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Pemikiran Nahu Al-Zamakhsyariy Dalam Tafsir Al-Kasysyaf, Mohd Hilmi Abdullah Jan 2002

Pemikiran Nahu Al-Zamakhsyariy Dalam Tafsir Al-Kasysyaf, Mohd Hilmi Abdullah

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The research entitled -AI-Zamakhsyariy's Grammatical Thought in al­Kasysyaf Translation" is written in order to find out al-Zamakhsyariy's idea of grammar in al-Kasysyaf translation. These include both, positive and negative grammatical thoughts. The positive ones are explored in order to bring forward the good ideas which could be used in Arabic educational system in this country. Apart from that, the research will also look into types of translation of al-Quran from the aspect of grammar, language and rhetoric. The negative side of al-Zamakhsyariy's thought is revealed in order to identify types of grammatical thought which are not suitable to be practised …

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Bilingual Translation System (Bts), Abdul Razak Razlin Dawina Jan 2002

Bilingual Translation System (Bts), Abdul Razak Razlin Dawina

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Educational tools have evolved tremendously over the past few years. Educational tools used to be restricted to anything involving pen and paper, it is not so now. With the introduction of computers, the way things are handled and conducted in society has changed. The educational field is not excluded. Parents and educators are aware of the impact of computers on our lives and the lives of their children. Computer usage have been integrated with learning. Therefore more and more educational programs are being developed each day. The Bilingual Translation System (BTS) is a stand-alone system. It is a translation system …

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Kesalahan-Kesalahan Bahasa Pelajar Sekolah Menengah Cina Persendirian Di Selangor, Abdul Aziz Sutan Jan 2002

Kesalahan-Kesalahan Bahasa Pelajar Sekolah Menengah Cina Persendirian Di Selangor, Abdul Aziz Sutan

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Disertasi ini mengkaji kesalahan bahasa pelajar-pelajar Sekolah Menengah Cina Persendirian di Selangor. Kajian ini bertujuan memupuk kesedaran betapa perlunya penggunaan bahasa yang betul di kalangan pelajar-pelajar supaya keutuhan dan kewibawaan bahasa Melayu dapat dipertingkatkan. Bab 1 membincangkan sejarah perkembangan bahasa Melayu sehingga menjadi bahasa kebangsaan bagi Malaysia dan bahasa pengantar di sekolahsekolah. Selain itu, bab ini juga membincangkan tujuan kajian, kepentingan kajian dan bidang kajian yang melibatkan tiga aspek kesalahan bahasa. iaitu ejaan, morfologi dan sintaksis. Bahagian akhir bab ini menumpukan perhatian kepada perbincangan mengenai tempat kajian, populasi dan tumpuan kajian serta definisi konsep yang melibatkan kesalahan bahasa, tatabahasa dan …

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Faktor Leksis Dan Budaya Dalam Terjemahan Arab-Melayu : Satu Analisis Karya Rihlah Ibn Battutah, Syed Nurul Akla Syed Abdullah Jan 2001

Faktor Leksis Dan Budaya Dalam Terjemahan Arab-Melayu : Satu Analisis Karya Rihlah Ibn Battutah, Syed Nurul Akla Syed Abdullah

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This research presents an analysis of lexical and cultural factors in a contemporary Arabic-Malay translation in relation to the process of translating. The analysis is based on chapters 1 and 2 of Pengembaraan lbn Battutah (The Travels of Ibn Battuta), which is the translated version of the original text Rihlah lbn Battutah (1357). Cultural differences between Arabic and Malay cause problems and difficulties in translation, especially in the selection of appropriate lexis. The analysis aims to identify the extent in which lexical and cultural factors cause difficulties in the interpretation of the meaning of problematic lexical items. The translation was …

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Texture Formation In An Expository Genre, Yik Sheng Lee Jan 2001

Texture Formation In An Expository Genre, Yik Sheng Lee

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The purpose of this research is to analyse and determine the language resources that are used to produce Malay essays as required by the local assessment examinations. Essay writing skill is vital for students who are sitting for these examinations. Although such a skill is important students are often left on their own to figure out what resources are available and the ways to use them in order to produce an essay which belongs to the expository genre. The theoretical framework used in this researchs need to fulfil two major requirements. First the theory needs to link the concept of …

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An Error Analysis Of English Prepositions In The Written Work Of Upper Secondary Malay Students, Chek Kim Loi Jan 2001

An Error Analysis Of English Prepositions In The Written Work Of Upper Secondary Malay Students, Chek Kim Loi

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The primary aims of this study are to identify the common prepositional errors in the written texts of Form 4 Malay ESL students who have studied English in school for ten years, to measure the relative intensities of these errors and to find out the causes for the occurrence of these errors. Nine concepts of prepositions which pose the most difficulty for students are examined. They are prepositions of place, prepositions of direction, prepositions of time, prepositions of manner-agent, prepositions of causepurpose, prepositions of similarity, prepositions of association, prepositions of verbprep, and prepositions of adj-prep. The subjects selected for this …

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Analisis Kesilapan Sebutan Bahasa Al-Quran Di Kalangan Pelajar Sekolah Menengah, Mohd Nasir Mohamed Hasbullah Jan 2001

Analisis Kesilapan Sebutan Bahasa Al-Quran Di Kalangan Pelajar Sekolah Menengah, Mohd Nasir Mohamed Hasbullah

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ANALISIS KESILAPAN SEBUTAN BAHASA AL-QURAN DI KALANGAN PELAJAR SEKOLAH MENENGAH, merupakan analisis bagi melihat tahap kemampuan pelajar menyebut bahasa al-Quran. Umumnya, kesilapan dan kemampuan pelajar bergantung kepada sejauh mana tumpuan seseorang terhadap al-Quran. Bab pertama, penulis menjelaskan secara ringkas tentang analisis kesilapan, penyataan masalah, objektif dan kepentingan kajian, bidang dan batasan kajian, tinjauan terhadap kajian yang berkaitan. metodologi penyelidikan dan rangka kajian. Dalam bab kedua pula, penulis menerangkan tentang al-Quran dan kelebihan mempclajari al-Quran, huruf- huruf al-Quran dari segi teknik sebutan makhraj-makhrajnya dan membunyikan sifal- sifat huruf tcrsebut. Huruf- huruf dihuraikan dengan terperinci. Penulis juga menerangkan istilah al- Dabt dalam …

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Analisis Kesilapan Kata Ganti Nama Diri Bahasa Melayu Di Kalangan Pelajar Cina, Siew Yoon Lai Jan 2001

Analisis Kesilapan Kata Ganti Nama Diri Bahasa Melayu Di Kalangan Pelajar Cina, Siew Yoon Lai

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The personal pronouns represent a very important aspect of the Malay Language. The use of personal pronouns. varies according to the social structure and situations. Many Remove Class students from the Chinese vernacular schools find it hard to converse und write in good Malay. This is particularly evident in their use of the personal pronouns. This research was carried out using the error analysis approach. The subjects are 30 Remove Class Chinese students. The data were collected from 60 essays and a test which comprised of 25 multiple choice questions and 5 translation questions. The errors in the essays were …

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Analisis Kontrastif Kata Bilangan Dan Penjodoh Bilangan Di Antara Bahasa Melayu Dan Bahasa Jepun, Aini Aziz Jan 2001

Analisis Kontrastif Kata Bilangan Dan Penjodoh Bilangan Di Antara Bahasa Melayu Dan Bahasa Jepun, Aini Aziz

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The main aim of this research is to study and identify errors in numerals and quantifiers in the Japanese Language which are often made by the Malay students at MARA University of Technology, Shah Alam. The writer attempts 10 find factors that cause these errors and suggests various methods to solve the problems. A survey has been carried out as a background study. 19 sets of questionnaire were administered to the students of the Diploma in Tourism Management, faculty of Hotel Management and Tourism. UiTM. The aim of this study is to get feedback on the errors that always occurred, …

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Conversational Implicature In Child Language : A Malaysian Case Study, Sharon Lan Fong Yap Jan 2001

Conversational Implicature In Child Language : A Malaysian Case Study, Sharon Lan Fong Yap

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Conversational lmplicature (CI) is a form of pragmatic indirectness in language use that is widely considered to be an adult discourse phenomenon. However, detection of its use in children's discourse has led the researcher to embark on a study to document evidence of this phenomenon by investigating IO subjects aged 3 to 7 years. The participant observation method was adopted for this study and the data collected was presented as noted verbatim. The 'as is' nature of the data presented in Chapter Four served to document the children's ability to both extricate and generate applied meaning. Furthermore, by applying adult …

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Frasa Objek Dalam Bahasa Arab : Satu Kajian Kes, Halim Daud Jan 2001

Frasa Objek Dalam Bahasa Arab : Satu Kajian Kes, Halim Daud

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Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji dan mengenal pasti punca kelemahan yang dihadapi dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran bahasa Arab komunikasi di kalangan pelajar Sekolah Menengah Ugama Arab (SMUA). lni adalah penting bagi melihat keberkesanan penggunaan bahasa Arab dalam penulisan dan pertuturan seharian untuk mencapai tahap kefahaman yang tepat lagi mantap. Kajian ini dibahagikan kepada lima bab mengikut topik-topik tertentu. Bab pertama penulis membincangkan tentang latar belakang kajian, bidang kajian, objektif kajian, rasional kajian, metodologi kaj ian, latar belakang sejarah Ma'ahad Muhammadi semenjak d itubuhkan h i ngga sekarang. Dalam bab kedua, penulis cuba meninjau tentang pengertian dan asal-usul bahasa, leksikon kata, …

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Perbandingan Arah Perkembangan Bahasa Melayu Di Malaysia Dan Thailand, Hara Shintaro Jan 2001

Perbandingan Arah Perkembangan Bahasa Melayu Di Malaysia Dan Thailand, Hara Shintaro

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This research is a comparative study of the Malay language in Malaysia and Thailand from the view point of sociolinguistics, especially focusing on the influence of the major language in each country. This study has three main purposes; i) to compare those factors which influence the development direction of the Malay language in each country; ii) to describe and analyze differences found between the Malay language in those two countries, and iii) to forecast future developmental direction of the Malay language. Chapter 1 outlines the background, purpose, field of study, theoretical frame and me1hod of research. Chapter 2 focuses on …

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Learners' Difficulties In Group Work In An Esl Classroom, Aziah Ibrahim Jan 2001

Learners' Difficulties In Group Work In An Esl Classroom, Aziah Ibrahim

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Research on effective approaches to language teaching is an on-going process. This study looks at a learner active classroom where students are encouraged to work as members of a team, sharing a common round table. The Malaysian English Language Syllabus for Secondary Schools recommend the use of group work in the language class. Thus, there is a dire need for teachers to understand the problems and difficulties that learners may face whilst carrying out group activities or task and at the same time, to help these learners overcome such language obstacles in the processes of both teaching and learning the …

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Learner-Teacher Perceptions Of Classroom Processes In An English Proficiency Class, Cordelia Mason Jan 2001

Learner-Teacher Perceptions Of Classroom Processes In An English Proficiency Class, Cordelia Mason

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The main goals of this study are firstly to find out how the perceptions of students and teachers regarding classroom processes differ or coincide, and secondly to identify affective factors evidenced in an English proficiency class. These goals are supported by the need to find out learners' perceptions of classroom processes so that we better understand the learners and hopefully become more learner centered. The method used to conduct the study is the diary study method where the diary entries made by students and teacher are analysed using the procedures developed by Progoff (Mcdonough & Mcdonough, 1997). Seventeen subjects were …

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A Study Of The Composing Skills Among Learners In A Chinese School, Kam Mee Foo Jan 2001

A Study Of The Composing Skills Among Learners In A Chinese School, Kam Mee Foo

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Composition writing has always been an integral part of the English Language curriculum in all schools. However, after years of practice in writing composition, many of our students are still weak in their composing skills. This study looks into the problems of composition writing among learners in a Chinese school. The instruments used in this study were two sets of questionnaires and to supplement and verify data obtained from questionnaire, structured interviews were conducted and sample of students' marked compositions were collected. Data obtained was analyzed via triangulation. The main findings revealed that there is very little direct teaching of …

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A Genre Analysis Of Advertisements In A Local Newspaper, Moi Moi Yong Jan 2001

A Genre Analysis Of Advertisements In A Local Newspaper, Moi Moi Yong

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This study attempts to investigate the organisation of advenisements on private institutions of higher learning taken from 'The Star' daily and to provide a descriptive account of how the advertisements are structured Twenty advertisements on different private institutions of higher learning are selected and analysed using the nine move structure analysis adapted by S. Kathpalia (1992). This genre based move structure is employed as a format to study the structure of these advertisements. It is revealed that there is a uniform pattern of organisation of the elements in the advertisements. An eight move structure is identified. It is also found …

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First Language Transfer Amongst Malay Students In National Primary Schools, Kien Cheng Yong Jan 2001

First Language Transfer Amongst Malay Students In National Primary Schools, Kien Cheng Yong

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This study attempts to discover the influence of first language transfer on the production of written English. Since all the subjects are Malay students, their first language is likely Bahasa Melayu. Their second language is the English Language which is taught in their national primary schools. Besides that, this study also seeks to discover the types of errors involved in first language transfer, whether gender and the socioeconomic background of the subjects affect ESL learning. 194 Year 4 students from two national primary schools in Kajang, Selangor were involved in this study. They were given four sets of writing tasks …

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An Analysis Of Verb Form Errors Of Chinese Esl Students, Yong Meng Kam Jan 2001

An Analysis Of Verb Form Errors Of Chinese Esl Students, Yong Meng Kam

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This study sets out to investigate the types of errors in the simple past and past progressive tenses found in the written English of 40 Form Four Chinese students of Sek. Men. Tanah Merah Site 'C', Negeri Sembilan. The errors are examined according to Corder's (1981) taxonomy of errors. In the essays, selection errors accounted for the highest percentage of simple past tense errors, followed by addition and then, omission errors. In the past progressive tense, the omission category has the highest occurrence of errors, followed by the selection category with no errors in the addition category. In the structured …

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Persuasion In Thesis Writing, Faridah Noor Mohd. Noor Jan 2000

Persuasion In Thesis Writing, Faridah Noor Mohd. Noor

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This study is an attempt to suggest that persuasion is employed in thesis writing . Based on the Social Constructionist Approach , the present study proposes that persuasion in thesis writing is implicit. This is in line with the demands of the academic community that expects scientific language to be objective. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses were conducted in the study. The major study is a qualitative analysis based on a corpus made up of fourteen (14) Master's theses that were randomly selected from the Arts and Science fields. Two quantitative analyses were also conducted on the corpus. The first …

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Teaching Listening Comprehension Skills In An Intermediate Level English As A Foreign Language Classroom, Dwipa Janardhanan Pillai Jan 2000

Teaching Listening Comprehension Skills In An Intermediate Level English As A Foreign Language Classroom, Dwipa Janardhanan Pillai

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This piece of action research was driven by the need to diagnose the problems that students of English as a Foreign Language face in developing better listening skills. As a teacher, I felt that it was essential to scaffold the learning experiences through various strategies so that a satisfactory level of development could be attained. This study therefore, probed the following questions : a) What are the problems EFL students encounter in comprehending audiotexts? b) Why do EFL students face difficulty in taking down notes or information from audio-texts? c) What are the effective teaching-learning strategies which will help students' …

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Kecekapan Penggunaan Kamus Ekabahasa Dalam Meningkatkan Pengembangan Kosa Kata, Noraziah Ahmad Ghazali Jan 2000

Kecekapan Penggunaan Kamus Ekabahasa Dalam Meningkatkan Pengembangan Kosa Kata, Noraziah Ahmad Ghazali

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A general survey of dictionary use would show that there is a tendency to agree that referring to the dictionary is a useful activity in enhancing and enriching one's vocabulary or word power, and that dictionary is a useful tool in language learning. However, the importance of introducing effective technique of dictionary use to students is neglected in the teaching and learning of language; as a matter of fact, it has been left to students to find their own way to acquire the skill. The dissertation seeks to examine how far an exposure to techniques of dictionary use can help …

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Building Bridges : The Use Of Semantic Mapping To Enhance Reading Comprehension In A Form 6 English Language Class, Harbans Kaur Jan 2000

Building Bridges : The Use Of Semantic Mapping To Enhance Reading Comprehension In A Form 6 English Language Class, Harbans Kaur

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This piece of action research study investigates if the use of semantic mapping enhances reading comprehension. The study was conducted in a Form 6 ESL class in Sckolah Menengah Kcbangsaan Taman S.E.A. The purpose of th is study was to probe into the effec ti veness of semantic mapping as a reading comprehension strategy. It aimed at making students aware that understanding each individual word in a text was not necessary to understand the whole text. In essence, this study highlights the effect of the use of semantic mapping as a strategy to activate prior knowledge and enable students to …

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Communicative Events In Sales And Marketing In The Hotel Industry : A Case Study, Sharifah Bahyah Syed Ahmad Jan 2000

Communicative Events In Sales And Marketing In The Hotel Industry : A Case Study, Sharifah Bahyah Syed Ahmad

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This research is a study of the communicative events surrounding the discourse community of the sales and marketing staff in the hotel industry. Focusing on the internal and external communication of one company which is responsible for the sales and marketing of a local chain of hotels, the research is in essence a reality check, a look at text and how it is used in authentic context. Using the ethnographic approach, the researcher has attempted to expose the nonns, values and culture behind the patterns of communication of that particular community through the analysis of its communicative actions. These nonns, …

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Pengajaran Ta'bir : Satu Kajian Kes Di Kolej Islam Sultan Alam Shah (Kisas), Normah Mohd Ariff Jan 2000

Pengajaran Ta'bir : Satu Kajian Kes Di Kolej Islam Sultan Alam Shah (Kisas), Normah Mohd Ariff

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This dissertation on Arabic Language has been prepared focusing on problems faced by students in their oral practice . The writer has recognized that most students in schools and higher learning institution nowadays have difficulties in spoken Arabic. What is the reason? The writer has tried to identify the culprit through various methodologies , including survey on 120 respondents. With KISAS being the location, the survey was specifically focused on its students

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Penggunaan Isim Ma'rifat Di Kalangan Pelajar-Pelajar Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama : Satu Analisis Kesilapan, Ali Hinbdul Latif Jan 2000

Penggunaan Isim Ma'rifat Di Kalangan Pelajar-Pelajar Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama : Satu Analisis Kesilapan, Ali Hinbdul Latif

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A research on the use of 'isim' or noun in certain languages in Arabic language is the knowledge threshold which is never been in touched widely and in detail. As a matter of fact, it is recognized as difficult by a lot of language lovers particularly on school students, college students and undergraduates. We normally hear people saying learning Arabic language is the hardest and most challenging. Due to this realization the writer has chosen this research entitled 'The Use Of Isim Ma' rifat Among Students In Religious School: An Analysis Of Mistake'. May be this is the solution to …

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An Evaluation Of The Reading Component Of Business English Courses : A Case Study, Tuck Chee Pong Jan 2000

An Evaluation Of The Reading Component Of Business English Courses : A Case Study, Tuck Chee Pong

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The Business English Courses are compulsory for Business Students at Tunku Abdul Rahman (TAR) College. These courses are aimed at improving the reading, writing, speaking and listening skills of the students. This study is an evaluation of the reading component of the Business English Courses for Chartered Institute of Management Accounting (CIMA) students. The reading component emphasized the teaching of nine reading skills that were considered useful to reading. The study attempts to obtain information about the utilization of these reading skills and the benefits derived from utilizing them. In addition, it also seeks to get feedback from both the …

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An Investigation Of Subject-Verb Agreement Errors In The Interlanguage Of Esl Learners, Kok Tin Koh Jan 2000

An Investigation Of Subject-Verb Agreement Errors In The Interlanguage Of Esl Learners, Kok Tin Koh

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This study seeks to investigate the subject-verb agreement errors in the interlanguage of ESL learners of a secondary school in Kuala Lumpur. Using a self-designed cloze test. a total of 2,454 errors (61.4%) was elicited and categorised into five main categories of singular/plural subject-verb agreement. From the errors and percentage of errors obtained, the most common error was identified and the cause of errors explained. The sub-categories in each main category of errors were compared to determine which area of the singular/plural subject-verb agreement posed more difficulty to the learners. The subject+ auxiliary does/do category accounted for the highest percentage …

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Penggunaan Al-Damair Dalam Karangan, Manisah Mohd. Nor Jan 2000

Penggunaan Al-Damair Dalam Karangan, Manisah Mohd. Nor

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This dissertation, which is entitled 'Usage of "Al-Damair" in Composition Writing An Analytical Study of Incorrect Use of "damir" in Compositions Written by Form IV Malay Students', is a partial fulfillment for Master of Arts, Faculty of modern Languages and Linguistics, The University of Malaya. This thesis has several objectives. The first is to highlight the importance of the proper and precise use of damir in the Arabic Language. The second objectives is to ascertain the level of performance and understanding in the use of damir by Malay students from religious schools. The third is to identify the causes of …

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Satu Kajian Penguasaan Sebutan Bahasa Al-Quran Di Kalangan Pelajar-Pelajar Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama, Abdul Rahman Md. Hassan Jan 2000

Satu Kajian Penguasaan Sebutan Bahasa Al-Quran Di Kalangan Pelajar-Pelajar Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama, Abdul Rahman Md. Hassan

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Disertasi ini ditulis berasaskan kajian yang dilakukan di Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama Tok Jiring, Kuala Terengganu. Fokus utama kajian yang dibuat adalah kepada guru-guru yang mengajar AI-Quran dan Pelajar-Pelajar Tingkatan Tiga Tahun 1997. Bab pertama merupakan pengenalan yang menerangkan tentang permasalahan pelajar-pelajar membaca AI-Quran secara umum. Kemudian dinyatakan secara ringkas tentang kepcntingan analisis kesilapan, kepentingan kajian ini , ruang lingkup kajian, responden, batasan kajian metodologi dan tinjauan awal kajian lepas. Bab kedua membicarakan tentang cara membunyikan bahasa Al-Quran yang melibatkan makhraj huruf, sifat-sifatnya yang lazim dan yang tidak lazim, mad, qasr, waqaf dan ibtida. Bab ketiga diisi dengan data-data yang …

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Analisis Kesilapan Penggunaan Kata Kerja Dalam Bahasa Portugis Di Kalangan Pelajar Universiti Malaya, Jamian Mohamad Jan 2000

Analisis Kesilapan Penggunaan Kata Kerja Dalam Bahasa Portugis Di Kalangan Pelajar Universiti Malaya, Jamian Mohamad

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Disertasi ini bertajuk "Analisis Kesilapan Penggunaan Kata Kerja Dalam Bahasa Portugis Di Kalangan Pelajar Universiti Malaya". Tumpuan utama penyelidik di dalam kajian ini ialah untuk melihat kesilapan penggunaan kata kerja dalam bahasa Portugis. Kata kerja dipilih kerana ia merupakan asas kepada pembentukan ayat atau sintaksis dalam bahasa Portugis. Masalah untuk menyesuaikan kata kerja berdasarkan gantinama dan kala sering dihadapi oleh pelajar-pelajar bahasa Portugis.

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