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Translation And Validation Of The Self-Compassion Scale From English To Bahasa Melayu Among Local Students In A Malaysian Public University, Stephenson Ross Feb 2021

Translation And Validation Of The Self-Compassion Scale From English To Bahasa Melayu Among Local Students In A Malaysian Public University, Stephenson Ross

Student Works (2020-2029)

Self-compassion is a growing area of research worldwide and has shown promise to be useful in providing insight and intervention against rising mental health issues. Self-compassion has also been linked to psychological well-being as well as negative psychological outcomes, which makes it an ideal measure for mental health. However, the instrument to measure self-compassion has not been comprehensively translated and validated in Malaysia yet. Previous studies are lacking in the psychometric evidence for a valid self-compassion scale in a local context. This study presents the comprehensive translation and validation of the 26-item self-compassion scale (SCS) by Neff (2003) from English …


Persuasive Strategies In The English Translations Of The Al-Baqarah Quranic Verses, Dalal A. S. Aldahshan Oct 2020

Persuasive Strategies In The English Translations Of The Al-Baqarah Quranic Verses, Dalal A. S. Aldahshan

Student Works (2020-2029)

The persuasive act refers to the performance of an act with the use of a specific form of communication through language, one of the most essential factors used in influencing people's thoughts and attitudes, setting decisions and controlling values. The persuasive act can be used in many ways by influencing the thoughts and behavior of people or in advertisement which sell products or services by way of convincing people to buy certain products or services. In politics, it is also used to convince people to change their political beliefs or ideologies. On the religious side, the persuasive act is considered …


Analisis Penggunaan Laras Bahasa Teknologi Dalam Majalah Arab, Asli Suhailina Aug 2020

Analisis Penggunaan Laras Bahasa Teknologi Dalam Majalah Arab, Asli Suhailina

Student Works (2020-2029)

Kajian yang bertajuk “Analisis Penggunaan Laras Bahasa Teknologi Dalam Majalah Arab” ini akan meneliti penggunaaan laras bahasa teknologi dalam majalah Arab Aswaq Magazine. Laras sesuatu bahasa dapat ditentukan melalui pemilihan istilah khusus yang menyentuh bidang yang dibicarakan. Objektif dalam pelaksanaan kajian ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti penggunaan istilah khusus laras bahasa teknologi termasuklah istilah pinjaman yang diserap masuk. Selain itu, pembentukan kata istilah laras bahasa teknologi melalui proses derivasi dalam majalah ini turut akan diberi penelitian. Data kajian adalah berdasarkan 30 artikel yang dipilih secara rawak daripada kolum teknologi Aswaq Magazine yang diterbitkan secara bulanan sepanjang tahun 2017. Kajian yang …


Translation Of Humour In The English Subtitles Of Two Malaysian Chinese Films, Kah Yee Tu May 2020

Translation Of Humour In The English Subtitles Of Two Malaysian Chinese Films, Kah Yee Tu

Student Works (2020-2029)

This study attempts to investigate humour translation in two Malaysian Chinese New Year films: Woohoo! and The Journey. There are two objectives of this study: i) to find out the translation strategies used in subtitling humour into English subtitles, and ii) to analyse whether the humour in the films is effectively translated into English subtitles. Chiaro’s (2010) strategies for subtitling verbally expressed humour (VEH) are adopted to analyse the strategies employed in subtitling humour. The results of the study show that leaving the humour unchanged and ignoring the humour are the two most common strategies used in subtitling humour in …


A Comparative Genre Analysis Of Malaysian And English Court Of Appeal Judgements, Chamil Ahmad Zaki Mar 2020

A Comparative Genre Analysis Of Malaysian And English Court Of Appeal Judgements, Chamil Ahmad Zaki

Student Works (2020-2029)

This genre-based research examines and compares the rhetorical structures of Malaysia and England and Wales Court of Appeal judgements. This comparative genre study is motivated by a statement by the former Malaysian Judge of the High Court, Dato’ Syed Ahmad Idid and Umar A. Oseni (2011) in a writing guide book that presents a standard model to write legal judgements that can be adapted to all legal jurisdictions across the world. Normativity statements about the dos and don’ts on how to write judgements are valid and essential to the legal practices but this normative approach does not necessarily describe the …


The Effects Of Task Complexity And Task Condition On L2 Individual Writing And Peer Interaction, Siak Bie Soh Jan 2020

The Effects Of Task Complexity And Task Condition On L2 Individual Writing And Peer Interaction, Siak Bie Soh

Student Works (2020-2029)

This study adopts the Cognition Hypothesis to examine the effects of task complexity, (+/- causal reasoning demand) and task condition (individual, dyadic and triadic groupings) on the L2 individual writing and peer interaction. A 2 (Task Complexity) x 3 (Task Condition) repeated-measures ANOVA (RM-ANOVA) research design, was employed on 36 Malaysian university students. Six argumentative topic-based written texts were produced by each participant in each of the three sessions. In each of the sessions, i.e. individual, dyadic and triadic, participants experienced two argumentative tasks: one simple and another complex based on the principle of natural complexity progression. The individual session …


A Genre Analysis Of Online Crisis Press Releases On The Mh370 Flight Incident, Che Mat Nor Zulaikha Jan 2020

A Genre Analysis Of Online Crisis Press Releases On The Mh370 Flight Incident, Che Mat Nor Zulaikha

Student Works (2020-2029)

A crisis press release is a piece of writing intended for the members of media and general public which specifically deals with a particular emergency case or incident. The use of press release in an event of crisis is crucial as a means of communication. This study aims to analyse the press releases on MH370 flight incident from a genre analysis perspective. 44 corporate press releases are collected from the Malaysia Airlines website and analysed. The findings of this study identify the communicative purposes of the crisis press release which are to disseminate information, to address issues and speculations as …


Entri Agama Berlabel "Ar" Dalam Kamus Dewan : Satu Analisis Semantik., Wan Mohd Saophy Amizul Wan Mansor Jun 2010

Entri Agama Berlabel "Ar" Dalam Kamus Dewan : Satu Analisis Semantik., Wan Mohd Saophy Amizul Wan Mansor

Student Works (2010-2019)

Kamus Dewan (KD4) is the latest issue of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Malay monolingual dictionary. Beside the native Malay words, the dictionary also records a great number of entries of loan words from foreign languages such as Arabic, which is labeled 'Ar'. The loan words normally do not deviate from the narrowing, extension or variation in its actual meaning. As such, the study done is more focused on the aspects of accuracy of the Malay meaning than its original meaning in Arabic with al-Mu‘jam al-Wasit as a key reference in comparing and checking of its original meaning in Arabic besides …


Pembelajaran Bahasa Arab Melalui Aktiviti Lakonan Di Kalangan Pelajar Sekolah Menengah., Azani Ismail Apr 2010

Pembelajaran Bahasa Arab Melalui Aktiviti Lakonan Di Kalangan Pelajar Sekolah Menengah., Azani Ismail

Student Works (2010-2019)

This dissertation aims at investigating the role of role play in assisting Malay student to learn Arabic Language. The respondents of this study comprise the form four student of SMKA KL. This study focuses on the role play activity during the teaching and learning session of Arabic Language as well as the student communication skill. The objective of this study is to identify the student perception toward role play activity in learning Arabic in order to enhance the Arabic proficiency among them in four aspects namely, vocabulary, phonetics, sentence structure and communication strategies. Morever, this study also examines the level …


Masalah Penterjemahan Kolokasi Bahasa Arab Ke Bahasa Melayu : Satu Kajian Teks Tafsir., Saifullah Kamalie Apr 2010

Masalah Penterjemahan Kolokasi Bahasa Arab Ke Bahasa Melayu : Satu Kajian Teks Tafsir., Saifullah Kamalie

Student Works (2010-2019)

Collocation is a universal linguistic phenomenon and has been a common concern among linguists, lexicographers as well as language pedagogues and those involved in translation works. Arabic language has paid special attention to collocation usage, although in the early days it had not been recognized nor termed as collocation. Arabic collocations have existed in the Jahiliah poetry, or Islamic texts such as the Holy Qur’an as well as in language and literature books. This thesis characterizes collocations in the Arabic language, by classifying grammatical and semantic distributional patterns of collocations and investigates the problems of its translation into Malay language. …


Analisis Sintaksis Gaya Bahasa Penafian Dalam Surah Al-An`Am., Saipul Bahri Abd Ghani Jan 2010

Analisis Sintaksis Gaya Bahasa Penafian Dalam Surah Al-An`Am., Saipul Bahri Abd Ghani

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study is a study of a style in Arabic language which is used for the purpose of stating denials and refusals. The author feels obliged to delve deeper into the study of this particular linguistic style for the purpose of introducing and providing comprehension accuracy when constructing negative sentences in both writing and speaking. The chosen title; “Syntaxis Analysis In Negation Language Style Of The Al- An‘a:m Sura” is aimed at introducing the various styles of expressing denials and refusals and to provide textual evidences of correct usages of the language style through the syntaxis analysis of the Al-An‘a:m …


Machine Translation From The Perspective Of Relevance Theory : An Evaluative Study, Yvonne Hwee Hong Yeo Jan 2002

Machine Translation From The Perspective Of Relevance Theory : An Evaluative Study, Yvonne Hwee Hong Yeo

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study evaluates the efficacy of machine translation (MT) in domains where MT is not conventionally used, that is, in non-technical domains where the subject matters involve human, social and/or societal phenomena. The ultimate purpose of this endeavor is to assess the capacity of MT in dealing with the phenomenon of 'context' as well as utterance interpretation. The evaluation endeavor is twofold, consisting of evaluation of MT product and evaluation of MT process, with the latter being the main focus. Such evaluation is carried out through comparison between human translation corpora (HT product) and machine translation corpora (MT product). This …


Terjemahan Tafsir Fi Zilal Al-Quran Oleh Yusoff Zaky Yacob : Suatu Kajian Dari Aspek Metodologi, Mohd Asmadi Yakob Jan 2002

Terjemahan Tafsir Fi Zilal Al-Quran Oleh Yusoff Zaky Yacob : Suatu Kajian Dari Aspek Metodologi, Mohd Asmadi Yakob

Student Works (2000-2009)

Kajian ini bertujuan membuat suatu analisis terhadap terjemahan Tafsir Fi Zilal al-Quran yang dilakukan oleh Dato' Yusof Zaky Yacob terutarna dari aspek metodologi penulisan dan penterjemahan. Perbincangan merangkumi konsep dan teori terjemahan khususnya terjemahan teks Arab-Melayu di samping sorotan ringkas terhadap terjemahan tafsir AI-Quran di Malaysia. Kajian ini juga bertujuan mendedahkan biografi Dato' Yusoff Zaky sebagai seorang intelektual Islam yang banyak memberi sumbangan kepada masyarakat Malaysia. Pendekatan kajian ini berbentuk konsep dan teori, ketokohan, serta analisis dan perbandingan. lanya melibatkan metod pengumpulan data yang merangkumi kajian perpustakaan dan lapangan. Berdasarkan kajian yang dijalankan. penulis merumuskan bahawa Dato' Yusoff Zaky merupakan …


Padanan Terjemahan Kata Nama : Kes Daripada Dua Buah Novel Jepun, Sarinah Sharif Jan 2001

Padanan Terjemahan Kata Nama : Kes Daripada Dua Buah Novel Jepun, Sarinah Sharif

Student Works (2000-2009)

This research focuses on the approaches and strategies to be taken by any translator in the search for the closest natural equivalence for any given noun. However the approaches and strategies are only a suggestion based on the writer's extracted samplings from the two Japanese novels, namely Hatsukoi by Tatsuya Yoshimura and Hyaku lkkai Me no Puropousu by Shinji Yojima. In the writer's opinion, this research on translation equivalence is important as accuracy in any translation will fall greatly on the mastery and intelligence of a translator in finding the closest equivalence. We can no longer think that the translation …