Zurina Khairuddin

• B.Ed TESL, M.Ed TESL; PhD in Applied Linguistics
• Sultan Zainal Abidin University

This paper investigates how language is used in online media to frame the crisis surrounding undocumented immigrants in Malaysia amid a global pandemic. A 25-minute Al Jazeera documentary, “Locked Up in Malaysia’s Lockdown”, was examined following Bucholtz and Hall’s (2005) selected principles of positionality, relationality, and indexicality. The...

Background and Purpose: The success of the government’s aspiration into developing holistic Malaysian students not only lies in what has been going in today’s classroom but also outside classroom in which the fundamental process of seeking for knowledge, skills and competencies. Holistic identity is not a construct that is inherited, nor does it re...

With the wave of the pandemic in the recent years resulting in a sudden shift from offline learning to online learning sessions, assessments had been revised to adapt to the changes. This study was conducted with the aim of eliciting the lecturers’ and students’ perspectives on the difficulties faced by them in the implementation of online oral pre...

Assessment practices offer learners the opportunity to practise and prepare for the actual assessments. Coupled with feedback, this practice is intended to assist them in improving their speaking skills particularly in the language. Providing feedback to the learners for assessment practices has become a vital element in the newly revised course li...

In responses to the demand of the twenty-first century learning, the Indonesian government stipulated the 2013 curriculum in order to prepare students to be more productive, creative, and innovative. The presence of English language subjects in secondary schools aims to develop students' communicative competence and instill the nation character’s n...

The advancement of education in the twenty-first century is now confronted with significant challenges. Accordingly, it is essential to train students to think critically. Moreover, thinking creatively and critically will have a significant impact on preparing future generations. This study was conducted as a result of observations revealed that st...

The most challenging skill perceived by students when they learn the English language is the writing skill. This recent study would like to identify the rhetorical strategies used by good writers and poor writers. Two participants were selected, and written essays was the instrument employed for this study. Both participants were required to write...

The current demand of education has changed the teaching and learning processes from traditional face-to-face learning to online distance learning (ODL). This study aims to explore students' readiness in experiencing ODL. This study utilised quantitative approach to obtain the data. The instrument used was questionnaire with seven sections. The que...

Background and Purpose: Coming from different social and academic cultures, students may exhibit perceptions which are in contrast to the convention of the targeted culture. Hence, this study aims to explore how first-year Malaysian students perceive their interactions in UK seminars. Methodology: Employing qualitative research method, nine Malaysi...

Second language camps are popular among campers for first-hand experiences with language. This study identifies levels of risk-taking among Diploma of Teaching English as Second Language (TESL) students across gender and creativity. Ninety-three students participated in a twelve-day language camp, and by the end of the camp, they were required to p...

Through the use of Malaysian English (ME), Malaysians construct their identities. The objective of the study is to explore why the Malaysian students in the UK (MSUK) and Malaysia (MSM) used ME when they were in seminars and what it means to their academic identity. The data was collected by observing their participation in seminar discussions. Eig...

This study investigated the students' perceptions of Classroom Assessment Practices (CAPs) in Malaysian Higher Education Institutions (MHEIs). The objectives of this study were to explore students' perceptions towards CAPs and investigate if there is any relationship among the students' perceptions towards the six scales of CAPs. There were 109 par...

Arabic Language learners, specifically the debaters, should be competent in their performance of the language. There are several ways to master Arabic and one of them is through debate. This study attempted to identify the competency of Arabic debaters in their performance through Arabic Language Debate. This study used the qualitative research des...

This paper is a study of the reading trends and perceptions of Muslim Malaysian undergraduate students towards Islamic English websites as pedagogical materials in English language classrooms. Data was collected through a set of questionnaires to 180 students from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and Universiti Sultan ZainalAbid...

Intercultural communication is applied for communicating with each other among the different cultures and traditions. It highlighted the problems which faced by different communities and organizations, the problems which are natural to the person like when the people face to new culture or tradition even the religious issues. So intercultural commu...

Reading interests is important in enhancing students’ success in school and out of it. Hence, students need to have high reading interests. The purposes of this study were to identify students’ reading interests in reading second language materials and to examine the differences in students’ reading interests based on genders. This study was carrie...