International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
Critical thinking skills play a vital role in making sound decisions, developing creative and inn... more Critical thinking skills play a vital role in making sound decisions, developing creative and innovative thinking, and producing graduates and members of society who can contribute effectively to the country's development. Hence, teachers should develop these skills among their students as they are crucial in producing graduates capable of solving problems and proposing innovative solutions to problems in their lives and society. This paper describes the results of a study aimed at ascertaining how teachers from six Malaysian secondary schools felt about their knowledge and ability in teaching and developing critical thinking skills in the literature classroom. The paper concludes with the implications of the findings in developing students' critical thinking ability.
International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE)
Quality improvement and accreditation system (QIAS) instrument was developed to determine the qua... more Quality improvement and accreditation system (QIAS) instrument was developed to determine the quality management practices level in childcare centers in Malaysia. This study was conducted in Kedah, Penang, and Kelantan to intricate the reliability and validity of the instrument. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and item reliability analysis have been used to measure the level of reliability and authenticity of the questionnaires. Further, inter-rater reliability (IRR) test was used to obtain expert confirmation of the reliability, validity and credibility of the instrument. All the seven constructs possessed high reliability index value between 0.87–0.92. Similarly, EFA analysis showed that there are seven dimensions exist in the QIAS instrument with factor loading ranged from 0.64–0.88. The findings also showed that the variance explained in the data is 64.46% with Eigenvalue more than 1. These results reflecting that all the item are accepted with a high verification. In addition...
This study aimed to find out second language learners ' perceptions on the use of blogs in t... more This study aimed to find out second language learners ' perceptions on the use of blogs in their learning process. Participants were 20 secondary school students from a suburban school in Kelantan, Malaysia. The students read articles, discussed in their respective groups and posted their comments in their group blogs in two kinds of learning environment; being supervised face-to-face and virtually. A survey and also oral interview were administered to elicit participants ' perceptions on the use of blogs. The results showed that although the incorporation of blogs in ESL learning were perceived positively among the learners, teachers need to be aware of several factors affect the effectiveness of using this technology in their teaching such as students ’ gender, personality and learning preferences. This paper also provides some pedagogical implications in the use of blogs for ESL learning.
Academicians are expected to publish research articles, journal publications and book chapters as... more Academicians are expected to publish research articles, journal publications and book chapters as part of their job. Some of the factors which drive the demand for such composition are achieving research publication key performance indicator set by universities, meeting aims to improve university ranking and fulfilling the expectation of research fund providers. While key performance indicators and research grant funds may spur research publications among academicians in the public universities, the practices among the academicians in the private universities are not the same. The differences in funding, policies and structure encourage the academicians in private universities to be more focused on teaching compared to research publication. Public universities are directed to produce a bigger number of researches hence are allocated with more funds; as such, it defines the different research role and the research practices between the two groups. While the different practices especially on the numbers of publication have been reported, the differences in the writing piece itself are rarely given the central focus. Details on how the private universities academicians write, or if there is of any difference from the other group are yet to be accounted for. Such description on the writing practice is needed as to give training, awareness and suggestions on research writing among the writers, language instructors and post graduate supervisors in the private universities. This research looks at the textual analysis of forty research article introductions. The results show that the writers from private university groups are more reluctant to give the justification for their research, less inclined to indicate the research gap and prefer to delay the presentation of their research work towards the later sections compared to those in the public university group.
Citation index for publication is one of the sought-after criteria for university ranking and it ... more Citation index for publication is one of the sought-after criteria for university ranking and it contributes to significant merits in an academician’s performance evaluation.Citation indices are systematically generated to indicate the number of times a paper is cited by other writers.As such, it is deemed to be more neutral and unprejudiced in determining the value of the research articles. In view of the importance of citation index, this study compares the strategies used in presenting research work in the introductory sections of highly cited research articles and those that have never been cited.In order to be cited, the introduction section of the research article must be able to capture the interest of readers, which includes editors, reviewers, and the research community.Otherwise, readers may choose to read or cite other articles. Given the importance and complexity of an article, the introduction section is deemed to be the most challenging section to write by many scienti...
Situated in the first stage of Lewin’s Change Management Model (Lewin, 1947), this study examined... more Situated in the first stage of Lewin’s Change Management Model (Lewin, 1947), this study examined the strategic communication plan needed to enable Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) to embrace learner diversity via diversity engagement. Participants were 56 academics from 14 public and two private universities in Malaysia who attended the Learner Diversity training module at the Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT) between the periods from 2014 to 2015. During the training sessions, participants were asked to diagnose the existing communication strategies of their respective universities that concerned learner diversity, and to suggest ways to fulfill the mission of driving diversity in their respective universities. Each participant wrote three series of reflective writings and these created a total database of 168 reflective notes. The data were analyzed using the six phases of thematic analysis proposed by Braun and Clarke (2006). The findings have identified three ma...
Issues of universities students harnessing and capitalizing the usage of Facebook for their own l... more Issues of universities students harnessing and capitalizing the usage of Facebook for their own learning capabilities and effective thinking is always the focus of education scholars, in assessing the quality class assignments and projects produced by them. Therefore, Facebook is now becoming unbearable influence since the internet activation in the past few years, almost totally interconnected the information sharing and needs among those students. In this action research, the researchers explore the influence and the active usage of Facebook whether this social media networking is confirmed challenging, enhancing and harnessing the learning capabilities and effective thinking among the university students. Thus they could produce quality class assignments and projects under the supervision of their lecturer concerned.
Writing research article to a peer reviewed publication is a complex process and involves dauntin... more Writing research article to a peer reviewed publication is a complex process and involves daunting communication with the referees, co-authors and editors. Publication writing is more challenging than the usual communicative expression yet; prolific writers often pass through the processes without too much difficulty. Prolific writers draw on many writing strategies and one of the strategies is by highlighting the research gap. Most of the time, the research gaps highlighted are those related to the intended research niche and the intended study. While the strategy has been used and taught in many research writing instances, the strategy has been reported to be unpopular amongst the non-native English research writers. Although many non-native English writers are aware of the importance of the research gap, not much is known on how this strategy is being practiced. In view of the underutilization of this strategy and limited studies on the strategy in non-native context, this paper investigates the use of this strategy in 150 research articles introductions in Computer Science disciplines written by academicians in Malaysian Universities. The finding of this study confirmed that indicating research gap" is underutilized by the research articles written in the corpus. In addition, this paper also described four various ways on how this strategy is commonly used by the non-native writers. The confirmation and authentic examples may be useful in the teaching and learning of research article writing.
CD-ROM affordances are explored in this article through participation in classroom interaction. C... more CD-ROM affordances are explored in this article through participation in classroom interaction. CD-ROMs for shared reading of animated stories and language work were introduced to all Malaysian primary schools in 2003 for the Year 1 English Literacy Hour. ...
International Academic Symposium of Social Science 2022
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
Arsaythamby Veloo School of Education and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia Malaysia AB... more Arsaythamby Veloo School of Education and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia Malaysia ABSTRACT This study attempts to investigate whether MUET results can be used as a predictor of accounting and science stream students’ overall academic performance of matriculation program. This prediction will prove further whether MUET result is valid to be used as a measurement for placement in public universities. Data were analysed at three stages using SPSS version 22.0. Firstly, MUET test scores were explained descriptively for the minimum and maximum scores. Then, to identify the relationship, overall MUET scores and its individual components’ scores were correlated with students’ _Cumulative Grade_ Point_ Average (CGPA). Then, multiple regression analysis was carried out to investigate whether MUET overall scores and its components can be used to predict students’ academic achievements. The results of_ multiple_ regression analysis show that, overall MUET score and reading compone...
This action research investigated the use of games to boost ESL rural primary pupils’ motivation ... more This action research investigated the use of games to boost ESL rural primary pupils’ motivation to learn English vocabulary. 18 Year 6 pupils from a rural school in Gua Musang Kelantan were selected by using convenient sampling. Multiple methods such as pre–test, post–test, observation, and interviews with teachers and pupils were used for data collection. This paper highlighted pupils’ voices of the effectiveness of vocabulary learning as the result of the pre and posttest showed a significant difference in which pupils have acquired the new words effectively and there was an improvement after having a game-based lesson. The findings indicated that the pupils showed significant improvement in their vocabulary scores after using games. Students reported that learning vocabulary by using games was fun and interesting, as it increased their motivation to learn the English language, helped them to memorise the vocabulary items faster, and increased their interaction in class. Furtherm...
Statistical literacy among society is crucial in facing era of globalization and competitive mark... more Statistical literacy among society is crucial in facing era of globalization and competitive market. Hence, statistic subject becoming a core subject thought at most of the university program. However, the name of the course is varies according to needs of the program curriculum. Statistic is not an easy subject and not attractive to students. Therefore, through action research approach this study attempt to introduce computer knowledge that related to statistic through training may enhance students’ learning. Undergraduate students of course Statistic for Decision Making are involved which is stood at 57 students. As mentioned in previous literature computer competency will enhance students learning in statistic. However it was not conducted in the form of action research. Therefore, the training was conducted which is tailored to the needs of the course contents. In order to assess the students’ understanding two stages of survey was conducted before and after the training session...
Saratha K. Krishnan (Corresponding Author) Perlis Matriculation College Malaysia Aizan Yaacob Sch... more Saratha K. Krishnan (Corresponding Author) Perlis Matriculation College Malaysia Aizan Yaacob School of Education and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia Malaysia Arsaythamby Veloo School of Education and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia Malaysia ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of metacognitive strategy training on matriculation ESL students‟ metacognitive awareness and their listening competency. 31 ESL matriculation students took part in this study. Strategy training which was focused on planning and evaluation, directed attention, person knowledge, mental translation and problem solving components and was conducted for 9 weeks. Then, students went through another 4 weeks of online listening practices without any guidance. Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire (MALQ) was utilised to identify the changes in students‟ metacognitive awareness. MALQ was given three times which were first before (Pre) and second (Post) after the strategy training. W...
This study examines pre-university students’ metacognitive knowledge and their perception after n... more This study examines pre-university students’ metacognitive knowledge and their perception after nine weeks of metacognitive listening strategy training. In total, 31 students were selected from four intact classes in a matriculation college located in the northern region of Malaysia. Students received 9 weeks of Metacognitive Strategy Training (MST) during their listening classes. Focus group interviews were conducted after the strategy training to elicit students’ metacognitive knowledge and their perceptions of MST. Students were divided into five groups for the focus group interviews. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. The responses collected from the focus group interviews were reviewed and examined several times to develop themes and subthemes. The findings reveal that students showed a considerable amount of metacognitive knowledge in terms of their role and performance, the process of second language listening, and strategies for listening as second language list...
Self-efficacy is the driving force that makes people pursue a goal and overcome obstacles. Throug... more Self-efficacy is the driving force that makes people pursue a goal and overcome obstacles. Through numerous studies, students with a high sense of efficacy have the capacity to accept more challenging tasks, have higher abilities to organize their time, increase persistence in the face of obstacles, and exhibit lower anxiety levels. In this study, pre-service teachers have oral presentation anxiety, which overcomes their feelings by practicing self-efficacy such as intentionality, forethought, self-reactiveness, self-reflectiveness and self-enhancement through self-reflections after oral presentations. Data for this study were obtained through self-reflection and interviews administered to 13 pre-service teachers at an Institute of Teacher Education to investigate their self-efficacy practices to overcome oral performance anxiety in presenting the topics and analyzed thematically. Self-reflection is obtained through Schoology Learning Management System (LMS), written self-reflection...
Articles on innovative research development and discussions on sustainable issues in Art and Desi... more Articles on innovative research development and discussions on sustainable issues in Art and Design Education Research are welcomed by editors and publishers for the reason that sharing of knowledge would encourage beneficial development to the advancement of Arts and Design education and research.Consecutively, researchers of other disciplines are putting vigorous effort to publish their articles to the extent that promotional strategies are used to appeal the interest of the readers and editors in return increase the possibility of publication and citation. While studies found promotional strategies have permeated into the journal articles in Science and Technologies disciplines, not much has been discussed on whether the Arts and Design academicians promote their work in their journal article writing. Motivated by the understanding that utilization of the promotional strategy in journal article writing would benefit the Art and Design writers in publishing their work, this articl...
International Education and Research Journal, 2018
Actually, the value of English returns to its usage over the entire world rather than the variety... more Actually, the value of English returns to its usage over the entire world rather than the variety of its speakers. In other words, it is international and worldwide in its significance and importance such as, in international field, diplomacy, economy and agreements, global air travel, higher studies, research, peace negotiation, affairs of international cooperation around the world. It is a shared language of individuals throughout the world today. The current study aim to investigate vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) employed by secondary students at Saudi School Malaysia (SSM). Therefore, this study is conducted on cognitive theory of learning studies, the mental processes involved in the learning process. Moreover, this study conducted an analysis of studies dedicated to vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) through secondary students at Saudi school in Malaysia based on previous research problems of models and theories. In addition, this study applied quantitative approach,...
International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
Critical thinking skills play a vital role in making sound decisions, developing creative and inn... more Critical thinking skills play a vital role in making sound decisions, developing creative and innovative thinking, and producing graduates and members of society who can contribute effectively to the country's development. Hence, teachers should develop these skills among their students as they are crucial in producing graduates capable of solving problems and proposing innovative solutions to problems in their lives and society. This paper describes the results of a study aimed at ascertaining how teachers from six Malaysian secondary schools felt about their knowledge and ability in teaching and developing critical thinking skills in the literature classroom. The paper concludes with the implications of the findings in developing students' critical thinking ability.
International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE)
Quality improvement and accreditation system (QIAS) instrument was developed to determine the qua... more Quality improvement and accreditation system (QIAS) instrument was developed to determine the quality management practices level in childcare centers in Malaysia. This study was conducted in Kedah, Penang, and Kelantan to intricate the reliability and validity of the instrument. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and item reliability analysis have been used to measure the level of reliability and authenticity of the questionnaires. Further, inter-rater reliability (IRR) test was used to obtain expert confirmation of the reliability, validity and credibility of the instrument. All the seven constructs possessed high reliability index value between 0.87–0.92. Similarly, EFA analysis showed that there are seven dimensions exist in the QIAS instrument with factor loading ranged from 0.64–0.88. The findings also showed that the variance explained in the data is 64.46% with Eigenvalue more than 1. These results reflecting that all the item are accepted with a high verification. In addition...
This study aimed to find out second language learners ' perceptions on the use of blogs in t... more This study aimed to find out second language learners ' perceptions on the use of blogs in their learning process. Participants were 20 secondary school students from a suburban school in Kelantan, Malaysia. The students read articles, discussed in their respective groups and posted their comments in their group blogs in two kinds of learning environment; being supervised face-to-face and virtually. A survey and also oral interview were administered to elicit participants ' perceptions on the use of blogs. The results showed that although the incorporation of blogs in ESL learning were perceived positively among the learners, teachers need to be aware of several factors affect the effectiveness of using this technology in their teaching such as students ’ gender, personality and learning preferences. This paper also provides some pedagogical implications in the use of blogs for ESL learning.
Academicians are expected to publish research articles, journal publications and book chapters as... more Academicians are expected to publish research articles, journal publications and book chapters as part of their job. Some of the factors which drive the demand for such composition are achieving research publication key performance indicator set by universities, meeting aims to improve university ranking and fulfilling the expectation of research fund providers. While key performance indicators and research grant funds may spur research publications among academicians in the public universities, the practices among the academicians in the private universities are not the same. The differences in funding, policies and structure encourage the academicians in private universities to be more focused on teaching compared to research publication. Public universities are directed to produce a bigger number of researches hence are allocated with more funds; as such, it defines the different research role and the research practices between the two groups. While the different practices especially on the numbers of publication have been reported, the differences in the writing piece itself are rarely given the central focus. Details on how the private universities academicians write, or if there is of any difference from the other group are yet to be accounted for. Such description on the writing practice is needed as to give training, awareness and suggestions on research writing among the writers, language instructors and post graduate supervisors in the private universities. This research looks at the textual analysis of forty research article introductions. The results show that the writers from private university groups are more reluctant to give the justification for their research, less inclined to indicate the research gap and prefer to delay the presentation of their research work towards the later sections compared to those in the public university group.
Citation index for publication is one of the sought-after criteria for university ranking and it ... more Citation index for publication is one of the sought-after criteria for university ranking and it contributes to significant merits in an academician’s performance evaluation.Citation indices are systematically generated to indicate the number of times a paper is cited by other writers.As such, it is deemed to be more neutral and unprejudiced in determining the value of the research articles. In view of the importance of citation index, this study compares the strategies used in presenting research work in the introductory sections of highly cited research articles and those that have never been cited.In order to be cited, the introduction section of the research article must be able to capture the interest of readers, which includes editors, reviewers, and the research community.Otherwise, readers may choose to read or cite other articles. Given the importance and complexity of an article, the introduction section is deemed to be the most challenging section to write by many scienti...
Situated in the first stage of Lewin’s Change Management Model (Lewin, 1947), this study examined... more Situated in the first stage of Lewin’s Change Management Model (Lewin, 1947), this study examined the strategic communication plan needed to enable Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) to embrace learner diversity via diversity engagement. Participants were 56 academics from 14 public and two private universities in Malaysia who attended the Learner Diversity training module at the Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT) between the periods from 2014 to 2015. During the training sessions, participants were asked to diagnose the existing communication strategies of their respective universities that concerned learner diversity, and to suggest ways to fulfill the mission of driving diversity in their respective universities. Each participant wrote three series of reflective writings and these created a total database of 168 reflective notes. The data were analyzed using the six phases of thematic analysis proposed by Braun and Clarke (2006). The findings have identified three ma...
Issues of universities students harnessing and capitalizing the usage of Facebook for their own l... more Issues of universities students harnessing and capitalizing the usage of Facebook for their own learning capabilities and effective thinking is always the focus of education scholars, in assessing the quality class assignments and projects produced by them. Therefore, Facebook is now becoming unbearable influence since the internet activation in the past few years, almost totally interconnected the information sharing and needs among those students. In this action research, the researchers explore the influence and the active usage of Facebook whether this social media networking is confirmed challenging, enhancing and harnessing the learning capabilities and effective thinking among the university students. Thus they could produce quality class assignments and projects under the supervision of their lecturer concerned.
Writing research article to a peer reviewed publication is a complex process and involves dauntin... more Writing research article to a peer reviewed publication is a complex process and involves daunting communication with the referees, co-authors and editors. Publication writing is more challenging than the usual communicative expression yet; prolific writers often pass through the processes without too much difficulty. Prolific writers draw on many writing strategies and one of the strategies is by highlighting the research gap. Most of the time, the research gaps highlighted are those related to the intended research niche and the intended study. While the strategy has been used and taught in many research writing instances, the strategy has been reported to be unpopular amongst the non-native English research writers. Although many non-native English writers are aware of the importance of the research gap, not much is known on how this strategy is being practiced. In view of the underutilization of this strategy and limited studies on the strategy in non-native context, this paper investigates the use of this strategy in 150 research articles introductions in Computer Science disciplines written by academicians in Malaysian Universities. The finding of this study confirmed that indicating research gap" is underutilized by the research articles written in the corpus. In addition, this paper also described four various ways on how this strategy is commonly used by the non-native writers. The confirmation and authentic examples may be useful in the teaching and learning of research article writing.
CD-ROM affordances are explored in this article through participation in classroom interaction. C... more CD-ROM affordances are explored in this article through participation in classroom interaction. CD-ROMs for shared reading of animated stories and language work were introduced to all Malaysian primary schools in 2003 for the Year 1 English Literacy Hour. ...
International Academic Symposium of Social Science 2022
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
Arsaythamby Veloo School of Education and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia Malaysia AB... more Arsaythamby Veloo School of Education and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia Malaysia ABSTRACT This study attempts to investigate whether MUET results can be used as a predictor of accounting and science stream students’ overall academic performance of matriculation program. This prediction will prove further whether MUET result is valid to be used as a measurement for placement in public universities. Data were analysed at three stages using SPSS version 22.0. Firstly, MUET test scores were explained descriptively for the minimum and maximum scores. Then, to identify the relationship, overall MUET scores and its individual components’ scores were correlated with students’ _Cumulative Grade_ Point_ Average (CGPA). Then, multiple regression analysis was carried out to investigate whether MUET overall scores and its components can be used to predict students’ academic achievements. The results of_ multiple_ regression analysis show that, overall MUET score and reading compone...
This action research investigated the use of games to boost ESL rural primary pupils’ motivation ... more This action research investigated the use of games to boost ESL rural primary pupils’ motivation to learn English vocabulary. 18 Year 6 pupils from a rural school in Gua Musang Kelantan were selected by using convenient sampling. Multiple methods such as pre–test, post–test, observation, and interviews with teachers and pupils were used for data collection. This paper highlighted pupils’ voices of the effectiveness of vocabulary learning as the result of the pre and posttest showed a significant difference in which pupils have acquired the new words effectively and there was an improvement after having a game-based lesson. The findings indicated that the pupils showed significant improvement in their vocabulary scores after using games. Students reported that learning vocabulary by using games was fun and interesting, as it increased their motivation to learn the English language, helped them to memorise the vocabulary items faster, and increased their interaction in class. Furtherm...
Statistical literacy among society is crucial in facing era of globalization and competitive mark... more Statistical literacy among society is crucial in facing era of globalization and competitive market. Hence, statistic subject becoming a core subject thought at most of the university program. However, the name of the course is varies according to needs of the program curriculum. Statistic is not an easy subject and not attractive to students. Therefore, through action research approach this study attempt to introduce computer knowledge that related to statistic through training may enhance students’ learning. Undergraduate students of course Statistic for Decision Making are involved which is stood at 57 students. As mentioned in previous literature computer competency will enhance students learning in statistic. However it was not conducted in the form of action research. Therefore, the training was conducted which is tailored to the needs of the course contents. In order to assess the students’ understanding two stages of survey was conducted before and after the training session...
Saratha K. Krishnan (Corresponding Author) Perlis Matriculation College Malaysia Aizan Yaacob Sch... more Saratha K. Krishnan (Corresponding Author) Perlis Matriculation College Malaysia Aizan Yaacob School of Education and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia Malaysia Arsaythamby Veloo School of Education and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia Malaysia ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of metacognitive strategy training on matriculation ESL students‟ metacognitive awareness and their listening competency. 31 ESL matriculation students took part in this study. Strategy training which was focused on planning and evaluation, directed attention, person knowledge, mental translation and problem solving components and was conducted for 9 weeks. Then, students went through another 4 weeks of online listening practices without any guidance. Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire (MALQ) was utilised to identify the changes in students‟ metacognitive awareness. MALQ was given three times which were first before (Pre) and second (Post) after the strategy training. W...
This study examines pre-university students’ metacognitive knowledge and their perception after n... more This study examines pre-university students’ metacognitive knowledge and their perception after nine weeks of metacognitive listening strategy training. In total, 31 students were selected from four intact classes in a matriculation college located in the northern region of Malaysia. Students received 9 weeks of Metacognitive Strategy Training (MST) during their listening classes. Focus group interviews were conducted after the strategy training to elicit students’ metacognitive knowledge and their perceptions of MST. Students were divided into five groups for the focus group interviews. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. The responses collected from the focus group interviews were reviewed and examined several times to develop themes and subthemes. The findings reveal that students showed a considerable amount of metacognitive knowledge in terms of their role and performance, the process of second language listening, and strategies for listening as second language list...
Self-efficacy is the driving force that makes people pursue a goal and overcome obstacles. Throug... more Self-efficacy is the driving force that makes people pursue a goal and overcome obstacles. Through numerous studies, students with a high sense of efficacy have the capacity to accept more challenging tasks, have higher abilities to organize their time, increase persistence in the face of obstacles, and exhibit lower anxiety levels. In this study, pre-service teachers have oral presentation anxiety, which overcomes their feelings by practicing self-efficacy such as intentionality, forethought, self-reactiveness, self-reflectiveness and self-enhancement through self-reflections after oral presentations. Data for this study were obtained through self-reflection and interviews administered to 13 pre-service teachers at an Institute of Teacher Education to investigate their self-efficacy practices to overcome oral performance anxiety in presenting the topics and analyzed thematically. Self-reflection is obtained through Schoology Learning Management System (LMS), written self-reflection...
Articles on innovative research development and discussions on sustainable issues in Art and Desi... more Articles on innovative research development and discussions on sustainable issues in Art and Design Education Research are welcomed by editors and publishers for the reason that sharing of knowledge would encourage beneficial development to the advancement of Arts and Design education and research.Consecutively, researchers of other disciplines are putting vigorous effort to publish their articles to the extent that promotional strategies are used to appeal the interest of the readers and editors in return increase the possibility of publication and citation. While studies found promotional strategies have permeated into the journal articles in Science and Technologies disciplines, not much has been discussed on whether the Arts and Design academicians promote their work in their journal article writing. Motivated by the understanding that utilization of the promotional strategy in journal article writing would benefit the Art and Design writers in publishing their work, this articl...
International Education and Research Journal, 2018
Actually, the value of English returns to its usage over the entire world rather than the variety... more Actually, the value of English returns to its usage over the entire world rather than the variety of its speakers. In other words, it is international and worldwide in its significance and importance such as, in international field, diplomacy, economy and agreements, global air travel, higher studies, research, peace negotiation, affairs of international cooperation around the world. It is a shared language of individuals throughout the world today. The current study aim to investigate vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) employed by secondary students at Saudi School Malaysia (SSM). Therefore, this study is conducted on cognitive theory of learning studies, the mental processes involved in the learning process. Moreover, this study conducted an analysis of studies dedicated to vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) through secondary students at Saudi school in Malaysia based on previous research problems of models and theories. In addition, this study applied quantitative approach,...
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