Junaidah Januin

• Universiti of Malaysia Sabah

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed stark disparities in terms of access to technology and the internet, thus significantly intensifying digital poverty given that digital tools and connectivity have become increasingly important for work, education and access to essential services. Therefore, addressing digital poverty and ensuring equal access to t...

Bawing merupakan sejenis tumbuhan renek yang popular dijadikan sebagai ulam dan campuran makanan dalam pelbagai resipi dan juga digunakan dalam perubatan tradisional masyarakat di nusantara termasuklah di Malaysia. Kepelbagaian budaya masyarakat di Sabah yang juga berbeza kawasan geografi mengenali pokok ini dengan pelbagai nama seperti bawing, kem...

Collaborative skills have been perceived as the most important skills by learners, instructors, and employers alike in comparison to communication and entrepreneurial skills. Despite its significant role in the workplace, many find that working together with others may complicate tasks due to limited background knowledge and problems with social dy...

Abstrak: Budaya digital adalah realiti dunia kontemporari. Memahami realiti bahawa teknologi digital telah mula menjadi sebahagian daripada kehidupan seharian kita, terutamanya sejak era pandemik Covid19, kajian ini diinisiatifkan untuk mengkaji isu-isu yang berkaitan dengan budaya digital dalam kalangan komuniti Ubian di Pulau Mantanani Sabah yang...

Discipline of communication science emerges as an academic subject in the West and is relatively slow to develop in an Islamic perspective. The Holy Book of the Quran and the Book of Veda highlights an effective approach to communication, but not much has been studied. Thus, researchers have found that the lack of knowledge in the principles of Isl...

Pusat internet telah ditubuhkan oleh kerajaan di seluruh negara sebagai salah satu usaha untuk memperkasa sistem komunikasi serta tahap sosioekonomi dan merapatkan jurang digital antara komuniti bandar dan luar bandar. Bagi masyarakat luar bandar yang menghadapi halangan berhubung kebolehcapaian dan pemilikan internet serta gadget, pusat internet y...

In Malaysian universities, writing in English is taught in several settings: writing for general purposes, writing for academic purposes and writing for specific purposes. Writing in these settings allows learners to learn to write in different genres, such as research, reports, and persuasive writing genres. One of the standard genres is persuasiv...

Completing tertiary class presentations is an inherently complex effort for ESL learners undergoing EAP courses. They are confronted with tasks that require them to search for information, select relevant sources, read and write highly conventional academic genres, and present findings in an academic presentation. Presenting an essay assignment, fo...

The discussion below revisits the perennial problem of illegal immigration in the Malaysian state of Sabah that has for more than a decade now stood as an internationally recognised case study of how countries sometimes prefer illegal immigrants over their own citizens. This article therefore discusses the process by which the Malaysian Federal Gov...

Discussing the challenges faced in the teaching and learning English as a second language in Pusat Penataran Ilmu dan Bahasa (the Centre for the Promotion of Knowledge and Language Learning), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

Conducting class presentation at the tertiary level is an inherently complex endeavor for ESL learners taking EAP courses. They are confronted with tasks that require them to search for information; select relevant sources; read and write highly conventionalized academic genres; and present findings in an academic presentation. Presenting an essay...

Distance learners have a wide variety of reasons for pursuing learning at a distance ; constraints of time, distance, and finances, the opportunity to take courses or hear outside speakers who would otherwise be unavailable, and the ability to come into contact with other students from different social, cultural, economic, and experiential backgrou...