Nor Hashimah Hashim

Albukhary International University · School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Due to the importance of education for sustainable heritage preservation, it is imperative to pay attention to how heritage is taught in the education system. As a multicultural country with a rich cultural heritage, Malaysia is home to four world heritage sites. This paper investigates Malaysia’s new primary school curriculum to determine to what...

A study to explore the implementation of digital picture among history teacher trainees was carried out. This study is a case study which employed qualitative method using observation, interview and document analysis. The participants were selected using purposive sampling which involved four teacher trainees who were in their fourth year of Bachel...

Though the designers may claim otherwise, the vast majority of reading comprehension instruments measure a student’s mastery of specific skills, such as decoding or phonological awareness, rather than their ability to extract meaning from text. This article is the third in a series in which the researchers examine two specific Malaysian reading com...

This paper is part of a bigger research project and focuses on issues related to soft skills and teaching professional training. The research project is on developing an integrated soft skills training module for teacher education program in Malaysian Public Universities. The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent of soft skills that has be...

Soft skills complement hard skills and have a significant impact on the ability of teachers to do their job and on their employability. Soft skill components acquired by future holistic human capital are communicative skills, critical thinking and problem solving skills, team work skill, life-long learning and management of information, entrepreneu...

This study explored the Beginning Preschool Teachers’ (BPT) teaching skills that are related to the preparation of lesson plan and implementation of lesson. Data were collected through interviews, observations, and document analysis. The data were analyzed by means of qualitative approach to produce appropriate themes for the BPT teaching skills. T...

Comprehension skill is one of the main skills which need to be acquired by primary school students. In the primary school, most of the Years 4 to 6 students is expected to achieve the necessary level of reading fluency based on the prescribed syllabus. Research finding on Year 5 students indicated that they were able to read fluently but could not...

This paper discusses the language vitality of the Sihan or Sian community in Sarawak. Vitality of language refers to the ability of a language to live or grow. The language vitality of the Sihans was investigated using a field survey, observation and interviews. The output of the field survey was analysed using the nine criteria of language vitalit...

Studies show that the single most important factor determining the quality of the education a child receives is the quality of his teacher. The aim of this study is to explore the preschool teacher quality teaching in lesson preparation and implementation in Penang state, Malaysia. A preschool teacher should be able to apply systematic methods of p...

Assessment is defined as various methods used at different level of teaching which include questions and answers, observation and tests. This paper will discuss the findings of a study which was conducted to ascertain Malaysian preschool teachers' methods for assessing children learning in the classrooms. The population of this study is preschool t...

This paper discusses preschool teachers instructions by looking at its innovativeness and creativity. The data concerning preschool teachers instruction were identified through a survey using self-report questionnaire. Purposive sampling technique was employed and 477 preschool teachers responded. In this study, teachers instruction focus on three...

Abstrak Kertas kerja ini menghuraikan aspek vitaliti bahasa dalam salah sebuah komuniti bahasa peribumi di Malaysia yang dianggap minoriti, iaitu komuniti Sihan di Belaga, Sarawak. Konsep vitaliti diperkenalkan dalam kajian pada lewat 70-an untuk merujuk kepada proses linguistik dan psikologi yang mendasari perilaku berbahasa antara etnik (Harwood...

This paper discusses how the language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) support the science process skills among the Year One pupils in Malaysian primary school. The science process skills in this paper focuses on basic science process skills such as observing, classifying, communicating, predicting, making inferences, and using spa...