This study examines the effects of human needs based on the integration of needs as stipulated in Maqasid Syariah and
Reading is an important learning area which ESL learners should master for interaction and academic purposes. However, ESL students are facing many difficulties in English reading skills particularly contextual clues. Hence, this product aims to ease the teaching and learning of inferring word meaning – contextual clues, to enrich the students’ vocabulary bank and to motivate the students to engage in reading. The challenge in teaching contextual clues is that the current technology-integrated teaching method has lost its way to cater students’ interest in reading. This product is believed to allow the students to enjoy meaningful language classes. The emergence and usage of PowToon in today’s classroom has helped to ease the process of teaching reading skills to the students. The features of this product include captivating graphics, lively animation, concise content and attractive background music. This product is user friendly as it is accessible to everyone; online and offline. İn addition, it is suitable to be used in language classes with limited technology support. Thus, this evolution in teaching pedagogy will encourage paperless teaching aids in language classrooms.
Academic performance is an important indicator of a student's achievement in accomplishing educational objectives specifically for learning and teaching. Many factors have been linked to academic performance; however, there are inconclusive results over as to whether individual factor contributes the most effect. In pursuit of this, the study aims to decipher students' academic performance in relation to learning and teaching preference approaches. 324 sets of a questionnaire were randomly sent to first year undergraduate accounting students. From this amount, 263 students responded, contributing to 81.2 percent rate of response. The study adapted the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST) questionnaire that identify three learning approaches (deep, strategic and surface), two teaching preference approaches (deep and surface) and academic performance achievements. Data were analysed using Sequential Equation Modelling (SEM) with Smart Partial Least Square (PLS) version two. Results indicate that learning approaches had a significant effect on academic performance in which strategic had the most effect, followed by deep and surface. In contrast, teaching preference approaches did not have any effect on academic performance. An understanding of the magnitude of effect of learning and teaching preference approaches at the early phase would assist the students, educators and institutions to optimize the best approach and eventually expedite Malaysian education quality to be on par with other developed nations in pursuit of academic excellence.
Scholars in language learning have recently taken an interest in self-perceived communicative competence (SPCC) and demotivation, albeit the relationship between these notions is rarely investigated. In Malaysia, many educators have encountered students who are unwilling to use their second language for communication and the reasons behind it could be determined by different demotivating factors. Thus, the association between the students' SPCC and demotivation was explored in this present study, specifically in the English language classes. A total of 250 diploma students of Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Kelantan (UiTMCK) participated in the study in which the data were collected via SPCC and a demotivation questionnaire. Notably, SPCC was negatively associated with demotivation based on the Pearson Correlation Coefficient. The study’s outcomes showed that as part of the effort to minimise the English as a Second Language (ESL) students' demotivation, educators are encouraged to develop the students' competency in communicating.
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