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Masdinah Md Yusof currently works at the Language Academy, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Masdinah does research in ELT - Methodology, Material Development and Assessment, and Inbound/Outbound Language program. Her current project is 'Summer School Program.'
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The adoption of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in the English Language Education Roadmap 2015-2025 is a reform effort to enhance the standard of our students’ English language proficiency level. While it is a commendable initiative, its implementation in schools has received mixed reactions especially from teachers...
Background and purpose: With rapid global development happening in the world today, the field of education has been awash with various change forces. In an effort to ensure its system is globally competitive, Malaysia has taken a step to align its English language education system to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). However, any c...
The aim of this study is to investigate college adaptation among international postgraduates in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) as students are the main customers of higher learning institution and determining their adaptation level can provide valuable insight to this institution. This study was conducted in Semester II 2012/2013 and consisted...
The importance of active learning and higher order thinking skills among students at higher learning institutions have steered lecturers to employ the flipped classroom approach in their classes. The move is hoped to assist students to become active recipients of knowledge and break away from the traditional learning method where knowledge is only...
The English language learners’ needs changes from time to time. In Malaysia, the focus of English teaching and learning has shifted from accuracy to fluency; the effective usage of the language. Learners are expected to use the English language in daily communication and to learn the workplace English language communication skill. Due to this deman...
Graduate employability has become more rigid nowadays whereby industries demand not only for graduates’ academic
qualifications but also their ability to communicate in English. However, there is hardly any exit test instrument available in
higher learning institutions that could gauge the graduates’ communicative competence before graduation. Thus...
Experiencing studying in one’s home country might be different from experiencing it in a host country. Hence, to help Japanese students who participate in the two-week Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) ESL summer school programme achieve their goals to better communicate in English and to experience an academic life in UTM, many in-class and out-...
This paper is our attempt to address the issue of industry expectations of the speaking ability of prospective graduates through a study involving graduating students and workplace professionals. Information regarding oral tasks, minimum standards and quality expected from new graduate employees were gathered through interviews and discussions with...
Ascertaining appropriate focus in exit test development is crucial to ensuring accurate measurement of expected competencies for the workplace and giving equal opportunity to deserving candidates. The Test of English Communication Skills (TECS) which attempts to measure graduating students’ exit proficiency in the contexts they might be employed is...
em>Corrective feedback (CF) is an inevitable teaching strategy carried out by educators, especially in an English Language classroom. Past studies have shown that corrective feedback is effective; however, indirect corrective feedback seems to have a variety of issues that has caused it to be unsuccessful. Some studies found that one of the setback...
Constructing literature review is an integral part of writing a proposal or research report. In order to conjure up literature review, student writers need to conduct readings on pertinent previous studies and situate their study among the previous studies. This paper aims at exploring the e-tutors’ or content instructors' pedagogical practices in...
Exit tests to measure and inform new graduates of their oral and written communicative abilities are non-existent. This paper is our attempt to determine the oral construct of the exit test through a study involving graduating students and workplace professionals. Information regarding oral tasks, minimum standards and quality expected from new gra...
This paper examines the role of higher education in developing social entrepreneurship in Malaysia. Higher education institutions are social industries. They prepare important social capital for the society. Presently, the concept of social entrepreneurship is becoming popular all over the world. In response to this trend, the higher education has...
Teachers have been said to be the backbone that will determine the future of the country and the success of Malaysia’s plan to be a developed nation by the year 2020. In order to improve students’ performance in schools, teachers are required to be ‘innovative, creative’ and prepared for any changes. Teachers, especially in the Malaysian context, a...
This study was carried out in order to identify students' perception and reaction towards receiving screencast video feedback to their writings. A total of 22 second-year tertiary level students at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) were chosen to participate in this qualitative study. Students were asked to engage in writing the first two chapter...
This study explores the use of language learning contracts as a strategy to promote learner autonomy among ESL learners. The study investigates learners’ experience in using the learning contracts and the extent to which the contracts could be used to develop learners’ ability to become autonomous language learners. Qualitative data, gleaned from t...
There is agreement among language educators that the process of language teaching and learning should aim to develop autonomous language learners. While the advantages of autonomy seem to be quite obvious, fostering autonomy in practice can prove to be difficult for some language learners. This paper describes the use of learning contracts as a str...
A lecture should contain various forms of lecture language that could help students understand the flow of the lecture. Lecture language consists of expressions that mark the topic and plan of a lecture, and/or expressions that signal a new or transition of ideas. Currently, a spoken academic corpus of Malaysian engineering lectures (MASE corpus) i...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of students and lecturers towards the Self-Access English Language Learning (SAELL) approach and programme at a tertiary institution in Malaysia, i.e. the Discovery Institution. In this study, the students' and lecturers' beliefs and attitudes, views on the '4ELL approach, and views on va...