Suo Yan Ju

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior Lecturer at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of voice recording activities in improve undergraduate language students’ oral fluency in Mandarin as a foreign language. The data collected for this study from 44 year two undergraduate Level three Mandarin learners in semester 1 2016/2017 participated Online questionnaire, and data co...

The health crisis of COVID-19 has forced many countries around the world to close schools, colleges, and universities. Malaysia's high education administration announced that teaching and learning would be fully online for universities starting from the 1st of June till the end of 2020. This short and long-term disruption shocked many students and...

Communication strategies are important in helping L2 learners to communicate successfully when they are faced with a problem in speech production. This study looked at one of the components in Communication Competence, i.e strategy competence or the use of Communication Strategies (CS) in oral interactions among Middle Eastern students and counter...

Mandarin Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (MFLAS) is an adapted scale designed to measure anxiety among Mandarin foreign language learners. The scale has been validated in two public universities in the United States; however, the validity and reliability of the scale in an Asian context has remained uncertain. Therefore, this study aims to fill this...

Background and Purpose: Plagiarism is considered an epidemic and a complex problem faced by many students, lecturers and researchers at higher institutions across the globe. This study investigates the causal relationships between the predictors of Plagiarism on the one hand and the intention to plagiarize on the other. It also aims to study the ro...

The significant research has been conducted on similarities and differences in back-channel communication across languages such as Japanese and English. Recently, there has been a growing interest in examining back-channel communication between speakers of different target languages. However, the back-channel use between Mainland Chinese and Ma...

Professional life skills stand as crucial factors contributing significantly to undergraduates’ academic and employability. Despite their paramount importance, numerous studies have found that undergraduates lack professional skills such as communication and teamwork. This study aimed to identify the challenges in employing professional life skills...

Self-efficacy is one of the aspects of human behaviours related to performance in social cognitive theory. It has been studied in social sciences, education, and languages. There are a variety of self-efficacy scales available in the English and French languages to test one’s self-belief in their ability to learn the target language. To date, no s...

This study aimed to explore the effect of anxiety and self-efficacy on class performance in Arabic language online classes. This study used a quantitative research approach, and the data was collected through a survey instrument administered to 148 first-year Arabic learner students enrolled in an Arabic language online class. The data were analyse...

When imagining the ideal classroom, most teachers strive for engagement. To know if learners are engaged in their learning, teachers need to know if the learners get on with their tasks, be attentive in class, complete their assignments and actively participate in class activities. In contrast, learners feel relaxed and energetic and enjoy learning...

This empirical study attempts to investigate the causal relationships between the predictors of online learning readiness and its effects on learning engagement and perceived teaching quality. In other words, the study aims to explore the direct relationship between goal orientation and perceived teaching quality, on the one hand, and the students"...

Each language has its own rules and pattern and a certain tendency. Language games are the rules of language for a particular purpose. Nawal Sa'dawi uses denotative meaning as criticism and disagreement about existing social phenomena. Therefore, this study aims to determine the form of language games in the book "al-Mar'ah wa al-Jins" by Nawal Sa'...

Attitude plays a fundamental role in the learning process of foreign languages. It has recently gotten much attention from first and second-language researchers. Previous studies have indicated that learners showed a positive attitude towards learning Mandarin. Limited studies investigated the correlations between language learning attitude and cou...

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has gained more prominence in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) since its initiation in the 1980s. In Malaysia, a country where English is its second language, EAP is widely taught in many tertiary institutions. This is due to its main aim which is to focus on the communicative skills needed for academ...

As the queen of the family, the wife is a determinant of household harmony who understands every detail of her domestic realm. But in fact, several social traditions and norms under the guise of religion limit the space for wives to move in their palaces. This study aims to reveal Husein Muhammad's thoughts on domestic rights in the household and t...

Psychology plays a significant role in people’s everyday life. The success and failure people encounter every single day most rely on our daily psychological well-being. As such people might suffer from certain psychological issues, which on some occasions influence their everyday work. Mental variables such as self-efficacy and anxiety can cause p...

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has gained more prominence in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) since its initiation in the 1980s. In Malaysia, a country where English is its second language, EAP is widely taught in many tertiary institutions. This is due to its main aim which is to focus on the communicative skills needed for academ...

The COVID-19 outbreak has significantly affected various activities worldwide, including education, leading to a major crisis of transferring all institutions to online learning via various educational platforms. When this happens, countless issues have arisen as everybody is adapting to the transitional phase of the traditional classroom to online...

This research aimed to determine the implementation's effectiveness as supporting and inhibiting factors of Chomsky's Transformational Linguistic Theory in Writing Skill implementation. The data were collected through interviews, observations, and tests. The results of this study are: 1) the researchers obtained the difference in scores between the...

This research aimed to determine the implementation's effectiveness as supporting and inhibiting factors of Chomsky's Transformational Linguistic Theory in Writing Skill implementation. The data were collected through interviews, observations, and tests. The results of this study are: 1) the researchers obtained the difference in scores between the...

The economic globalization and the implementation of the "One Belt and One Road" initiative directly reflected the urgent needs of Arabic language talents. As a result, many universities and colleges opened Arabic for economic and trade negotiations (AETN). This course aims to cultivate such interdisciplinary talents in the Arabic language. However...

Vocabulary is the key to make communication possible, learners need to acquire adequate vocabulary to help them to communicate appropriately with the target language. to learn Chinese, a foreign learner must have a grasp of a large vocabulary sufficient for communication. This quantitative study examined the potential relationship between foreign l...

Cooperative learning is considered as one of important approach of learning acquisition and skills acquirement. It is firmly believed that the approach enhancing students' academic achievements, skills and also helping them in social interaction and human relation. Hence, this research attempts to explore the effectiveness of cooperative learning a...

Quizizz is an online assessment tool as a fun multiplayer classroom activity that allows all students to practice together with their computer, Smartphone, and IPad. The main purpose of this research is to evaluate the effective interest of students in Arabic class by implement Quizizz as game-based learning in the Arabic classroom of Sultan Idris...

Utilizing suitable Teaching methods to teach languages, especially to teach Arabic language for non-native speakers is not only can make students more concentrate on their study, but also helps teachers to move the class more smoothly. Even though there are a lot of researches already discussed about this issue, but no research concerned about teac...

This research aims to investigate the Perception of lecturers in Malaysia toward implement of cooperative learning in the Arabic class. A total of 30 lecturers were randomly selected from 3 Malaysian universities; namely UPSI, IIUM, and USIM and self-reported instruments were distributed for data collection. The data were collected using questionna...

COVID 19 has totally changed our lifestyle, as well as the style of education of teaching and learning. Because of COVID19, almost everything must move on by online technology. This research was focused on WECHAT asaTechnology innovation which is employed in teaching Arabic for Public Chinese Muslim Adults duringCOVID-19 Pandemic Movement Control O...

Teaching foreign languages for communication purposes is considered to be the priority in updating high education in Islamic Science University of Malaysia. The ability to communicate in other languages is becoming an integral part of professional competence of any specialist. In the frame of the limited class hours new methodological teaching appr...

Quizizz is an online assessment tool as a fun multiplayer classroom activity that allows all students to practice together with their computer, Smartphone and I Pad. The main purpose of this research is evaluating the effectively interesting of students for Arabic class by implement of Quizizz as a game based learning in the Arabic classroom of Sul...

The Chinese language is a unique language that has its pronunciation (Pinyin) and written form (Chinese Characters). To understand the Chinese vocabulary, one should be able to know its pronunciation, shapes, and meaning. It is not easy to memories three components of Chinese vocabulary at once. Without learning Chinese characters one cannot deep l...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of voice recording activities in improve undergraduate language students’ oral fluency in Mandarin as a foreign language. The data collected for this study from 44 year two undergraduate Level three Mandarin learners in semester 1 2016/2017 participated Online questionnaire, and data co...

Cooperative learning is a teaching strategy that can help students to be successful in academic achievement and skills, as well as can assist the students to enhance the social interaction and human relation; however, this research explored the cooperative learning strategy in teaching Arabic for non native speakers, and will show the experiences f...

This research investigates the Arabic Teachers’ training and the effect of their work success, a case study of Sultan Idris Education University Malaysia (UPSI). The study will use mixed methods between quantitative which use questioners that will distribute among students at UPSI those who studying and was studied Arabic language as their medium.....

Communication strategies are important in helping L2 learners to communicate successfully when they are faced with a problem in speech production. This study looked at one of the components in Communication Competence, i.e strategy competence or the use of Communication Strategies (CS) in oral interactions among Middle Eastern students and counter...