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An Antidote To The Anesthetic: A Diary Study, Carol Rasmussen Schramm

Dissertations and Theses

The teaching experiences of an American ESL teacher, recorded in a critically reflective diary, for the basis for this study. Through analysis of the diary, the culturally formed and framed attitudes, beliefs, and assumptions of the teacher are explored in an attempt to understand the dialectic relationship between the diarist's culture and the cultures of her students. The researcher believes that increases in awareness in these areas can lead to improved teaching practice. Thus, one goal of this study is the professional development of its author.

The literature in the field of TESOL does not adequately address the impact of …

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

Student Works (2000-2009)

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 …

Terjemahan Bahasa Kiasan Dalam Novel `Kokoro' Dari Bahasa Jepun Ke Bahasa Melayu : Satu Analisis, Jaafar Jambi

Student Works (2000-2009)

The translation of figurative language is an aspect of translation which not only requires the knowledge of languages and cultures of both source and target languages but also of specific discourse and appropriate translation strategies peculiar to idiomatic expressions. This dissertation studies and analyses the translation of figurative language from Japanese into Malay in order to identify types and ways of translating idiomatic language. For this purpose the translation of a novel by Soseki Natsurne (1914) entitled KOKORO has been selected. The translated version is entitled KALBU translated by Thaiyibah Sulairnan (1996). The objectives of this study are :- 1. …

Pemakaian Al-Nawasikh Pada Ayat Namaan Dalam Bahasa Arab, Ghazali Majid

Student Works (2000-2009)

Annullers represent active elements used in nominal sentences and play a role with definite functions. Annulers influence changes in the meaning of a sentence and the declension of the sentence. Wrong interpretation in the understanding of the function can cause irregularities in the meaning end vowels of a word. This occurs especially because of differences in the contraction of a sentence between the Arabic language and the Malay language. Moreover discussions and annular are abundant because there are many varieties and branches of annullers , if is difficult to understand as wen as to remember them for implementation in written …

Tempat Kembali Damir Ghaib Di Dalam Al-Qur'an Al-Karim : Satu Kajian Di Dalam Surah Al-An Am, Gurcharan Kaur

Student Works (2000-2009)

Third Person Pronoun and its reference are interrelated. These two items are actually important principles of sentence construction in the Arabic Language. to be a basis of formation of one word with another in order to construct to complete sentence. This research will focus on the measure which is used in order to refer Third Person Pronoun to its reference in the Arabic Language in general and in the al-Qur'an in particular. Besides that, this particular research will analyse some problems related to the references in the Arabic Language. The research will also emphasize the practicality of its usage in …

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

Student Works (2000-2009)

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 …

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

Student Works (2000-2009)

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 …

¿Corregir O No Los Errores En La Clase De Español Como Lengua Extranjera?, Eva NúÑEz-MéNdez

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

A lo largo de la historia de la enseñanza de las lenguas extranjeras los errores se han considerado desde diferentes perspectivas: algunas veces se han visto como algo totalmente negativo (como fallos que demostraban la incapacidad del estudiante para expresarse correctamente), otras como la única guía indicativa para examinar el proceso del aprendizaje lingüístico. Desde los años setenta con el método contrastivo hasta el contemporáneo método comunicativo el rumbo de la investigación y corrección de los errores ha cambiado en gran medida. Hasta que Pit Corder publicó “The significance of learners’ errors” en 1967 se pensaba que los errores se …

Attitudes At The Bank : A Survey Of Reactions To Different Varieties Of English, Sean Wilcox

Dissertations and Theses

In the modem world of international communication, it is more common for speakers of different varieties of English to come into contact with each other on a daily basis. This can occur not only in face to face communication, but in telephone communication as well.

This study investigates the attitudes towards a non-native or Expanding Circle (ECE) variety of English held by telephone customer service representatives at a large American financial institution. The central question of this study asks whether or not these telephone representatives will rate a speaker of a Korean-accented variety of English higher or lower than a …

An Analysis Of Nominal Groups In Inspirational Writings : A Systemic-Functional Approach, Wai To Wong

Student Works (2000-2009)

The Nominal Group (NG), which carries lexical content, is part of a clause that contains nouns, determiners, numerals, epithets, classifiers and qualifiers. This paper gives an overview of how NGs function in response to the concepts found in inspirational writings with Christian themes. The NGs are selected from five different sources on such writings. The NGs are quantitatively and qualitatively described and analysed in both their logical and experiential structures. The theoretical foundations of Systemic Functional Grammar are adapted for use, following the framework espoused by M A K Halliday (1994), for the NG analysis. The NGs are first demarcated, …

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

Student Works (2000-2009)

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 …

A Study Of Stipulative Terms In Conversational Malaysian English, Aileen Cheng Cheng Ng

Student Works (2000-2009)

Malaysian English as a new variety of English is constantly changing and evolving due to the influence of culture and ethnicity in Malaysia. Although fast developing and expanding into various domains such as home, office and recreation, it has not gained recognition in the international arena of Linguistics since it is still a relatively new field. Regardless of the researches that have been conducted on Malaysian English, this new variety of English has not exactly been viewed in a positive light. Foreigners and Malaysians alike have regarded Malaysian English as a substandard variety of English, often equating it with broken …

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

Student Works (2000-2009)

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 …

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

Student Works (2000-2009)

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 …

An Analysis Of Local Internet Relay Chat, It Ting Beh

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study first examined the language convention features (emoticon and typographic) employed by the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) participants. Second, it examined the code-switching patterns and the communicative purposes in Malaysian IRC. Third, it analysed whether the strategies of the openings and closings are transferred from face-to-face communication to IRC. Six extracts, one-hour chat each, from the #mamak channel were analyzed to identify the above. Moreover, questionnaires were administered to five faculties in University of Malaya to support some of the findings. Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson's (1974) adjacency pair model and sequential location modeI were used as the framework to …