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Kajian ini tertumpu kepada persepsi pelajar terhadap cerita rakyat Melayu. Objektif kajian adalah... more Kajian ini tertumpu kepada persepsi pelajar terhadap cerita rakyat Melayu. Objektif kajian adalah untuk mengenalpasti dan membincangkan persepsi pelajar terhadap cerita rakyat Melayu. Sampel kajian terdiri daripada 20 subjek pelajar lelaki dan perempuan di Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea. Pelajar diberi tiga buah cerita rakyat dan mereka ditemubual berpandukan kefahaman mereka terhadap cerita tersebut. Perbualan mereka dirakam dan dianalisis dengan menggunakan analisis wacana oleh Brown & Yule (1983). Keputusan kajian mendapati bahawa pelajar telah membuat andaian, implikasi, rujukan dan inferen melalui ujaran tentang cerita tersebut. Selain itu, pelajar amat menyukai cerita rakyat kerana semua cerita adalah menarik dan mudah untuk difahami. Adalah diharapkan supaya kajian akan datang dapat membezakan di antara cerita rakyat Melayu dengan cerita rakyat Korea.

Kajian ini bertujuan mengenal pasti dan mengelaskan jenis strategi komunikasi tulisan dalam pembe... more Kajian ini bertujuan mengenal pasti dan mengelaskan jenis strategi komunikasi tulisan dalam pembelajaran bahasa Melayu oleh pelajar Perancis. Kajian ini berdasarkan taksonomi strategi komunikasi oleh Dornyei dan Scott yang tertumpu pada kaedah kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Responden kajian terdiri daripada pelajar tahun tiga sarjana muda bahasa Melayu di Institut Nationale des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, Perancis. Sejumlah 10 orang pelajar Perancis yang mempelajari mata pelajaran bahasa Melayu tahap lanjutan terlibat dalam kajian ini. Instrumen yang digunakan ialah empat aktiviti penulisan dan senarai semak strategi. Dapatan keseluruhan berdasarkan penulisan pelajar menunjukkan antara strategi komunikasi yang paling kerap digunakan ialah strategi penghampiran (28.1 peratus), strategi penggunaan perkataan untuk semua tujuan (15.8 peratus), strategi penghuraian (12.9 peratus) dan strategi ciptaan perkataan baru (11.7 peratus). Kajian ini memberikan implikasi kep...

Shojo manga is a genre of Japanese comics which targets young females from the age of seven to tw... more Shojo manga is a genre of Japanese comics which targets young females from the age of seven to twenty years old. Shojo which means "little girl" while manga means 'comic' varies in terms of narrative and graphic style, with background from history to science fiction. Shojo manga usually tinged with romance, humor, conflict and emotions in a loving relationship between a man and a woman. The term “Shojo manga” refers not the story or the sketch in the comic, but it i refers to the target audience of women in the early stages of adolescence. Shojo manga was first popularized by Ozuka Tesamu after World War 2 with a manga titled Princess Knight. In the Mid-1960s, the first female writer of shojo manga, Yoshiko Nishitani wrote about the love story among contemporary Japanese girl. This study examined the text contained in shojo manga translations and identifies the features contained in the shojo manga, outlining the factors that make shojo manga succeed in the global...

Cross cultural communication often occurs in a speech when one speaks with someone who is differe... more Cross cultural communication often occurs in a speech when one speaks with someone who is different in gender, language, race, religion and social status. A tour guide has to be equipped with the ability to transmit accurate information in order to create effective cross-cultural communication. Cross-cultural communication necessities a review of the characteristics of conversation and communication strategies used by tour guides. This paper examines the characteristics of conversation and communication strategy based on the context of cross-cultural communication between Japanese speaking tour guides and Japanese tourists in Kuala Lumpur. The data were collected based on the comparison between tour guides who are proficient and less proficient in Japanese language. The respondents of this study are two licensed Japanese spoken tourist guides and with permit as Japanese speaking tourist guides. The conversation recorded was between the tourist guides and Japanese tourists for two vi...

This paper examines the phenomenon of mixed code in the header or slogan in contemporary commerci... more This paper examines the phenomenon of mixed code in the header or slogan in contemporary commercial advertising printed in Spanish-language publication in summer 2014. The study included 50 titles or advertising slogans related to fashion and beauty products are extracted from four magazine namely Glamour, Vogue, Marie Claire and MODAyLOOK analyzed based on the mixing code approach by Kachru (1978). The analysis found English lexical items mixed by inter lingual into the advertising discourse text in Spain. This study is a combination of qualitative and quantitative. Observation methods used to classify the characteristics of each English lexical items used in the selected advertising discourse text. The study found that as many as 31.7% general noun, 17.6% English specific noun that refers to the brand product used directly without any element of translation. There are also as many as 22.2% of adjectives and 16.8% English verb combined inter lingual into the target language senten...

Kajian ini memberi fokus kepada pengaruh drama Korea dalam pembangunan komuniti remaja di Malaysi... more Kajian ini memberi fokus kepada pengaruh drama Korea dalam pembangunan komuniti remaja di Malaysia. Kajian ini melibatkan 120 subjek dalam kalangan pelajar perempuan di salah sebuah sekolah di Serdang, Selangor. Subjek ini berumur dari 13 hingga 17 tahun dan mereka dikenal pasti sebagai peminat drama Korea. Objektif kajian adalah untuk mengenal pasti genre drama Korea yang diminati dan membincangkan pengaruh drama Korea terhadap pembangunan diri pelajar. Instrumen kajian terdiri daripada satu set soal selidik yang diedarkan dan rakaman temu bual bersama subjek dianalisis bagi tujuan kajian ini. Dapatan kajian mendapati bahawa pengaruh drama Korea telah memberi impak yang positif terhadap pembangunan diri pelajar tersebut. Adalah diharapkan pengaruh yang positif daripada drama Korea dapat memberikan nilai moral dan pengajaran terhadap kehidupan seharian remaja di Malaysia.

Kajian ini bertujuan untuk membandingkan strategi penggunaan perkataan untuk semua tujuan yang di... more Kajian ini bertujuan untuk membandingkan strategi penggunaan perkataan untuk semua tujuan yang digunakan oleh pelajar Melayu yang mengambil mata pelajaran Bahasa Perancis sebagai bahasa asing dan pelajar Perancis yang mengambil mata pelajaran Bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa asing. Seramai 15 orang responden terlibat dalam kajian ini. Mereka diminta melakukan satu set aktiviti penulisan. Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah penganalisisan kualitatif dan kuantitatif yang diubah suai daripada kerangka definisi penggunaan perkataan semua tujuan oleh Dornyei (1995). Hasil kajian mendapati bahawa pelajar Melayu banyak menggunakan strategi penggunaan perkataan untuk semua tujuan pada artikel kata nama, kata kerja, kata posesif dan preposisi, sementara pelajar Perancis pula menggunakan strategi ini pada imbuhan, kata nama dan kata jamak. Kajian ini memberikan implikasi pedagogi untuk menarik perhatian guru bahasa Perancis dan bahasa Melayu tentang perspektif pelajar yang berbeza terhadap penggunaan s...

Makalah ini mengkaji fenomena percampuran kod dalam tajuk atau slogan iklan komersial kontemporar... more Makalah ini mengkaji fenomena percampuran kod dalam tajuk atau slogan iklan komersial kontemporari bercetak berbahasa Sepanyol terbitan musim panas 2014. Kajian ini melibatkan 50 tajuk atau slogan iklan yang berkaitan dengan fesyen dan produk kecantikan yang dipetik daripada empat buah majalah iaitu Glamour, Vogue, Marie Claire dan MODAyLOOK. Hasil analisis mendapati item-item leksikal bahasa Inggeris dicampurkan secara interlingual ke dalam teks wacana iklan di Sepanyol. Kajian ini merupakan kajian kualitatif walaupun terdapat sebahagian hasil penemuan yang dipaparkan menggunakan kaedah kuantitatif. Kaedah pemerhatian digunakan dalam pengkelasan ciri-ciri setiap item leksikal bahasa Inggeris yang digunapakai dalam setiap teks wacana iklan terpilih. Hasil kajian mendapati sebanyak 31.7% kata nama am, 17.6% kata nama khas bahasa Inggeris yang merujuk kepada jenama produk digunapakai secara langsung tanpa sebarang unsur terjemahan. Terdapat juga sebanyak 22.2% kata adjektif dan 16.8% ...

This study focuses on the spoken discourse among primary school learners. The objectives of the s... more This study focuses on the spoken discourse among primary school learners. The objectives of the study were to identify and discuss the multimedia components of the program used in order to give awareness towards the Malay folklore. The samples of the study consist of 10 subjects from a school in Melaka. The subjects were given a Malay folklore program. They viewed the program and they were divided into two groups. The groups were given two hours a week for four weeks to discuss the multimedia elements of the program. The interactions were taped and analyzed by using the spoken discourse analysis by Stubbs (1983). The results of the study revealed that the subjects were able to give their views and opinions based on the layout of the Malay folklore program. It is hoped that further study will focus on other component of multimedia in other genre of Malay literature.

This study focused on students' perceptions on Malay folklore. The objective of the study is ... more This study focused on students' perceptions on Malay folklore. The objective of the study is to identify and discuss the students' perceptions on Malay folklore. The sample consisted of 20 subjects were male and female students at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea. Students are given three folklore and they have been interviewed based on their understanding of the story. Their conversation was recorded and analyzed using discourse analysis by Brown and Yule (1983). The study found that students have to make assumptions, implications, reference and inference, through the utterance of these stories. Students discuss the revelations that shaped the assumptions, implications, reference and inference. In addition, the students really like folklore because all stories are interesting and easy to understand. It is hoped that future research can distinguish between the Malay folklore and Korean folklore. Abstrak Kajian ini tertumpu kepada persepsi pelajar terhadap cerita r...

This exploratory study aimed to determine and categorize the type of Malaysian non-native speaker... more This exploratory study aimed to determine and categorize the type of Malaysian non-native speakers’ communication strategies (CS) in learning French with regard to speaking skills. The study, which was based on Dornyei & Scott’s (1997) model of communication strategy, utilized both a qualitative and a simple quantitative method of data collection. The subjects consisted of 2nd and 3rd year foreign language students from various programs at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). A total of 10 Malaysian students in the French language course participated in this study. The main instruments used were a speaking task prompt, an observation checklist, and an audio recording. The overall findings based on the observations and transcription of the audio recordings indicated that among the most frequently used communication strategies were the use of literal translation (26.4%), the use of all-purpose words (18.4%), topic abandonment (12.8%) and foreignizing from English (8.8%). The findings have...

Sering kali terdapat kesilapan pelajar dalam mempelajari bahasa Perancis. Kesilapan ini akan meng... more Sering kali terdapat kesilapan pelajar dalam mempelajari bahasa Perancis. Kesilapan ini akan menggugat proses penguasaan bahasa kerana ia akan memberi kesan terhadap proses penguasaan gramatikal dan semantik pelajar. Justeru itu, kajian ini bertujuan menganalisis kesilapan ejaan dalam karangan pelajar yang mempelajari bahasa Perancis sebagai bahasa asing. Sampel dalam kajian ini terdiri daripada 15 karangan sepanjang 250 – 400 perkataan yang disediakan oleh pelajar tahap Tiga. Analisis kajian ini dilakukan secara kuantitatif dan kualitatif dengan mengaplikasikan pengkelasan kesilapan ejaan oleh Rimrott & Heift (2008). Hasil kajian mendapati sebanyak 77 kesilapan dilakukan oleh pelajar, yang melibatkan 22 kesilapan fonologikal, 33 kesilapan morfologikal dan 22 kesilapan leksikal. Hasil kajian juga mendapati, kesilapan ini berlaku disebabkan kekeliruan fonologikal, generalisasi terlampau daripada bahasa Inggeris dan ketidakfahaman mengenai tatabahasa bahasa Perancis, khususnya yang me...

Jurnal Teknologi, 2014

Japanese animation or anime started to gain interest among teenagers and adults since 1990s. Now ... more Japanese animation or anime started to gain interest among teenagers and adults since 1990s. Now the popularity increases parallel with the new technologies. This paper looks into the outcome of conversatsion among the students at two secondary schools in Selangor, Malaysia. The students were chosen based on the questionnaire. 34 students were selected based on their answers from the questionaire. Based on the interview session, they were fanatic fans of animation and manga. The results of the study revealed that they were five main characteristics in anime characters that the liked; bravery, hardworking, sense of humour, appreciative in relationship as well as individual speciality.

Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, 2013

Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication, 2015

Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics, 2018

This paper investigates the choices of second person terms of address in the Malay culture. It ex... more This paper investigates the choices of second person terms of address in the Malay culture. It examines the different patterns of address terms used in a range of communicative situations by interlocutors coming from diverse social backgrounds. The data for this study was obtained from two Malay dramas Ijab & Qabul (The solemnization of marriage) and Tiga Hari Menanti Mati (Three Days Until Death). These dramas were selected because they reflect in the usage of terms of address in an authentic social context of the Malay culture and represent various interpersonal relationships in a range of situations. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. Forty-eight different second person terms of address were recorded and analysed in specific contexts based on the framework for classifying address terms established by Kroger, Wood and Kim (1984). The findings suggest that sociolinguistic elements such as interlocutors, contexts, determinants of interpersonal relationship, and...

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review, 2009

The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review, 2009

The learning of literature for adult L2 learners has not always been easy. Research has supported... more The learning of literature for adult L2 learners has not always been easy. Research has supported learner-centered approaches as being viable in helping learners with reading reluctance and proficiency problems to master literary texts. Literature Circles, a learner-centered ...

Jurnal Teknologi, 2014

Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, 2013

Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication, 2015

Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics, 2018

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review, 2009

The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review, 2009

Life is full of thunder and lightning and we never really think that everything will change towar... more Life is full of thunder and lightning and we never really think that everything will change towards a better perspective and the world accepts who we are. A few lines of words, a few words of light, a few phrases of underline gestures would change our day... Thus, we started reflecting with our own experience. Our happy moments... our sad moments... calm and distress... comfort and anger... We smile when we are happy... We cry when we are down... No matter where we are, we feel that our own experiences need to be shared with others to acclimatize the journey of life... We hope that our lines will make others feel good, inspired, motivated and gratified. Smile with confidence as the tranquility and calmness in every one of us will make earth a better place to stay...

The rapid development in Information Communication Technology provides diversified methods and ap... more The rapid development in Information Communication Technology provides diversified methods and approaches of language teaching and learning. Effective teaching methods and resources have to be taken much emphasis to promote active participation and interaction of students in classroom activities. To date, social media is gaining tremendous favour in the educational system specifically in the field of language teaching and learning as it enriches the learning experience by allowing students and teachers to connect and interact in new, exciting ways. The rapid explosion and extensive adoption of social media has made it possible for one person to communicate with thousands people worldwide. As such, the possibilities for social media in education are equally exciting as it is a platform to enhance students’ education. Thus, it is our main aim to provide various types of social media applications that is possible to be implemented in English as a Second Language Classroom. The focus is on the research that has been done using Facebook, email, Instagram, Twitter and blogs. We explore the past researches that have been done and look at the impact of the social media as well as identify issues and ways to overcome the problems related to using social media in ESL classroom. In fact, we insert the steps for creating new accounts to assist the newcomers of social media. We strongly believe that this publication will be of great assistance to language teachers and learners to be involved in the era of global technology.