{"title":"RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VOCABULARY ACQUISITION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AMONG MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS","authors":"Frankie Subon, Norseha Unin","doi":"10.33736/ils.5531.2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.5531.2023","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the vocabulary acquisition of 143 middle school students from an East Malaysian school, examining its correlation with gender, attitudes, and perceived problems faced in vocabulary learning. Using the Contextualised Word Family (CONTEXTUALISED WORD FAMILY) model, the study tested the effectiveness of explicit vocabulary instruction over 30 sessions. The study utilised a one-group pretest-posttest design, measuring the learners’ vocabulary size through the Productive Vocabulary Levels Test (PVLT) and a questionnaire. The results showed an increase in vocabulary size with no significant difference based on gender, a very weak negative correlation with attitudes towards vocabulary learning, and mostly weak positive but significant relationships with three of the learners’ perceived problems faced in vocabulary learning. This study provides some important pedagogical implications for teacher practice and recommendations for future research.","PeriodicalId":36177,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Language Studies","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139169412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ezwafahmey Ahmad Kusaini, Zamri Mahamod, Wan Muna Ruzanna Wan Mohammad
{"title":"RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TECHNOLOGICAL COMPONENTS AND INVENTIVE SKILLS AMONG MALAY LANGUAGE TEACHERS","authors":"Ezwafahmey Ahmad Kusaini, Zamri Mahamod, Wan Muna Ruzanna Wan Mohammad","doi":"10.33736/ils.5511.2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.5511.2023","url":null,"abstract":"Technology use in classroom can improve teachers’ ability to deliver effective and \u0000relevant content. Teachers should be more prepared to apply technology to ensure that \u0000students will have more fun and have a high interest in continuing to learn in the era of \u0000globalisation which is based on the use of these information communication technology \u0000elements in the classroom during the teaching and facilitation process. This study \u0000identifies the relationship between technological knowledge, technological content \u0000knowledge, technological pedagogical knowledge, technological pedagogical content \u0000knowledge, and inventive skills for teachers. A total of 400 questionnaires were \u0000distributed to teachers who taught Malay language subjects in secondary schools in \u0000Malaysia. To test the hypothesis, the structural equation using the PLS-SEM framework \u0000was used. The results showed that technological knowledge, technological content \u0000knowledge, technological pedagogical knowledge, and technological pedagogical content \u0000knowledge have a positive relationship with inventive skills for teachers.","PeriodicalId":36177,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Language Studies","volume":"111 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138958432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COMPARISON OF THE STRUCTURE OF WORDS IN PATANI MALAY AND THAI","authors":"Nakawat Sareh","doi":"10.33736/ils.5552.2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.5552.2023","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the structure of words in Patani Malay and Thai to determine the similarities and differences in the marker of the two languages through contrastive analysis studies. The data used in this study are collected from Patani Malay speakers who can speak the Patani Malay language well. They can remember most Patani Malay vocabulary and communicate with others on various topics. They can also tell stories or explain something with their language and still use their language in daily life. The informants are students, teachers, merchants, fishermen, farmers, and retirement people. This study indicates that the structure of words in Patani Malay and Thai languages has similarities and differences in rules. The equation includes the addition of affixes, compounding, and reduplication. The differences in the rule of the word in Patani Malay and Thai include the position of affixation, reduplication of the root and assigning an ‘emphatic high tone’, and semantic reduplication.","PeriodicalId":36177,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Language Studies","volume":"123 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138953754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Suhaida Omar, Nur Hafezah, Nurul Fatihah Hanapi, Yasmin See Abdullah, Asma Lailee, Mohd Noor, Siti Bahirah Saidi, F. Bahasa, Pembangunan Insan
{"title":"SELF-EFFICACY AND SELF-REGULATED LEARNING AMONG UNDERGRADUATE IN LEARNING ARABIC AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE VIA ONLINE","authors":"Suhaida Omar, Nur Hafezah, Nurul Fatihah Hanapi, Yasmin See Abdullah, Asma Lailee, Mohd Noor, Siti Bahirah Saidi, F. Bahasa, Pembangunan Insan","doi":"10.33736/ils.5566.2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.5566.2023","url":null,"abstract":"As online learning becomes a major development in the recent years and escalates due the COVID-19 pandemic, it helps to have a high self-efficacy and self-regulated learning (SRL) to succeed in such learning context. This study explored the undergraduates’ levels of self-efficacy and SRL, and provides a comparative analysis of these variables while learning Arabic as a Foreign language via online. The data was collected from 77 undergraduates in a public university in Malaysia through an online survey. The findings showed that both self-efficacy and SRL mean scores were high, and that there was a statistically strong positive relationship between SE and SRL. Students appeared to adapt to online learning by managing their time, organising their schedule, interacting with classmates and instructors, and selecting the best spot to maximise their online learning experience. It is therefore important for lecturers or language instructors to create an interesting and inspiring lesson plans in an online environment so that they experience satisfaction inside and outside of learning simultaneously facilitate them for their success in language learning.","PeriodicalId":36177,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Language Studies","volume":"8 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139168801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GRAMMATICAL, DISCOURSE COMPETENCE AND PRODUCTIVE SKILLS AMONG FIRST YEAR ESL LEARNERS","authors":"Michael Lavadia","doi":"10.33736/ils.5386.2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.5386.2023","url":null,"abstract":"The study examines the grammatical, discourse, and productive competence of first-year ESL students enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences at the Carig Campus of Cagayan State University in the second semester of the academic year 2021. It looked specifically at respondent profile factors like sex, parents` highest level of education, the type of high school they graduated from, ethnicity, and media exposure that may help explain differences in the student-respondents' levels of grammatical and discourse competence, writing and speaking skills. According to the study's findings, the respondents' overall grammatical and discourse competence was graded as \"average,\" their overall speaking ability as \"competent,\" and their writing ability as \"sufficient to good.\" Furthermore, a substantial correlation between grammatical and discourse competence and the respondents' parental education and media exposure was discovered. Speaking skill differences were only accounted by the course, whereas writing skill variants were not explained by any profile variables. The findings also reveal that whereas discourse competence is highly connected with speaking and writing skill, grammatical competence is significantly correlated with writing skill.","PeriodicalId":36177,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Language Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44682746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INVESTIGATING ANXIETY ABOUT TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AMONG EFL TEACHERS PURSUING THEIR POSTGRADUATE STUDIES","authors":"Hameed Gannoun, Naciye Kunt, F. D. Deris","doi":"10.33736/ils.5101.2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.5101.2023","url":null,"abstract":"In the discipline of teaching English, scholars and even language teachers have long been interested in foreign language teaching anxiety (FLTA). With the increasing proliferation of English as a foreign language (EFL), there is a lack of comprehensive research on FLTA among EFL teachers. Therefore, the current study examines FLTA among 48 EFL teachers during their postgraduate programme at a public university in Northern Cyprus. The current analysis included the administration of the Teacher Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (TFLAS) and interviews. According to the results, the participants experienced varying degrees of foreign language teaching anxiety, and anxiety levels do not correlate with participants’ gender and teaching. The findings also revealed that fear of making mistakes was the primary factor that could induce language teaching anxiety. This study contributes to the existing body of prior research on FLTA with valuable contextualised data that could help alleviate anxiety levels experienced by EFL teachers.","PeriodicalId":36177,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Language Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47040855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Z. Ali, S. Shahid, Amy Zulaikha Mohd Ali, Abubaker Hassan BAKRI AHMED, Evelyn Jayapalan
{"title":"ERROR ANALYSIS: INVESTIGATING THE PARAGRAPH WRITING OF ESL MALAYSIAN LEARNERS","authors":"Z. Ali, S. Shahid, Amy Zulaikha Mohd Ali, Abubaker Hassan BAKRI AHMED, Evelyn Jayapalan","doi":"10.33736/ils.5031.2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.5031.2023","url":null,"abstract":"The study investigates an impromptu writing task administered to diploma students studying in one of the technical universities on the East Coast of Malaysia. In particular, it identifies their errors in writing a one-paragraph essay, the kind of errors students made in completing the task, and the least errors students made in writing the one-paragraph. The samples were 48 students undergoing Preliminary Semester taking English as one of the subjects in the particular semester. The study found that students made errors to a certain degree in using articles, tenses, and subject-verb-agreement (SVA), to name a few in the current study. More specifically, the highest number of errors students made were in tenses, SVA, and word choices, while the least errors were in possessive and attributive structures, gerunds, and infinitives. The study implied that assigning students impromptu writing contributed to their performance errors. Despite their low vocabulary knowledge, it also made them less expressive when writing in the condition. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":36177,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Language Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49316749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PENGARUH PERSEKITARAN BAHASA TERHADAP PENGUASAAN KOSA KATA ARAB PELAJAR","authors":"Khairulaizam Abdul Rahman, H. Baharudin","doi":"10.33736/ils.5374.2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.5374.2023","url":null,"abstract":"Faktor persekitaran berupaya menatijahkan peningkatan pencapaian pelajar dalam memahami isi pembelajaran serta dapat meningkatkan tahap penguasaan kosa kata. Kajian ini bertujuan melihat pengaruh persekitaran bahasa terhadap penguasaan kosa kata Arab dalam kalangan pelajar Sekolah Agama Menengah (SAM) di Selangor. Kajian ini dikendalikan dalam bentuk kaedah tinjauan melibatkan 23 buah SAM dengan sampel seramai 335 orang daripada populasi seramai 2,653 orang pelajar. Analisis inferens digunakan untuk menganalisis data melibatkan ujian Korelasi Pearson dan Regresi Linear Berganda. Hasil dapatan menunjukkan bahawa persekitaran bahasa Arab (dimensi kesepaduan pelajar, penglibatan pelajar dan sikap pelajar berorientasikan tugasan) secara signifikannya memberi sumbangan terhadap penguasaan kosa kata Arab pelajar, dengan peratus varian sebanyak 31%. Dalam hal ini, dimensi kesepaduan pelajar merupakan penyumbang terbesar, iaitu sebanyak 8.57%. Kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa pembentukan ruang persekitaran pembelajaran perlu diperkasa melalui interaksi aktif sesama pelajar dan menambah baik sokongan guru supaya kestabilan ruang persekitaran pembelajaran bahasa dapat dibentuk.","PeriodicalId":36177,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Language Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43666359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Berawati Renddan, Zuraini Seruji, Adi Yasran Abdul Aziz, Noor Aina Dani, Nalmon Goyi
{"title":"MEDIA OF LANGUAGE SHIFT IN BAJAU SAMA KOTA BELUD: SPEAKING, UNDERSTANDING, READING, AND WRITING","authors":"Berawati Renddan, Zuraini Seruji, Adi Yasran Abdul Aziz, Noor Aina Dani, Nalmon Goyi","doi":"10.33736/ils.4990.2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.4990.2023","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated language shift among middle-age, adult, and youth age groups of the Bajau Sama Kota Belud indigenous people. The cross-sectional study involved 243 participants, selected using stratified sampling. The questionnaire was based on language transmission assessment by Brenzinger et al. (2003). Results showed that language shift across different skill areas — speaking, understanding, reading, and writing — showed that the Malay language in everyday life is more dominant than their mother tongue among adults and youths. The language skills and the language daily use scores of Bajau Sama adults and youths are not significantly correlated. The two groups manifest the four variables of language shift in Bajau Sama. This study shows that the language shift phenomenon in Bajau Sama is accelerated in the younger generation, and they serve as the living agent of language shift. Following this, there is an urgency to develop a Bajau Sama language corpus and to implement revitalisation initiatives in Kota Belud, Sabah.","PeriodicalId":36177,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Language Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43474100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making sense of leadership and language styles of student leaders in a Malaysian public secondary school","authors":"Sharifah Syakila Syed Shaharuddin, Minah Harun","doi":"10.33736/ils.4377.2022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33736/ils.4377.2022","url":null,"abstract":"Language plays an essential role in everyday experiences, given that it can facilitate and maintain congenial relationships if it is used properly. Not much is known about how young student leaders make sense of their communicative acts with their peers, especially in the Malaysian context. The study investigated student leaders' sensemaking of leadership and language use in a public secondary school in Northern Malaysia. Their narratives were obtained through a qualitative study using focus groups and face-to-face in-depth interviews. The findings revealed several themes that explain the preferred spoken language styles among the student leaders in performing their responsibilities at school. The study demonstrated that appropriate language use should be part of the training of student leaders at school or leadership training curriculum for secondary school leaders nationwide. In that way, the student leaders will not only be exposed to proper language use in communicating leadership, but they will also be motivated to polish up and reflect on their language use for continuous self-development.","PeriodicalId":36177,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Language Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47665634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}