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Papers by DR ROSLINA ABDUL AZIZ
International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
Gading Journal for Social Sciences (e-ISSN 2600-7568), Dec 1, 2020
Teaching literature to language learners can be daunting. One of the ways to ensure fun and effec... more Teaching literature to language learners can be daunting. One of the ways to ensure fun and effective learning is through the incorporation of music or songs in the language classroom. Numerous studies have confirmed the benefits of music or songs in improving learners' text recall ability and reducing their anxiety. Regardless, the studies have also pointed out a mismatch between teachers' positive feedback on their incorporation in the language classroom and the actual teaching practice due to some limitations such as lack of resources in finding suitable syllabi-based music or songs and inadequate preparation time. Hence, to overcome these limitations, the present study intends to propose literature-based lyrics of The Necklace, a short story by Guy de Maupassant. The effectiveness of these lyrics have been pilot-tested on a group of language teachers in Kastamonu, Turkey. The results indicate that not only that these teachers are willing to use the lyricised literature in their classroom, but they also agree on its effectiveness in improving comprehension and text recall.
3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2021
Previous studies have shown that verbs are indeed one of the essential lexical items that seem to... more Previous studies have shown that verbs are indeed one of the essential lexical items that seem to dominate a text. At tertiary levels, learners are often presented with a list of verbs that are essential for English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses such as academic writing. However, it is believed that the learning and teaching of these verbs goes far beyond the lists of EAP verbs. This is because knowledge of lexical verbs entails not only the knowledge of grammatical structures, but also the knowledge of semantic and syntactic structures. Therefore, this study aims to investigate how commonly used lexical verbs are used in learner writing in the perspectives of grammatical, semantic and syntactic features of verb-noun collocations. To achieve this, a corpus-based study using WordSmith Tools was employed on a learner corpus of Malay ESL learners to identify most-commonly used lexical verbs. These verbs were further given a linguistic analysis using a phraseological-based approach. The findings revealed that the use of transitive verbs led to several occurrences of verb-noun collocations and that the phraseological patterns of these verbs are bound by both lexical and grammatical patterns. This leads to the conclusion that the teaching of lexical verbs, specifically Verb-Noun collocations in academic writing should not only include the semantic elements, but also the syntactical elements of the verbs. It is then recommended that a lesson on lexical verbs should incorporate the teaching and learning of both lexis and grammar.
3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2020
This paper presents the findings of the preliminary analysis conducted on the Malaysian Corpus of... more This paper presents the findings of the preliminary analysis conducted on the Malaysian Corpus of Financial English (MaCFE). MaCFE is a specialised corpus consisting of written documents compiled from banks in Malaysia and the corpus is currently housing approximately 4.3 million word tokens. The aim of the analysis was to evaluate the suitability of the texts chosen to represent the financial domain. The preliminary analysis involved generating the word list and lists of co-occurrences from MaCFE. RapidMiner Studio Educational 7.5.001 and an in-house Java programming solution was utilised to perform the analysis. The word list and lists of 50 most frequent two-word and three-word co-occurrences generated from the analysis reveal that the text compilation is representative of the financial domain in Malaysia. The study concludes by discussing the pedagogical implications of the findings.
Journal of Nusantara Studies (JONUS)
Background and Purpose: There is little research on the use of BE-copula in learner compositions ... more Background and Purpose: There is little research on the use of BE-copula in learner compositions in terms of how BE is used, and what functions it performs at specific stages of composition. This study aims to investigate the functions of BE-copula in argumentative essays written by non-native speaker (NS) and native speaker (NNS) learners and determine the similarities and differences in the way the learners use BE-copula in their essays. Methodology: This descriptive study employed a corpus-based methodology with the corpus data obtained from the Malaysian Corpus of Learner English (MACLE) and Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays (LOCNESS). Only data from L1-Malay learners, which were extracted from MACLE, and which form a sub-corpus of L1-Malay learner argumentative essays, were analyzed in the study. Adopting Hyland’s three-stage structure of an argumentative essay as the framework for analysis, data were analyzed for the distribution of BE-copula and the functions it perf...
GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies
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](Teaching literature to language learners can be daunting. One of the ways to ensure fun and effec... more Teaching literature to language learners can be daunting. One of the ways to ensure fun and effective learning is through the incorporation of music or songs in the language classroom. Numerous studies have confirmed the benefits of music or songs in improving learners’ text recall ability and reducing their anxiety. Regardless, the studies have also pointed out a mismatch between teachers’ positive feedback on their incorporation in the language classroom and the actual teaching practice due to some limitations such as lack of resources in finding suitable syllabi-based music or songs and inadequate preparation time. Hence, to overcome these limitations, the present study intends to propose literature-based lyrics of The Necklace, a short story by Guy de Maupassant. The effectiveness of these lyrics have been pilot-tested on a group of language teachers in Kastamonu, Turkey. The results indicate that not only that these teachers are willing to use the lyricised literature in their ...
Gading Journal for Social Sciences (e-ISSN 2600-7568), Nov 1, 2021
This research was undertaken to measure the critical thinking ability of university ESL students ... more This research was undertaken to measure the critical thinking ability of university ESL students and to determine the relationship between critical thinking ability and the (1) English language ability; (2) fields of study (or major); and (3) academic performance. The Cornell Critical Thinking Test Level X (CCTTX) developed by Ennis and Millman (1985) was used to determine the students’ critical thinking level and a questionnaire was administered to obtain other relevant data i.e. students’ English language ability, fields of study and academic performance. The respondents involved in the study were two hundred and sixty-one public university students in Pahang. The students’ CCTTX were marked and scores were given. Association between students’ critical thinking ability and English language ability, fields of study and academic performance were analysed via one-way analysis of variance using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences Version X (SPSS-X). The findings revealed that ...
![Research paper thumbnail of Sounds of fiction: Songs in the teaching and learning of English and literature / Mohd Rozaidi Ismail … [et al.]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/79233084/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Teaching literature to language learners can be daunting. One of the ways to ensure fun and effec... more Teaching literature to language learners can be daunting. One of the ways to ensure fun and effective learning is through the incorporation of music or songs in the language classroom. Numerous studies have confirmed the benefits of music or songs in improving learners’ text recall ability and reducing their anxiety. Regardless, the studies have also pointed out a mismatch between teachers’ positive feedback on their incorporation in the language classroom and the actual teaching practice due to some limitations such as lack of resources in finding suitable syllabi-based music or songs and inadequate preparation time. Hence, to overcome these limitations, the present study intends to propose literature-based lyrics of The Necklace, a short story by Guy de Maupassant. The effectiveness of these lyrics have been pilot-tested on a group of language teachers in Kastamonu, Turkey. The results indicate that not only that these teachers are willing to use the lyricised literature in their ...
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature
It is generally agreed that collocational knowledge is an important language form for language le... more It is generally agreed that collocational knowledge is an important language form for language learners in order for them to be proficient and fluent in the target language. However, previous studies have reported that second language (L2) learners lack collocational competence and they encounter difficulties in learning and using collocations. The present study not only investigates the overall collocational knowledge of Malaysian ESL learners, but more specifically, their productive and receptive knowledge of lexical and grammatical, which so far have not been further explored. Additionally, the ESL learners’ performance on three different types of collocations: verb-noun, adjective-noun, and verb-preposition is also investigated. Results of the study reveals a few interesting findings with respect to the Malaysian ESL learners’ overall knowledge of collocations, in particular their productive and receptive knowledge of collocations in relation to the three different types of coll...
The paper describes the process involved in developing the Malaysian Corpus of Financial English ... more The paper describes the process involved in developing the Malaysian Corpus of Financial English (MaCFE); a specialized online corpus, which will contain a wide range of written texts obtained from various financial institutions in Malaysia. This corpus will also be the first sub-corpus to contribute to the development of the Malaysian Corpus of English for Specific Purposes. It is built using the corpus linguistics methodology involving four main research activities; (i) Digital Database Construction, (ii) Annotation, (iii) Web Interface Development and (iv) Data Web Release. Once completed the corpus will not only be an important source of reference for research, teaching, and learning of ESP in Malaysia, but it will also serve as a major resource for the training of future financial services professionals.
3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies
GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies
This paper is concerned with the application of technologies developed in other disciplines, in p... more This paper is concerned with the application of technologies developed in other disciplines, in particular with the use of text processing techniques to investigate the problems of second language learner writing in English. The question addressed is whether learner texts produced by L1-Malay learners at the University of Malaya can usefully be processed using the Constituent Likelihood Automatic Word-tagging System (CLAWS); a part-of-speech (POS) tagger developed for and trained on texts written by native speakers of the language. The study adopts the procedure employed by van Rooy and Schäfer (2002).CLAWS was used to automatically POS tag a subset of the Malaysian Corpus of Learner English (MACLE), and the texts were then analyzed for tagging accuracy.CLAWS was found to perform less well on learner text than on native speaker texts, but still with an accuracy rate of over 90%. The sources of error are traced, and spelling errors are found to be the most common source. Closer inspection indicates that successful tagging is likely to lead to problems downstream in later processing, which suggests that to optimize performance, some modifications will be required in tagger design.
3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies
The study investigates how interactional metadiscourse resources are used to articulate and const... more The study investigates how interactional metadiscourse resources are used to articulate and construct gender identity among ESL learners in Malaysia. The main purpose of the study is to provide language practitioners with empirical data of how gender is projected in the academic writings of ESL learners and to what extent learners' writings are affected by their gender. The data can then be utilised for the design and development of more effective academic writing courses in Malaysia. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were performed on the similarities and differences in the use of interactional metadiscourse resources, namely; hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers and self mentions between male and female ESL learners involved in the study. The findings of the quantitative analyses show no obvious differences in the writing style of female and male writers in the study, while the qualitative findings reveal slight differences in the way writers position themselves in the reader/writer interaction and in the expression of agreement statement.
GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies
This paper presents the processes involved in the design and development of the Malaysian Corpus ... more This paper presents the processes involved in the design and development of the Malaysian Corpus of Financial English (MaCFE); a specialized corpus containing a wide range of online/internet documents (i.e. communiqué) from various financial institutions in Malaysia. It describes in detail the processes involved in the collection and selection of data and preprocessing of raw data, which includes data digitizing, cleansing and tagging. This paper also introduces the user interface for MaCFE with its built-in linguistic analysis features. MaCFE was designed and developed with the intention of providing corpus linguistic researchers with the avenue to explore the field and for ESP/EAP practitioners in Malaysia, as the resources for the development of local-based ESP/EAP curriculum and teaching and learning materials. It would also serve as a learning avenue for future financial professionals in their training. MaCFE corpus has approximately 4.3 million words from 1472 electronic documents retrieved from banks and financial institutions' official websites. At present, users can make queries to the MaCFE database using its built-in concordancer. In the future, its language-data-processing facilities will be expanded to include tools for keyword, wordlist and word collocations queries.
International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
Gading Journal for Social Sciences (e-ISSN 2600-7568), Dec 1, 2020
Teaching literature to language learners can be daunting. One of the ways to ensure fun and effec... more Teaching literature to language learners can be daunting. One of the ways to ensure fun and effective learning is through the incorporation of music or songs in the language classroom. Numerous studies have confirmed the benefits of music or songs in improving learners' text recall ability and reducing their anxiety. Regardless, the studies have also pointed out a mismatch between teachers' positive feedback on their incorporation in the language classroom and the actual teaching practice due to some limitations such as lack of resources in finding suitable syllabi-based music or songs and inadequate preparation time. Hence, to overcome these limitations, the present study intends to propose literature-based lyrics of The Necklace, a short story by Guy de Maupassant. The effectiveness of these lyrics have been pilot-tested on a group of language teachers in Kastamonu, Turkey. The results indicate that not only that these teachers are willing to use the lyricised literature in their classroom, but they also agree on its effectiveness in improving comprehension and text recall.
3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2021
Previous studies have shown that verbs are indeed one of the essential lexical items that seem to... more Previous studies have shown that verbs are indeed one of the essential lexical items that seem to dominate a text. At tertiary levels, learners are often presented with a list of verbs that are essential for English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses such as academic writing. However, it is believed that the learning and teaching of these verbs goes far beyond the lists of EAP verbs. This is because knowledge of lexical verbs entails not only the knowledge of grammatical structures, but also the knowledge of semantic and syntactic structures. Therefore, this study aims to investigate how commonly used lexical verbs are used in learner writing in the perspectives of grammatical, semantic and syntactic features of verb-noun collocations. To achieve this, a corpus-based study using WordSmith Tools was employed on a learner corpus of Malay ESL learners to identify most-commonly used lexical verbs. These verbs were further given a linguistic analysis using a phraseological-based approach. The findings revealed that the use of transitive verbs led to several occurrences of verb-noun collocations and that the phraseological patterns of these verbs are bound by both lexical and grammatical patterns. This leads to the conclusion that the teaching of lexical verbs, specifically Verb-Noun collocations in academic writing should not only include the semantic elements, but also the syntactical elements of the verbs. It is then recommended that a lesson on lexical verbs should incorporate the teaching and learning of both lexis and grammar.
3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2020
This paper presents the findings of the preliminary analysis conducted on the Malaysian Corpus of... more This paper presents the findings of the preliminary analysis conducted on the Malaysian Corpus of Financial English (MaCFE). MaCFE is a specialised corpus consisting of written documents compiled from banks in Malaysia and the corpus is currently housing approximately 4.3 million word tokens. The aim of the analysis was to evaluate the suitability of the texts chosen to represent the financial domain. The preliminary analysis involved generating the word list and lists of co-occurrences from MaCFE. RapidMiner Studio Educational 7.5.001 and an in-house Java programming solution was utilised to perform the analysis. The word list and lists of 50 most frequent two-word and three-word co-occurrences generated from the analysis reveal that the text compilation is representative of the financial domain in Malaysia. The study concludes by discussing the pedagogical implications of the findings.
Journal of Nusantara Studies (JONUS)
Background and Purpose: There is little research on the use of BE-copula in learner compositions ... more Background and Purpose: There is little research on the use of BE-copula in learner compositions in terms of how BE is used, and what functions it performs at specific stages of composition. This study aims to investigate the functions of BE-copula in argumentative essays written by non-native speaker (NS) and native speaker (NNS) learners and determine the similarities and differences in the way the learners use BE-copula in their essays. Methodology: This descriptive study employed a corpus-based methodology with the corpus data obtained from the Malaysian Corpus of Learner English (MACLE) and Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays (LOCNESS). Only data from L1-Malay learners, which were extracted from MACLE, and which form a sub-corpus of L1-Malay learner argumentative essays, were analyzed in the study. Adopting Hyland’s three-stage structure of an argumentative essay as the framework for analysis, data were analyzed for the distribution of BE-copula and the functions it perf...
GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies
Teaching literature to language learners can be daunting. One of the ways to ensure fun and effec... more Teaching literature to language learners can be daunting. One of the ways to ensure fun and effective learning is through the incorporation of music or songs in the language classroom. Numerous studies have confirmed the benefits of music or songs in improving learners’ text recall ability and reducing their anxiety. Regardless, the studies have also pointed out a mismatch between teachers’ positive feedback on their incorporation in the language classroom and the actual teaching practice due to some limitations such as lack of resources in finding suitable syllabi-based music or songs and inadequate preparation time. Hence, to overcome these limitations, the present study intends to propose literature-based lyrics of The Necklace, a short story by Guy de Maupassant. The effectiveness of these lyrics have been pilot-tested on a group of language teachers in Kastamonu, Turkey. The results indicate that not only that these teachers are willing to use the lyricised literature in their ...
Gading Journal for Social Sciences (e-ISSN 2600-7568), Nov 1, 2021
This research was undertaken to measure the critical thinking ability of university ESL students ... more This research was undertaken to measure the critical thinking ability of university ESL students and to determine the relationship between critical thinking ability and the (1) English language ability; (2) fields of study (or major); and (3) academic performance. The Cornell Critical Thinking Test Level X (CCTTX) developed by Ennis and Millman (1985) was used to determine the students’ critical thinking level and a questionnaire was administered to obtain other relevant data i.e. students’ English language ability, fields of study and academic performance. The respondents involved in the study were two hundred and sixty-one public university students in Pahang. The students’ CCTTX were marked and scores were given. Association between students’ critical thinking ability and English language ability, fields of study and academic performance were analysed via one-way analysis of variance using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences Version X (SPSS-X). The findings revealed that ...
Teaching literature to language learners can be daunting. One of the ways to ensure fun and effec... more Teaching literature to language learners can be daunting. One of the ways to ensure fun and effective learning is through the incorporation of music or songs in the language classroom. Numerous studies have confirmed the benefits of music or songs in improving learners’ text recall ability and reducing their anxiety. Regardless, the studies have also pointed out a mismatch between teachers’ positive feedback on their incorporation in the language classroom and the actual teaching practice due to some limitations such as lack of resources in finding suitable syllabi-based music or songs and inadequate preparation time. Hence, to overcome these limitations, the present study intends to propose literature-based lyrics of The Necklace, a short story by Guy de Maupassant. The effectiveness of these lyrics have been pilot-tested on a group of language teachers in Kastamonu, Turkey. The results indicate that not only that these teachers are willing to use the lyricised literature in their ...
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature
It is generally agreed that collocational knowledge is an important language form for language le... more It is generally agreed that collocational knowledge is an important language form for language learners in order for them to be proficient and fluent in the target language. However, previous studies have reported that second language (L2) learners lack collocational competence and they encounter difficulties in learning and using collocations. The present study not only investigates the overall collocational knowledge of Malaysian ESL learners, but more specifically, their productive and receptive knowledge of lexical and grammatical, which so far have not been further explored. Additionally, the ESL learners’ performance on three different types of collocations: verb-noun, adjective-noun, and verb-preposition is also investigated. Results of the study reveals a few interesting findings with respect to the Malaysian ESL learners’ overall knowledge of collocations, in particular their productive and receptive knowledge of collocations in relation to the three different types of coll...
The paper describes the process involved in developing the Malaysian Corpus of Financial English ... more The paper describes the process involved in developing the Malaysian Corpus of Financial English (MaCFE); a specialized online corpus, which will contain a wide range of written texts obtained from various financial institutions in Malaysia. This corpus will also be the first sub-corpus to contribute to the development of the Malaysian Corpus of English for Specific Purposes. It is built using the corpus linguistics methodology involving four main research activities; (i) Digital Database Construction, (ii) Annotation, (iii) Web Interface Development and (iv) Data Web Release. Once completed the corpus will not only be an important source of reference for research, teaching, and learning of ESP in Malaysia, but it will also serve as a major resource for the training of future financial services professionals.
3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies
GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies
This paper is concerned with the application of technologies developed in other disciplines, in p... more This paper is concerned with the application of technologies developed in other disciplines, in particular with the use of text processing techniques to investigate the problems of second language learner writing in English. The question addressed is whether learner texts produced by L1-Malay learners at the University of Malaya can usefully be processed using the Constituent Likelihood Automatic Word-tagging System (CLAWS); a part-of-speech (POS) tagger developed for and trained on texts written by native speakers of the language. The study adopts the procedure employed by van Rooy and Schäfer (2002).CLAWS was used to automatically POS tag a subset of the Malaysian Corpus of Learner English (MACLE), and the texts were then analyzed for tagging accuracy.CLAWS was found to perform less well on learner text than on native speaker texts, but still with an accuracy rate of over 90%. The sources of error are traced, and spelling errors are found to be the most common source. Closer inspection indicates that successful tagging is likely to lead to problems downstream in later processing, which suggests that to optimize performance, some modifications will be required in tagger design.
3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies
The study investigates how interactional metadiscourse resources are used to articulate and const... more The study investigates how interactional metadiscourse resources are used to articulate and construct gender identity among ESL learners in Malaysia. The main purpose of the study is to provide language practitioners with empirical data of how gender is projected in the academic writings of ESL learners and to what extent learners' writings are affected by their gender. The data can then be utilised for the design and development of more effective academic writing courses in Malaysia. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were performed on the similarities and differences in the use of interactional metadiscourse resources, namely; hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers and self mentions between male and female ESL learners involved in the study. The findings of the quantitative analyses show no obvious differences in the writing style of female and male writers in the study, while the qualitative findings reveal slight differences in the way writers position themselves in the reader/writer interaction and in the expression of agreement statement.
GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies
This paper presents the processes involved in the design and development of the Malaysian Corpus ... more This paper presents the processes involved in the design and development of the Malaysian Corpus of Financial English (MaCFE); a specialized corpus containing a wide range of online/internet documents (i.e. communiqué) from various financial institutions in Malaysia. It describes in detail the processes involved in the collection and selection of data and preprocessing of raw data, which includes data digitizing, cleansing and tagging. This paper also introduces the user interface for MaCFE with its built-in linguistic analysis features. MaCFE was designed and developed with the intention of providing corpus linguistic researchers with the avenue to explore the field and for ESP/EAP practitioners in Malaysia, as the resources for the development of local-based ESP/EAP curriculum and teaching and learning materials. It would also serve as a learning avenue for future financial professionals in their training. MaCFE corpus has approximately 4.3 million words from 1472 electronic documents retrieved from banks and financial institutions' official websites. At present, users can make queries to the MaCFE database using its built-in concordancer. In the future, its language-data-processing facilities will be expanded to include tools for keyword, wordlist and word collocations queries.