El aprendizaje de la literatura inglesa en Malasia: una revisión de la literatura

Literature has been a core component in English education. By learning literature, learners can learn English without having to understand the grammatical rules directly. With literature, learners can learn both the language and the other elements of it such as culture, moral values, life lessons and relatable situations. Such is the importance of literature; the Ministry of Education Malaysia has integrated it as part of the English curriculum to help increase the level of English proficiency among Malaysian students. However, this has created divisive opinions from various parties due to many challenges and issues faced by teachers and students. This paper aims to investigate the current issues and challenges faced by secondary school teachers and students in learning and teaching English literature. Through this paper, the researchers have highlighted the brief history of the introduction of literature in the English education and how the role of literature has developed throughout the years. Next, a closer look at the challenges and issues faced by teachers and students from previous studies and research have been highlighted for future researchers to take into consideration. By looking at previous studies, it has been discovered that motivation and attitudes towards learning English literature could be major factors that future researchers can further look into.La literatura ha sido un componente central en la educación del inglés. Al aprender literatura, los alumnos pueden aprender inglés sin tener que entender las reglas gramaticales directamente. Con la literatura, los alumnos pueden aprender tanto el idioma como otros elementos del mismo, como la cultura, los valores morales, las lecciones de vida y las situaciones relacionadas. Tal es la importancia de la literatura; El Ministerio de Educación de Malasia lo ha integrado como parte del plan de estudios de inglés para ayudar a aumentar el nivel de dominio del inglés entre los estudiantes de Malasia. Sin embargo, esto ha creado opiniones divisivas de varias partes debido a muchos desafíos y problemas que enfrentan los maestros y estudiantes. Este documento tiene como objetivo investigar los problemas y desafíos actuales que enfrentan los maestros y estudiantes de secundaria en el aprendizaje y la enseñanza de la literatura inglesa. A través de este documento, los investigadores han destacado la breve historia de la introducción de la literatura en la educación en inglés y cómo se ha desarrollado el papel de la literatura a lo largo de los años. A continuación, se destacó una mirada más cercana a los desafíos y problemas que enfrentan los maestros y estudiantes de estudios e investigaciones anteriores para que los futuros investigadores los tengan en cuenta. Al observar estudios anteriores, se descubrió que la motivación y las actitudes hacia el aprendizaje de la literatura inglesa podrían ser factores importantes que los futuros investigadores pueden investigar más a fondo

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) approach for mapping the aboriginal children malnutrition growth : a case in Kemar, Perak / Haslina Hashim ... [et al.]

Geographical Information System (GIS) has been widely used nowadays in health monitoring process throughout the whole nation. GIS also has been used to map population infectious diseases such as Dengue, Malaria and AIDS. This system has the ability to organize, manipulate, analyze and visually display spatial data and provide an efficient result thus can help the decision maker in solving the health problem. The use of GIS to map the aboriginal children malnutrition growth is thus appropriate. Children malnutrition is a multi current dimensional problem which involves with food security, education, and access to clean water, sanitation and health services. An aboriginal child is identify to be under the high risk of unhealthy growth nowadays. The factors that contribute to this issues is the living environment and sufficient of healthy food and clean water. GIS technologies have the potential to be used in mapping the children malnutrition growth and study the significance of the environment which relate to the cases. GIS has the ability to update information and visualize the result for further analysis to be taken by the bodies of interest. The objectives of this study is to identify the group of aboriginal children and their locations using global positioning systems (GPS) that need of assistance and help in health interventions, this study also provide up to date information for decision making and raise precaution awareness towards the Aboriginal Children malnutrition’s problems. These malnutrition children growth results will be displayed by GIS to visualize the percentage growth. Once the result is obtained therefore further analysis can be done to monitor the aboriginal children growth with the support of healthy malnutrition program in future

Taylor-newton homotopy method for computing the depth of flow rate for a channel

Homotopy approximation methods (HAM) can be considered as one of the new methods belong to the general classification of the computational methods which can be used to find the numerical solution of many types of the problems in science and engineering. The general problem relates to the flow and the depth of water in open channels such as rivers and canals is a nonlinear algebraic equation which is known as continuity equation. The solution of this equation is the depth of the water. This paper represents attempt to solve the equation of depth and flow using Newton homotopy based on Taylor series. Numerical example is given to show the effectiveness of the purposed method using MATLAB language

A Preliminary Assessment of Physical Properties of Sediment at Sembrong Reservoir

Reservoir is one of the main sources of water supply and provides functions to hydroelectric power, domestic use, agriculture, flood protection and recreation. Due to the rapid farming, agricultural activities and oil palm trees plantation development that contribute to the increment of sediment, the Sembrong reservoir is slowly endangered due to the shrinkage of reservoir storage. Therefore, this research is initiated to characterize the sediment which could be used as control in future research in the treatment of contaminated sediment. The objective of this study was to determine distribution of physical properties of sediment based on Sembrong Reservoir sediment. In this study, sediment samples were collected using gravity corer at different points in the reservoir area. The physical properties of sediment was investigated by conducted experiments include particle size distribution, bulk density test, moisture content, loss of ignition and scanning electron microscope (SEM). From the data obtained, the bulk density at horizontal distribution was almost the same and the average values obtained was between 10-17 kN/m3. Moisture content of sediment at horizontal distribution at location 3 was the highest with 185.04%. From the particle size distribution, it can be concluded that location 2 had the highest percentage of finer sand where the value was 81% while 19% were silt and clay. For horizontal distribution of organic content, location 5 had the highest result with the percentage of 12.768%. For particle shape of sediment, it was in bulky and flaky categories while the void ratio was getting smaller by the depth

Biodegradation of carbamazepine using fungi and bacteria

Carbamazepine is an anti-epileptic pharmaceuticalcompound which is frequently detected in wastewater. However, this compound is hardly degraded naturally due to its persistency. Thus, carbamazepine presents in water stream and household water supply as well as wastewater treatment plant. This paper focuses on various species of fungi and bacteria used in carbamazepine biodegradation and the carbamazepine degrading-enzymes involved in the degradation pathways. Selected research papers on carbamazepine biodegradation using fungi and bacteria were reviewed. The efficiency and approaches in term of methodologies and technologies used were highlighted in this paper. Such study sheds light on gaps of study and future research direction on carbamazepine biodegradation.Keywords: biodegradation; carbamazepine; method; pharmaceuticals

Mejorar la imaginación creativa de los niños en edad preescolar mediante el uso de canciones infantiles tradicionales malayas

This study is an endeavor to promote music as an effective learning tool to boost children’s creativity in educational setting.  To facilitate this effort, a learning model on stimulating imagination through traditional Malay children’s songs has been designed to enhance creative cognition among preschool children. In completion of this study, Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) is used as a data collection method to construct the designed learning model. The ISM approach helps the study to easily identify the relation between learning activities and understand the relation to the overall structure of the creative imagination enhancement model being developed.  The designed learning model focuses on teaching with emphasis given on roles and relationships between teachers’ theories and classroom teaching practices on imagination and creativity. Thus, this study will generally benefit and bring a positive impact on the Malaysian education system.Este estudio es un esfuerzo para promover la música como una herramienta de aprendizaje eficaz para impulsar la creatividad de los niños en el entorno educativo. Para facilitar este esfuerzo, se ha diseñado un modelo de aprendizaje para estimular la imaginación a través de las canciones tradicionales de los niños malayos para mejorar la cognición creativa entre los niños en edad preescolar. Al finalizar este estudio, se utiliza el Modelo estructural interpretativo (ISM) como método de recolección de datos para construir el modelo de aprendizaje diseñado. El enfoque ISM ayuda al estudio a identificar fácilmente la relación entre las actividades de aprendizaje y comprender la relación con la estructura general del modelo de mejora de la imaginación creativa que se está desarrollando. El modelo de aprendizaje diseñado se centra en la enseñanza con énfasis en los roles y las relaciones entre las teorías de los maestros y las prácticas de enseñanza en el aula sobre imaginación y creatividad. Por lo tanto, este estudio generalmente se beneficiará y tendrá un impacto positivo en el sistema educativo de Malasia

The Role of Balanced Scorecard to Raise the Financial Performance of SME’s Supply Chain

Abstract- The purpose of this study is the role of the balanced scorecard to raise the financial performance of SMEs supply chain. This research is an applied and correlated study which formed the statistical society of the research staff with 1122 people for small and medium enterprises. Using the Cochran formula, the statistical sample of 286 was selected by stratified sampling. Using the Cochran formula, the statistical sample of 286 was selected by stratified sampling. The data gathering tool was a questionnaire of balanced scorecard and financially researcher-made questionnaire includes dimensions of value management, risk control and cost control. The reliability of the questionnaires was 0.79 for the human capital questionnaire and 0.80 for the financial performance questionnaire with Cronbach's alpha coefficient and the validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by experts. In this research, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression test were used. The results of the research showed that the scorecard is balanced and affects the financial performance of small and medium enterprises supply chain. In this research, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression test were used. The results of this study showed that the balanced scorecard is effective on the financial performance of small and medium enterprises supply chain. Keywords: Performance evaluation, Balanced Scorecard, Financial performance, Small and Medium Enterprises, Supply Chain

A Study Of Technology Acceptance Model (Tam) Towards Continuous Professional Development (Cpd)

The purpose of this project was to determine the technology acceptance using Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) towards Continuous Professional Development (CPD) system among University A academic staffs. The dependency of System Usage of CPD system as the dependent variable was cross check with four independent variables namely, Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, Management Support, and System Quality. A total of fifty five correspondents replied the questionnaires and the data obtained were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Quality have positive relationships with System Usage of CPD while management support has negative relationships with CPD