Media framing makes an issue salient. This study attempts to determine the frequency of episodic ... more Media framing makes an issue salient. This study attempts to determine the frequency of episodic and thematic frames in news about the Unified Examination Certificate issue and identify the framing dimensions and valence used. Textual analysis of the content and headlines was performed on 100 news articles from newspapers of two languages. Results indicate that all the articles were framed episodically, with the “attribution of responsibility” dimension used most frequently, followed by the “human interest” and “conflict” dimensions. Chinese articles tended to use neutral valance, whereas Malay articles mostly used negative valence. These findings provide insights into ethnic politically-influenced and reader-oriented presentations of an issue by different newspapers. Future studies may focus on newspapers using the same language and investigate the framing effects by mainstream and alternative media.
memenuhi keperluan dan permintaan mahasiswa Melayu di institusi pengajian tinggi. Tambahan pula, ... more memenuhi keperluan dan permintaan mahasiswa Melayu di institusi pengajian tinggi. Tambahan pula, perkataan Bahasa Melayu banyak menggunakan imbuhan untuk memperkayakan perbendaharaan katanya, kamus-kamus yang ada di pasaran sekadar memberi penerangan maksud kata asal tetapi tidak memberi penerangan maksud selanjutnya setelah kata asal Bahasa Melayu ditambah dengan imbuhan. Kekurangan ini telah menyebabkan para pelajar menghadapi banyak kesusahan Objektif penyelidikan ini adalah 1. mengkaji keberkesanan dan kelemahan penggunanan dalam pembelajaran bahasa ketiga dikalangan pelajar Melayu . 2. menyediakan laporan supaya bakal penulis kamus boleh menggunakannyai sebagai panduan dalam penerbitan kamus B. Melayu—Mandarin--Inggeris pada masa depan. Suatu penyelidikan deskriptif telah dijalankan di kalangan 500 oranng pelajar Melayu di UiTM Pulau Pinang. Data penyelidikan dikumpul melalui borang soal selidik. Responden kajian ini adalah 128 orang pelajar. Perisian SPSS digunakan untuk menga...
When Malay students do translation exercises, the common mistake is students translate the senten... more When Malay students do translation exercises, the common mistake is students translate the sentences directly, a result of their mother tongue negative transfer. The grammatical structure of Malay language is different from that of Chinese language. If Malay sentences are literally translated into Chinese, readers may find the sentences difficult to comprehend, Due to the mother tongue interference, Malay students will unconsciously employ the Malay grammar when doing translation exercises. The translated Chinese sentence will make the readers find them weird to read. There are quite a few things to be aware of when doing translation so that these translated sentences would not pose much problem if the translation procedure is strictly followed. When translating Malay words or a phrases into Chinese, most of the word and phrase structures remain unchanged and can be translated directly, such as verb and nouns, noun and verbs, vecb and adjectives, adjective and verbs, adjective and a...
When Malay students do translation exercises, the common mistake is students translate the senten... more When Malay students do translation exercises, the common mistake is students translate the sentences directly, a result of their mother tongue negative transfer. The grammatical structure of Malay language is different from that of Chinese language. If Malay sentences are literally translated into Chinese, readers may find the sentences difficult to comprehend, Due to the mother tongue interference, Malay students will unconsciously employ the Malay grammar when doing translation exercises. The translated Chinese sentence will make the readers find them weird to read. There are quite a few things to be aware of when doing translation so that these translated sentences would not pose much problem if the translation procedure is strictly followed. When translating Malay words or a phrases into Chinese, most of the word and phrase structures remain unchanged and can be translated directly, such as verb and nouns, noun and verbs, vecb and adjectives, adjective and verbs, adjective and a...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS, 2021
Listening skills are important skills that need to be mastered by foreign language learners. List... more Listening skills are important skills that need to be mastered by foreign language learners. Listening skills have, however, often been neglected in the teaching and learning process. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of using WhatsApp messenger as an instructional tool in enhancing listening skills. This experimental research employs the two-group pre-test post-test design. Two groups of 30 students who enrolled in the Introductory Mandarin course in one of the public universities in Malaysia took part in the study. During the study, the experimental group of 30 students underwent listening drills and exercises using WhatsApp messenger as the treatment, while another 30 students in the control group were taught by another lecturer using the conventional method of teaching listening skills. Listening test scores of before and after the treatment were compared and analyzed using Independent Samples t-Test to identify the significant level of the difference between the ...
In this study, the purpose of conducting Mandarin classes at Malaysian public universities is dis... more In this study, the purpose of conducting Mandarin classes at Malaysian public universities is discussed. This is done from the perspective of the university. In this qualitative study, applied literature review and expert interviews were employed to report the development of Mandarin teaching in all the Malaysian public universities. Interviewees and respondents of this study were heads of the respective Chinese department/unit, Mandarin lecturers or language teachers, and some part-time teachers of the public universities. Some part-time teachers were selected because a few of the public universities have no permanent Mandarin teachers or lecturers. The respondents of this study were firstly given the interview questions via e-mail. This is followed by an appointment to carry out a phone interview with each respondent. After a transcription of each phone interview was completed, a copy of the transcription was given to the respective respondent to verify. Each respondent was given ...
Kajian ini bertujuan untuk melihat masalah pembelajaran urutan kata dalam ayat bahasa Mandarin da... more Kajian ini bertujuan untuk melihat masalah pembelajaran urutan kata dalam ayat bahasa Mandarin dalam kalangan pelajar bukan penutur asli, factor faktor yang menyebabkannya dan strategi-strategi pengajaran yang boleh diperkenalkan untuk menangani masalah yang dihadapi oleh pelajar Melayu di UiTM. Seramai 90 orang pelajar bukan penutur asli yang mengikuti bahasa Mandarin di UiTM dipilih sebagai sampel. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa pelajar sering melakukan kesilapan dalam tatabahasa bahasa Mandarin, antaranya salah kerana dipengaruhi oleh bahasa ibunda, salah kerana menentang susunan logikal, kronologikal atau masa, salah kerana menentang susunan dari besar ke kecil, salah kerana cuai atau keliru maksud dan sebagainya. Dapatan kajian juga menunjukkan bahawa gangguan bahasa ibunda merupakan faktor utama yang menyebabkan pelajar banyak melakukan kesilapan dalam tatabahasa bahasa Mandarin, diikuti dengan kurangnya latihan tatabahasa, pensyarah tidak cukup masa dalam kelas untuk membe...
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is one of the focal points of learner selfdirectedness in any given... more Self-regulated learning (SRL) is one of the focal points of learner selfdirectedness in any given learning situation, especially in higher learning institutions where learning autonomy is greatly emphasized. Within SRL, it has been discovered that the metacognitive self-regulatory strategies have only been moderately used by students of higher learning institutions. Therefore, this survey was carried out to gauge the level of metacognitive self-regulatory learning strategies employed by the degree students from the different faculties of Universiti Teknologi MARA Pulau Pinang (UiTMPP). The metacognitive self-regulatory strategies subscale from the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) by Pintrich, Smith, Gracia and McKeachie (1991) was used for this purpose. It was found that no significant difference existed among the students from the different faculties for the subscale overall. However, some degree of significant difference was discovered for two of the individu...
The learning of foreign languages has always been a daunting task for both learners and educators... more The learning of foreign languages has always been a daunting task for both learners and educators. The existing learning tools do not cater for effective foreign language learning. FoLLetS courseware attempts to address this problem by incorporating audio, visual and text (via subtitles). In using FoLLetS, learners have autonomy in the learning process. In this study, 30 elementary learners of French, Mandarin and Japanese evaluated the courseware and the majority found it useful in enhancing their learning of foreign languages through film subtitling. They also provided comments on the strengths and weaknesses of the courseware.
In its effort to address the declining language proficiency among the undergraduates, the Academy... more In its effort to address the declining language proficiency among the undergraduates, the Academy of Language Studies at UiTM has decided to implement the Personal Listening Log – a variant of journal writing in which students record their responses to listening exercises. In the Personal Listening Log, which is done outside the formal language class, students need to respond, predict and/or reflect on the given listening texts. The use of the Personal Listening Log is believed to increase students’ knowledge, vocabulary and also their listening skills. The data is obtained via a survey questionnaire, which is administered to a group of 36 first-year students, as well as interviews with ten students. The findings are discussed in terms of a) the problems that students face in carrying out the activity; and b) the students’ responses to the activity. Based on students’ feedback that was obtained, the paper concludes with some recommendations for language instructors who are contempla...
In Malaysian local universities, Mandarin is offered as the third language course to students who... more In Malaysian local universities, Mandarin is offered as the third language course to students who are the non-native Mandarin speakers. Since Mandarin is distinctive with Its own grammatical and sentence patterns, Mandarin Instructors need to come up with the effective method to teach the non-native speakers who are rather weak In restructuring Mandarin sentences. Many non-native speakers of Mandarin are fall to restructure Mandarin sentences correctly at elementary level due to the limited contact hours, unsupportlve Mandarin learning environment, and the Influence of mother tongue. To reduce this learning predicament among these non-native speakers, this paper proposes the use of GAT method for restructuring Mandarin sentences. GAT, an acronym for Group-Arrange-Touch-up, Incorporates Word Sequence'Diagram (WSD) In the form of graphic Impressions, which can be used by non-native speakers In their quest of learning Mandarin. This method Is supported by the 'word sequence'...
MANU: Jurnal Pusat Penataran Ilmu dan Bahasa (PPIB), 2020
Walaupun bahasa Inggeris merupakan bahasa antarabangsa, tetapi bahasa-bahasa lain turut memainkan... more Walaupun bahasa Inggeris merupakan bahasa antarabangsa, tetapi bahasa-bahasa lain turut memainkan peranan dalam bidang dan hal tertentu. Senario global ini menjelaskan sebab perlunya bahasa asing dipelajari. Kajian ini membandingkan faktor-faktor dan trend pemilihan bahasa Cina dan bahasa Jepun sebagai kursus pelengkap oleh pelajar di Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). Seramai 100 orang responden mengambil bahagian dalam kajian yang menggabungkan kaedah kualitatif (temu bual) dan kuantitatif (soal selidik) ini. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa faktor intrinsik lebih berpengaruh untuk pelajar bahasa Jepun, sementara faktor ekstrinsik lebih menyerlah untuk pelajar bahasa Cina. Hasil kajian ini boleh menjadi rujukan para pengajar untuk tujuan penambahbaikan kursus dari segi kandungan dan penyampaian supaya seiring dengan kehendak terkini pelajar universiti. Even though English functions as an international language, other languages still play their role in certain fields and area...
Learning Chinese characters can be a daunting experience for the non-native learners. This quanti... more Learning Chinese characters can be a daunting experience for the non-native learners. This quantitative study aims to experiment the effectiveness of ‘Wild Association’ on learners’ ability to learn Chinese characters, and to determine whether these learners who use ‘Wild Association’ demonstrate higher achievement in character recognition and character writing compared to learners who study Chinese characters by drilling. Consisting of 98 learners from the elementary level of Mandarin proficiency course in UNIMAS, the learners used their own imagination to learn Chinese characters, and at the same time, relating their own experience in doing so. Learners’ performance was measured through the pre-test and post-test in the form of dictation and character-recognition worksheet. The results indicate that ‘Wild Association’ is effective in helping learners to recognise and write characters, and is especially more effective in helping learners to recognise characters. However, learners w...
Teaching elementary Mandarin to non-native speakers in UiTM is a demanding job. This is because t... more Teaching elementary Mandarin to non-native speakers in UiTM is a demanding job. This is because the students have no basics in Mandarin and lecturers have a fairly short span of time to complete the syllabus in one semester. Besides, Malay and English are the two major mediums of instruction used in classrooms and students like to communicate using their own
Setiap pelajar yang mengikuti program ijazah sarjana muda di Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) diw... more Setiap pelajar yang mengikuti program ijazah sarjana muda di Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) diwajibkan mengambil satu kursus bahasa asing. Pelajar perlu lulus semua tahap dalam kursus bahasa asing yang diambil oleh mereka, iaitu dari tahap satu hingga tahap tiga untuk menamatkan pengajian. Bagi pelajar bumiputera yang mempelajari bahasa Mandarin tahap 3 di UiTM, mereka perlu mempelajari sebanyak 20 frasa tulisan Cina (50 perkataan). Pelajar-pelajar ini menghadapi kesukaran untuk mengecam tulisan-tulisan Cina kerana bagi mereka setiap tulisan Cina itu mempunyai bentuk yang hampir sama Oleh itu, penerangan tentang prinsip-prinsip pembentukan tulisan Cina Liu Shu kepada para pelajar penting untuk membantu mereka dalam mengecam pelbagai bentuk tulisan Cina, dan seterusnya memupuk minat mereka dalam mempelajari bahasa Mandarin. Kebanyakan pelajar didapati lebih berminat dengan tulisan-tulisan Cina yang dibentuk melalui prinsip-prinsip Xiangxing, Zhishi, dan Huiyi. Ini adalah kerana ketiga-tiga prinsip pembentukan tulisan tersebut mempunyai satu ciri yang sama, iaitu mempunyai elemen gambar. Dengan elemen gambar ini, pelajar dapat menghayati keunikan dan kecantikan tulisan Cina di samping mengenali adat resam dan budaya masyarakat Cina pada zaman tulisan itu dibentuk.
Self-regulated learning has remained as one of the focal points of learner self-directedness in a... more Self-regulated learning has remained as one of the focal points of learner self-directedness in any given learning situation. This is more so important in college or university level education where learning autonomy is greatly emphasized. Among these strategies, the metacognitive self-regulatory strategies have been the focus of numerous research. Generally, it has been found that the metacognitive self-regulatory strategies have only been moderately used by students of higher learning institutions. In view of this, this survey was carried out to gauge the level of metacognitive self-regulatory learning strategies employed by the degree students from the different faculties of UiTM Pulau Pinang. The metacognitive self-regulatory strategies subscale comprising 12 items from the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) by Pintrich, Smith, Gracia and McKeachie (1991) was used. From the results, it is evident that no significant difference existed among the students from ...
Mandarin is unique with its own grammatical and sentence patterns, it is the teachers role to of... more Mandarin is unique with its own grammatical and sentence patterns, it is the teachers role to offer guidelines that will help the students, esp. non-native speakers, to produce grammatically correct Mandarin sentences. This paper introduces the “word sequence” diagrams that specifically cater for the teaching and learning processes of Elementary Mandarin among non-native learners. The diagrams have been experimented with a number of samples through a period of time. When examined, these diagrams are found to agree with the “word sequence” approach or similar theories proposed by learned researches in the field, for example, Liu Hongmo, Shen Xiaolong and Han Chenqi. The article demonstrates in what manner the diagrams form graphic impressions upon the learners and make the grammar of Mandarin manageable. It also shows how the proposed diagrams can enable learners to acquire basic Mandarin sentence patterns without rigid training in the Chinese grammar. The proposed diagrams are beli...
Media framing makes an issue salient. This study attempts to determine the frequency of episodic ... more Media framing makes an issue salient. This study attempts to determine the frequency of episodic and thematic frames in news about the Unified Examination Certificate issue and identify the framing dimensions and valence used. Textual analysis of the content and headlines was performed on 100 news articles from newspapers of two languages. Results indicate that all the articles were framed episodically, with the “attribution of responsibility” dimension used most frequently, followed by the “human interest” and “conflict” dimensions. Chinese articles tended to use neutral valance, whereas Malay articles mostly used negative valence. These findings provide insights into ethnic politically-influenced and reader-oriented presentations of an issue by different newspapers. Future studies may focus on newspapers using the same language and investigate the framing effects by mainstream and alternative media.
memenuhi keperluan dan permintaan mahasiswa Melayu di institusi pengajian tinggi. Tambahan pula, ... more memenuhi keperluan dan permintaan mahasiswa Melayu di institusi pengajian tinggi. Tambahan pula, perkataan Bahasa Melayu banyak menggunakan imbuhan untuk memperkayakan perbendaharaan katanya, kamus-kamus yang ada di pasaran sekadar memberi penerangan maksud kata asal tetapi tidak memberi penerangan maksud selanjutnya setelah kata asal Bahasa Melayu ditambah dengan imbuhan. Kekurangan ini telah menyebabkan para pelajar menghadapi banyak kesusahan Objektif penyelidikan ini adalah 1. mengkaji keberkesanan dan kelemahan penggunanan dalam pembelajaran bahasa ketiga dikalangan pelajar Melayu . 2. menyediakan laporan supaya bakal penulis kamus boleh menggunakannyai sebagai panduan dalam penerbitan kamus B. Melayu—Mandarin--Inggeris pada masa depan. Suatu penyelidikan deskriptif telah dijalankan di kalangan 500 oranng pelajar Melayu di UiTM Pulau Pinang. Data penyelidikan dikumpul melalui borang soal selidik. Responden kajian ini adalah 128 orang pelajar. Perisian SPSS digunakan untuk menga...
When Malay students do translation exercises, the common mistake is students translate the senten... more When Malay students do translation exercises, the common mistake is students translate the sentences directly, a result of their mother tongue negative transfer. The grammatical structure of Malay language is different from that of Chinese language. If Malay sentences are literally translated into Chinese, readers may find the sentences difficult to comprehend, Due to the mother tongue interference, Malay students will unconsciously employ the Malay grammar when doing translation exercises. The translated Chinese sentence will make the readers find them weird to read. There are quite a few things to be aware of when doing translation so that these translated sentences would not pose much problem if the translation procedure is strictly followed. When translating Malay words or a phrases into Chinese, most of the word and phrase structures remain unchanged and can be translated directly, such as verb and nouns, noun and verbs, vecb and adjectives, adjective and verbs, adjective and a...
When Malay students do translation exercises, the common mistake is students translate the senten... more When Malay students do translation exercises, the common mistake is students translate the sentences directly, a result of their mother tongue negative transfer. The grammatical structure of Malay language is different from that of Chinese language. If Malay sentences are literally translated into Chinese, readers may find the sentences difficult to comprehend, Due to the mother tongue interference, Malay students will unconsciously employ the Malay grammar when doing translation exercises. The translated Chinese sentence will make the readers find them weird to read. There are quite a few things to be aware of when doing translation so that these translated sentences would not pose much problem if the translation procedure is strictly followed. When translating Malay words or a phrases into Chinese, most of the word and phrase structures remain unchanged and can be translated directly, such as verb and nouns, noun and verbs, vecb and adjectives, adjective and verbs, adjective and a...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS, 2021
Listening skills are important skills that need to be mastered by foreign language learners. List... more Listening skills are important skills that need to be mastered by foreign language learners. Listening skills have, however, often been neglected in the teaching and learning process. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of using WhatsApp messenger as an instructional tool in enhancing listening skills. This experimental research employs the two-group pre-test post-test design. Two groups of 30 students who enrolled in the Introductory Mandarin course in one of the public universities in Malaysia took part in the study. During the study, the experimental group of 30 students underwent listening drills and exercises using WhatsApp messenger as the treatment, while another 30 students in the control group were taught by another lecturer using the conventional method of teaching listening skills. Listening test scores of before and after the treatment were compared and analyzed using Independent Samples t-Test to identify the significant level of the difference between the ...
In this study, the purpose of conducting Mandarin classes at Malaysian public universities is dis... more In this study, the purpose of conducting Mandarin classes at Malaysian public universities is discussed. This is done from the perspective of the university. In this qualitative study, applied literature review and expert interviews were employed to report the development of Mandarin teaching in all the Malaysian public universities. Interviewees and respondents of this study were heads of the respective Chinese department/unit, Mandarin lecturers or language teachers, and some part-time teachers of the public universities. Some part-time teachers were selected because a few of the public universities have no permanent Mandarin teachers or lecturers. The respondents of this study were firstly given the interview questions via e-mail. This is followed by an appointment to carry out a phone interview with each respondent. After a transcription of each phone interview was completed, a copy of the transcription was given to the respective respondent to verify. Each respondent was given ...
Kajian ini bertujuan untuk melihat masalah pembelajaran urutan kata dalam ayat bahasa Mandarin da... more Kajian ini bertujuan untuk melihat masalah pembelajaran urutan kata dalam ayat bahasa Mandarin dalam kalangan pelajar bukan penutur asli, factor faktor yang menyebabkannya dan strategi-strategi pengajaran yang boleh diperkenalkan untuk menangani masalah yang dihadapi oleh pelajar Melayu di UiTM. Seramai 90 orang pelajar bukan penutur asli yang mengikuti bahasa Mandarin di UiTM dipilih sebagai sampel. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa pelajar sering melakukan kesilapan dalam tatabahasa bahasa Mandarin, antaranya salah kerana dipengaruhi oleh bahasa ibunda, salah kerana menentang susunan logikal, kronologikal atau masa, salah kerana menentang susunan dari besar ke kecil, salah kerana cuai atau keliru maksud dan sebagainya. Dapatan kajian juga menunjukkan bahawa gangguan bahasa ibunda merupakan faktor utama yang menyebabkan pelajar banyak melakukan kesilapan dalam tatabahasa bahasa Mandarin, diikuti dengan kurangnya latihan tatabahasa, pensyarah tidak cukup masa dalam kelas untuk membe...
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is one of the focal points of learner selfdirectedness in any given... more Self-regulated learning (SRL) is one of the focal points of learner selfdirectedness in any given learning situation, especially in higher learning institutions where learning autonomy is greatly emphasized. Within SRL, it has been discovered that the metacognitive self-regulatory strategies have only been moderately used by students of higher learning institutions. Therefore, this survey was carried out to gauge the level of metacognitive self-regulatory learning strategies employed by the degree students from the different faculties of Universiti Teknologi MARA Pulau Pinang (UiTMPP). The metacognitive self-regulatory strategies subscale from the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) by Pintrich, Smith, Gracia and McKeachie (1991) was used for this purpose. It was found that no significant difference existed among the students from the different faculties for the subscale overall. However, some degree of significant difference was discovered for two of the individu...
The learning of foreign languages has always been a daunting task for both learners and educators... more The learning of foreign languages has always been a daunting task for both learners and educators. The existing learning tools do not cater for effective foreign language learning. FoLLetS courseware attempts to address this problem by incorporating audio, visual and text (via subtitles). In using FoLLetS, learners have autonomy in the learning process. In this study, 30 elementary learners of French, Mandarin and Japanese evaluated the courseware and the majority found it useful in enhancing their learning of foreign languages through film subtitling. They also provided comments on the strengths and weaknesses of the courseware.
In its effort to address the declining language proficiency among the undergraduates, the Academy... more In its effort to address the declining language proficiency among the undergraduates, the Academy of Language Studies at UiTM has decided to implement the Personal Listening Log – a variant of journal writing in which students record their responses to listening exercises. In the Personal Listening Log, which is done outside the formal language class, students need to respond, predict and/or reflect on the given listening texts. The use of the Personal Listening Log is believed to increase students’ knowledge, vocabulary and also their listening skills. The data is obtained via a survey questionnaire, which is administered to a group of 36 first-year students, as well as interviews with ten students. The findings are discussed in terms of a) the problems that students face in carrying out the activity; and b) the students’ responses to the activity. Based on students’ feedback that was obtained, the paper concludes with some recommendations for language instructors who are contempla...
In Malaysian local universities, Mandarin is offered as the third language course to students who... more In Malaysian local universities, Mandarin is offered as the third language course to students who are the non-native Mandarin speakers. Since Mandarin is distinctive with Its own grammatical and sentence patterns, Mandarin Instructors need to come up with the effective method to teach the non-native speakers who are rather weak In restructuring Mandarin sentences. Many non-native speakers of Mandarin are fall to restructure Mandarin sentences correctly at elementary level due to the limited contact hours, unsupportlve Mandarin learning environment, and the Influence of mother tongue. To reduce this learning predicament among these non-native speakers, this paper proposes the use of GAT method for restructuring Mandarin sentences. GAT, an acronym for Group-Arrange-Touch-up, Incorporates Word Sequence'Diagram (WSD) In the form of graphic Impressions, which can be used by non-native speakers In their quest of learning Mandarin. This method Is supported by the 'word sequence'...
MANU: Jurnal Pusat Penataran Ilmu dan Bahasa (PPIB), 2020
Walaupun bahasa Inggeris merupakan bahasa antarabangsa, tetapi bahasa-bahasa lain turut memainkan... more Walaupun bahasa Inggeris merupakan bahasa antarabangsa, tetapi bahasa-bahasa lain turut memainkan peranan dalam bidang dan hal tertentu. Senario global ini menjelaskan sebab perlunya bahasa asing dipelajari. Kajian ini membandingkan faktor-faktor dan trend pemilihan bahasa Cina dan bahasa Jepun sebagai kursus pelengkap oleh pelajar di Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). Seramai 100 orang responden mengambil bahagian dalam kajian yang menggabungkan kaedah kualitatif (temu bual) dan kuantitatif (soal selidik) ini. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa faktor intrinsik lebih berpengaruh untuk pelajar bahasa Jepun, sementara faktor ekstrinsik lebih menyerlah untuk pelajar bahasa Cina. Hasil kajian ini boleh menjadi rujukan para pengajar untuk tujuan penambahbaikan kursus dari segi kandungan dan penyampaian supaya seiring dengan kehendak terkini pelajar universiti. Even though English functions as an international language, other languages still play their role in certain fields and area...
Learning Chinese characters can be a daunting experience for the non-native learners. This quanti... more Learning Chinese characters can be a daunting experience for the non-native learners. This quantitative study aims to experiment the effectiveness of ‘Wild Association’ on learners’ ability to learn Chinese characters, and to determine whether these learners who use ‘Wild Association’ demonstrate higher achievement in character recognition and character writing compared to learners who study Chinese characters by drilling. Consisting of 98 learners from the elementary level of Mandarin proficiency course in UNIMAS, the learners used their own imagination to learn Chinese characters, and at the same time, relating their own experience in doing so. Learners’ performance was measured through the pre-test and post-test in the form of dictation and character-recognition worksheet. The results indicate that ‘Wild Association’ is effective in helping learners to recognise and write characters, and is especially more effective in helping learners to recognise characters. However, learners w...
Teaching elementary Mandarin to non-native speakers in UiTM is a demanding job. This is because t... more Teaching elementary Mandarin to non-native speakers in UiTM is a demanding job. This is because the students have no basics in Mandarin and lecturers have a fairly short span of time to complete the syllabus in one semester. Besides, Malay and English are the two major mediums of instruction used in classrooms and students like to communicate using their own
Setiap pelajar yang mengikuti program ijazah sarjana muda di Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) diw... more Setiap pelajar yang mengikuti program ijazah sarjana muda di Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) diwajibkan mengambil satu kursus bahasa asing. Pelajar perlu lulus semua tahap dalam kursus bahasa asing yang diambil oleh mereka, iaitu dari tahap satu hingga tahap tiga untuk menamatkan pengajian. Bagi pelajar bumiputera yang mempelajari bahasa Mandarin tahap 3 di UiTM, mereka perlu mempelajari sebanyak 20 frasa tulisan Cina (50 perkataan). Pelajar-pelajar ini menghadapi kesukaran untuk mengecam tulisan-tulisan Cina kerana bagi mereka setiap tulisan Cina itu mempunyai bentuk yang hampir sama Oleh itu, penerangan tentang prinsip-prinsip pembentukan tulisan Cina Liu Shu kepada para pelajar penting untuk membantu mereka dalam mengecam pelbagai bentuk tulisan Cina, dan seterusnya memupuk minat mereka dalam mempelajari bahasa Mandarin. Kebanyakan pelajar didapati lebih berminat dengan tulisan-tulisan Cina yang dibentuk melalui prinsip-prinsip Xiangxing, Zhishi, dan Huiyi. Ini adalah kerana ketiga-tiga prinsip pembentukan tulisan tersebut mempunyai satu ciri yang sama, iaitu mempunyai elemen gambar. Dengan elemen gambar ini, pelajar dapat menghayati keunikan dan kecantikan tulisan Cina di samping mengenali adat resam dan budaya masyarakat Cina pada zaman tulisan itu dibentuk.
Self-regulated learning has remained as one of the focal points of learner self-directedness in a... more Self-regulated learning has remained as one of the focal points of learner self-directedness in any given learning situation. This is more so important in college or university level education where learning autonomy is greatly emphasized. Among these strategies, the metacognitive self-regulatory strategies have been the focus of numerous research. Generally, it has been found that the metacognitive self-regulatory strategies have only been moderately used by students of higher learning institutions. In view of this, this survey was carried out to gauge the level of metacognitive self-regulatory learning strategies employed by the degree students from the different faculties of UiTM Pulau Pinang. The metacognitive self-regulatory strategies subscale comprising 12 items from the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) by Pintrich, Smith, Gracia and McKeachie (1991) was used. From the results, it is evident that no significant difference existed among the students from ...
Mandarin is unique with its own grammatical and sentence patterns, it is the teachers role to of... more Mandarin is unique with its own grammatical and sentence patterns, it is the teachers role to offer guidelines that will help the students, esp. non-native speakers, to produce grammatically correct Mandarin sentences. This paper introduces the “word sequence” diagrams that specifically cater for the teaching and learning processes of Elementary Mandarin among non-native learners. The diagrams have been experimented with a number of samples through a period of time. When examined, these diagrams are found to agree with the “word sequence” approach or similar theories proposed by learned researches in the field, for example, Liu Hongmo, Shen Xiaolong and Han Chenqi. The article demonstrates in what manner the diagrams form graphic impressions upon the learners and make the grammar of Mandarin manageable. It also shows how the proposed diagrams can enable learners to acquire basic Mandarin sentence patterns without rigid training in the Chinese grammar. The proposed diagrams are beli...
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