Teaching and Learning Language: Current Trends and Practices (Penerbit USM)

Teaching and Learning Language: Current Trends and Practices (Penerbit USM)
Author: Ambigapathy Pandian
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2014-11-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9838617334

This book represents a collection of papers that relate to the challenges and problems posed by the ever-changing and diversified nature of today’s classroom. The papers discuss and demonstrate methodologies and learning strategies, and in the process, recommend effective practices that are practical and open to adaptation for different teaching and learning contexts. They range from suggestions on how to exploit information technology resources to individual or specific case studies. These case studies report on a variety of contextual issues and problems that are specified to particular learning contexts. This book, therefore, thus not only offers examples of tried and tested teaching strategies but also offers useful insights into specific sociocultural problems that are experienced by learners as well as teachers and interested stakeholders in particular settings and countries. The papers offer a comprehensive documentation of past as well as present problems faced by teachers, policy makers and students, and discuss ways and strategies of overcoming such problems such that the teaching and learning process is not only enhanced but made more meaningful and fulfilling to both teachers and learners. The inherently global perspective of the papers in this book makes it an enriching compendium.

Rengineering Local Knowledge : Current Issues and Practices (Penerbit USM)

Rengineering Local Knowledge : Current Issues and Practices (Penerbit USM)
Author: Mohamad Rashidi Pakri
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 264
Release:
Genre: Ethnoscience
ISBN: 9838618357

This book deals with local knowledge as a valuable source of practical solutions to enhance the sustainability of modern life. It is an eclectic collection of papers written in English that explores various aspects of indigenous, local knowledge in the Asia-Pacific region. Encompassing the gamut of human sciences: performance, dance, literature, arts and craft, architecture, local traditions, religious knowledge, teaching and learning, traditional conservation and healing practices. This book will add on to publication to make local knowledge, especially from the Malay world, accessible to a global non-specialist (read non-anthropologist) readership. The editors have intentionally chosen to classify the topics to embody the transdisciplinary nature of knowledge in this region.

Issues on Skills and Competencies in Education (Penerbit USM)

Issues on Skills and Competencies in Education (Penerbit USM)
Author: Munir Shuib et al
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9838617571

In order to sustain quality in education, students' and teachers' skills and competencies must be continuously enhanced. We cannot be complacent with the skills and competencies that we currently possess. Not only must we seek to enhance them, we must also learn to use them in new situations. We may even need new skills and competencies to keep up with new developments, technologies and challenges. This book is a compilation of selected papers presented at the National Conference of Skills and Competencies in Education 2008. Generally these papers may be divided into two groups: English language skills and competencies and instructional strategies in developing students' skills and competencies. The book features in-depth discourses by various academic members on issues, challenges and new trends pertaining to skills and competencies learnt, gained and taught in today's education. It is hoped that the publication of this book will boost interest and promote further studies among educators and researchers in the development of skills and competencies in education. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia

Curriculum Development, Materials Design and Methodologies: Trends and Issues (Penerbit USM)

Curriculum Development, Materials Design and Methodologies: Trends and Issues (Penerbit USM)
Author: Ambigapathy Pandian
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 370
Release:
Genre: Curriculum planning
ISBN: 9674610898

This book reflects an exceptional collection of articles, literature reviews and research finding primarily linked to curriculum and material development activities. The book covers various aspects from the theoretical frameworks and research findings that govern curriculum and material development processes to actual classroom practices that incorporated learners’ needs and contexts. Articles and research findings selected and presented in this book are primarily based on practicing school teachers’ interest. In addition to its wide coverage in terms of topics and contents, the book authors and contributors are from both local and abroad. This is intended for university students, curriculum planners, teachers, school administrators and teacher trainers that serve as guide for courses in language material design and curriculum and instruction.

English Language Education in Southeast Asia: Problems and Possibilities (Penerbit USM)

English Language Education in Southeast Asia: Problems and Possibilities (Penerbit USM)
Author: Ruanni Tupas
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9674610448

This book addresses the problems and possibilities of English language education in Southeast Asia from the point-of-view of researchers who are themselves also English language teachers. The researchers are from Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and New Zealand. The articles in this edited book examine teaching and language learning goals in relation to the desired development of linguistic knowledge. More importantly, the articles also reflect on the nurturing of appropriate learning abilities and independent thinking that is framed by the expanding learner awareness of identity, culture, and society within and beyond the classroom. Ultimately, the book tackles issues that emerge from the fact that we teach and learn English in a region that is hugely multicultural and multilingual.

Contemporary Perspectives in English Language Studies: Linguistics and Literature (Penerbit USM)

Contemporary Perspectives in English Language Studies: Linguistics and Literature (Penerbit USM)
Author: Sarjit Kaur
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2014-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9838617032

Discussing contemporary perspectives and new developments in the field of English language studies has gained ascendancy in view of the fact that such concerns about learning and teaching English make important contributions to society. Such discussions are of critical importance in today’s globalised societies and more needs to be done towards collaboratively presenting the growing wealth of quality research in linguistics and literature. Linguists and scholars continue to champion the need to interrogate the discourse of literary and language texts using a number of critical frameworks that help sensitise readers to the ideological nature of literary discourse and the ways in which certain dominant ideas of nation, race, ethnicity and gender are ratified or challenged. Readers need to be constantly challenged to think, interpret and evaluate differing views and perspectives. The collection of chapters in this book explores contemporary issues and perspectives in linguistics and literature among educators and researchers whose primary focus is to examine the manner in which English is used for various educational purposes from traditional curriculum demands to answering broader questions about human knowledge, global citizenship and social engagement.

New Horizon of Psychological Assessment in Education (Penerbit USM)

New Horizon of Psychological Assessment in Education (Penerbit USM)
Author: Melissa Ng Lee Yen Abdullah
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2019-08-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9674613773

Psychological assessments are used in the field of education to find answers for the questions raise concerning the student’s intellectual, academic, social and emotional functioning. The collection, integration, and interpretation of all information and data gathered from the assessment will enable better understanding of the student’s characteristics and capacities. More effective interventions, recommendations and referrals can then be implemented. This book offers researchers and practitioners insights on assessment concepts and practices that are in line with the demand of education in the 21st century. As the new horizon unfolded, there is a paradigm shift in assessment; moving from macro to micro level of learning, from accountability of school to supporting teaching and learning, from summative to formative and diagnostics, from assessing achievement of individuals to catering of learning needs of diverse learners. The new horizon of assessment serves as catalysis for more effective psychological assessment in educational research and practice.

ICT and ELT: Research and Practices in South East Asia (Penerbit USM)

ICT and ELT: Research and Practices in South East Asia (Penerbit USM)
Author: Muhammad Kamarul Kabilan
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 398
Release:
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9838616672

There have been numerous debates and discussions on the use of ICT in education, especially in English language teaching and learning. In this book, readers will find it meaningful to further revisit and re-evaluate the existing practices of ICT use for teaching-learning of English. The main aims of this book are addressing some of the critical issues in the research and practices of ICT use for English language teaching and learning in South East Asia (SEA), and discerning the wide range and extent of ICT use in different English language classrooms, where ICT serves as a mediating tool for the facilitation process of teaching and learning. These aims are guided, and then supported by the pedagogical considerations and implications that are underscored as a result of the examination of ICT use and integration in the contexts. This publication would be among the first in terms of examining ICT and English language teaching and learning in the overall SEA context, whereby there are opportunities for readers to learn from different contexts and different countries.

ICT Use in ELT (Penerbit USM)

ICT Use in ELT (Penerbit USM)
Author: Tan Kok Eng
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 251
Release:
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9674614850

This book showcases English educators from South East Asian countries using information and communications technologies (ICTs) as teaching resources and social networking sites as platforms for instruction, as well as communication with their learners. Their explorations in the web-based teaching and learning environment are reported as research studies using a variety of research methodologies across different samples of learners. Thus, this book is useful not only for English practitioners but also researchers like postgraduate students. It can be a reading material for an educational research methods course for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) students.

Mathematics Education from an Asian Perspective (Penerbit USM)

Mathematics Education from an Asian Perspective (Penerbit USM)
Author: Lim Chap Sam
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2020
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9674614117

This book presents an exceptional collection of 11 articles on contemporary research studies that address current and critical issues of researches, theories and practices in the fields of mathematics education at various levels from primary to tertiary education. In addition, the book covers various innovative research studies from both local and abroad such as cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) and assessment for learning (AfL), teaching and learning of mathematics using the dynamic geometry software (DGS), action-process-object-schema (APOS) theory and relationship mapping and inverse (RMI) principle, as well as mathematics lesson structure (MLS) and collaborative lesson research (CLR). The contents of this book should be of interest to both national and international researchers and scholars, particularly mathematics educators, mathematics education researchers, teacher trainers, university students, teachers, curriculum planners, as well as policymakers.