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The study attempted to explain the pragmatic competence and the role of teaching pragmatic through using activities-based teaching function of language in EFL context. The study was presented by a public curriculum lead that prioritizes the necessity for English teachers focused on activities when they teach pragmatic aspects in an academic communications. The study aimed to clarify the vital role of activity-based teaching pragmatic on improving students' communicative function of language among Iraqi EFL learners. Besides, most English learners fail to present pragmatic ability on how to use request, apology by relating expressions to their meanings, knowing the intention of language users. There is growing of studies on the value of activities-based teaching language on increasing students’ pragmatic and function of language in EFL teaching  ..

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The study explained English learners' pragmatics development, learners' pragmatic competence inselected speech act, and usage of request as a one of speech acts that it used in gaining pragmatic ability. The studywas offered by a public curriculum lead that prioritizes the necessity for English students to develop their ability to use request effectively in cultural communication. The study aimed to explain differences in the usage of request among Iraqi male and female undergraduate EFL students. Furthermore, most English students fail to present pragmatic ability on how to use request by relating utterances to their meanings, knowing the intention of language users, and how requests are employed in specific locations. There is growing material of researches on pragmatic ability and differences in the usage of request among male and female students for EFL schoolroom teaching. However, researchers have pointed to focus on the traditional methods rather than how English students requir.....

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This  research  aims  to  examine  the  effectiveness  of  learning  the  concept  of  Object Oriented  Programming  (OOP)  through  role-playing  games  among  undergraduate students. A  framework on game-based learning (GBL) has been developed and a variety of platform games  (computer-based and mobile) titled Odyssey of Phoenix have been developed. The development of this  game  has combined the concept of constructive alignment and design of game elements with  appropriate OOP learning content. A total of nine experts were involved in the validity of game  design and validity of learning content with each having more than five years of experience. A  pilot test was conducted involving  20  students.   This  study  uses  a  quantitative  approach   through  quasi- experimental pre-test and post-test involving a randomly selected sample of 214  first year  undergraduate  students  in  computer  science  from  three  institutions.....

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In early and mid twentieth century, the changes of political situations, turmoil, hardships and natural disasters in China forced mass migration of Chinese hailed from China to Penang. Many of the migrants from China took refuge in Penang. Dedicated to their own origins of Chinese culture, education and ar t, they preserved the original sources of Chinese heritage and left behind their invaluable treasures which in one way or another shaped and formed the culture of Penang Chinese community today. Among those Chinese migrants to Penang, some of them were sch olars, calligraphers and artists originally from China. Tsue Ta Tee, a prominent Chinese Calligrapher, found his feet and settled down in Penang from 1903 to 1974. This research is an attempt to explore his life experiences (e.g., job, name experiences in mainland China), migration journey to Penang, and social interactions in Penang. All these are the fundamental aspects which lay the foundation of the future research to further a.....

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Visualization strategies are strategies that utilize images to help strengthen the students' understanding of reading comprehension. Through this strategy, students will describe the meaning obtained from the text in the form of rough sketches. The use of these images allows the students to be more focused on the continuation of reading because they understand the meaning more clearly. This study aims to investigate the impact of information visualization techniques on reading comprehension performance among elementary school students in Malaysia. The study adapted quantitative study through a quasi-experimental design and survey questionnaire. 300 students from Standard 4 to Standard 6 (10 to 12 years old) were chosen as the participants of the study. They were divided into Experimental Group (n=150) and the control Group (n=150). The experiment has been done in 2 classes per week, in a total of 6 weeks. The participants in the Experimental Group were taught reading comprehension usin.....

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Due to the increasing stormwater runoff in urban areas, stormwater infrastructure requires modification to address the flash flooding issues. Occurrences of floodwater overflowing the urban drain have urged drainage engineers to re-look its design. Conventionally, the urban drain is designed to free flow following the provided drain slope. This paper is challenging the old design by introducing orifices into the drain. The lesser-known stormwater characteristics restricted by orifices in open drains were investigated. In this case, twenty-four units of terrace houses were selected as the study area with special attention to the 170 m front drain with a dimension of 0.5 m x 0.55 m. The drain was inserted with one to three orifices of 0.45 m diameter separating the drain into one or more compartments. Three scenarios were formulated, namely S1 with one orifice plate at 170 m, S2 with two orifice plates at 86 and 170 m, and S3 with three orifices at 50, 110 and 170 m, from the starting po.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis elemen-elemen integrasi nasional dalam kontrak sosial yang berlaku dalam kalangan kumpulan kaum yang ada di Malaysia. Kajian ini menginterpretasikan fenomena kumpulan-kumpulan kaum yang direkodkan di dalam bentuk karya seni visual berkenaan hubungan integrasi nasional menerusi elemen sejarah hubungan kaum, era konflik, era stabil tapi tegang dan era kesepaduan sosial hubungan kaum. Artis rujukan yang terlibat dalam kajian ini adalah Mohd Redza bin Piyadasa, Ibrahim bin Hussein, Lee Kian Seng, Noor Azizan Rahman bin Paiman, Symran Gill, Sulaiman bin Esa, Zulkifli bin Yusoff, Jasper John, Robert Rauschenberg, Maya Ying Lin dan Felix W. Weldon. Penerokaan idea dalam aspek yang terdapat di dalam karya-karya pelukis yang dirujuk melibatkan peristiwa dan isu, identiti, piagam perlembagaan dan kenegaraan, serta memorial dan peristiwa sejarah. Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah penyelidikan studio seni halus menerusi pendekatan Refleksi Kritikal K.....

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