The educational community is in shambles as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pre-diploma students have particular challenges since they are unfamiliar with higher education, lack the tools necessary for efficient online distance learning, and are not academically driven. Pre-diploma UiTM students are primarily from low-income families. This aggravates problems with their online learning environment. University students must be independent learners due to the high demand for online education when the epidemic occurs. This study aims to look into 35 pre-diploma students' views on their autonomy in online English classes. The information was gathered near the end of the semester. Students asserted that their level of control over their online learning was minimal at the start of the semester, as was to be expected. They spent weeks trying to take control of their academic lives. The students discovered, however, that by the seventh week, they had more control over their online learning, indicating that they were beginning to understand what was happening in their virtual English classrooms. Once they understood that this is the only way to learn during the pandemic, they felt more at ease with their liberty in learning. This study also discovered that these brand-new undergrads positively embraced and adopted online learning as a novel method of training.
In the context of today’s media realities which is influenced by rich access to news and information from various media sources, many viewers are unaware that media often constructed its content to persuade individuals of a certain intended message. However, recent years have seen the declining trust towards the media, which contributes to public belief that media has no longer adhere to its traditional media ethics. This study aims to investigate the biases and persuasion strategies as utilised in media interviews. Investigation on the interpersonal meanings articulated by the interactants was carried out based on their Mood choices. The data were obtained from two transcriptions of television interviews on the death of Muammar Gaddafi. Questions which were employed using the WH- interrogatives was found to be more superior in subjects which are linked to the death of the said figure. This finding highlights the use of Mood choices by the interviewers as they wish to reduce the pressure on the interviewees. However, the usage of yes/no interrogatives was found to be more superior when discussing unimportant subjects. The result obtained from this research will give a clearer picture on the numerous linguistic tactics utilised by the media in persuading the public to affirm their political position which will witness the soar in the public’s obligation to choose without being coerced by the biasness employed by the media.
Tourism industry in Malaysia is being developed to be better thus, making Malaysia as one of the most attractive countries to visit. Many Village Stays in Malaysia are owned and managed by inexperienced personnel and have inefficient system. This makes local products and nearby tourist attractions not able to be advertised properly or are not made known to the public. So, the objectives of this project are to develop Village Stay Reservation and Management System that caters for the information of the local tourist attraction products and to evaluate Village Stay Reservation and Management System in terms of perceived ease of use. In order to achieve the objectives, this project develops the system using PHP programming language and tests the system of its functionality, usability and user acceptance. There are fifteen respondents who tested the system. A set of questionnaires was used to collect the data. The mean for user acceptance test is 3.77 while for user reaction in usability testing is 3.74. The respondents are satisfied with the system in terms of its functionality. In conclusion, this research has achieved the objectives. It is shown that the users can deal more effectively and efficiently when using this system. This system will reduce the workload of staffs when using an online system to monitor the reservation as well as attending to other chores.
Students are still using online resources in order to assist them with their studies during the post-pandemic period. In online language classes, online platforms are utilised as a tool for language learning, particularly in the development of speaking abilities. This study attempts to look into the difficulties encountered by a group of bachelor degree students when learning speaking skills in the English language through the usage of video conferencing. The information was gathered by utilising a set of questionnaires distributed among 102 bachelor degree students at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perlis Branch, Malaysia, towards the end of the semester after they had completed the speaking exercises that had been assigned to them. The use of video conferencing in teaching speaking skills to the students was found to pose a number of difficulties, including unfavourable environment, lack of ideas and vocabulary, lack of confidence, fear of making mistakes, and technological difficulties. The findings of this study may assist language instructors to choose the best online tool for speaking lessons.
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