances to their meanings, knowing the intention of language users, and how request strategies are utilized in specific locations. There is developing material of studies on awareness-raising of the value of pragmatic competence and request strategies for EFL schoolroom teaching. However, researchers have pointed to concentrate on the traditional methods rather than how English learners require or understand .....

Article Published 2019 1537 hits Available

Mentoring practise during practicum: the perspectives of Malaysian pre-service English language teachers

Intan Safinas Mohd Ariff Albakri

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This study investigates the issues in mentoring practise based on pre-service English language teachers? perspectives about their mentoring experience. This study involved 56 pre-service teachers who had completed their practicum. The study used a quantitative data collection method whereby a questionnaire survey was distributed to the research participants. The data from the questionnaire was then analysed by using SPSS to generate descriptive statistics for item analysis. The findings were discussed based on five mentoring factors which are personal attributes, system requirements, pedagogical knowledge, modelling, and feedback. The findings show that modelling and pedagogical knowledge received among the lowest mean scores indicating the moderate satisfactory level of mentoring experience received by the pre-service teachers. The data also shows considerable issues in mentoring quality in terms of pedagogical knowledge. Based on the findings, one of the most crucial issues to be add.....

Article Published 2021 1843 hits Available

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