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An effective reading comprehension process demands a strategy to enhance the cognitive ability to digest text information in the effort to elicit meaning contextually. In addition, the role of emotions also influences the efficacy of this process, especially in narrative text comprehension. This quasi-experimental study aims to observe students' performance in the Reading Comprehension Test resulting from Emotional Literacy-Based Reading Comprehension Strategy (ELBRCS), which is a combination of cognitive and affective strategies. This study involved 90 students, whereby 45 students were clustered in the Experimental Group and received the ELBRCS intervension. The remaining 45 students were placed in the Control Group and underwent the conventional strategy (prevalent classroom method).The students' reading comprehension performance was measured using the Reading Comprehension Test (RCT). The findings show that the experimental group received a higher score than the control group for RCT. The intervention has successfully increased student's Reading Comprehension from literal comprehension to higher levels of comprehension i.e. inferential, evaluative and appreciative levels, as indicated by Barret's Taxonomy.

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Negotiation is something that we do all the time. Negotiation is usually considered as a compromise to settle an argument or issue to benefit ourselves as much as possible. Communication is always the link that will be used to negotiate the problem whether it is face-to-face, on the telephone or in writing. Negotiation is not always between two people, it can involve several members from two parties. Children will negotiate among themselves everyday. They will negotiate when they faced with conflict. There are ways in helping children resolve conflict in communication and therefore negotiation plays an important role. The objectives of this paper are to identify the conflict pattern in communication and the use of negotiation skills in resolving conflict in communication among primary school children. A class of 20 subjects from a school in Selangor, Malaysia was chosen to find out the conflict pattern in communication via negotiation skills. The research was carried out for 3 months with the help of the class teacher. It is found that children are able to resolve conflict in communication by the use of negotiation skills.

ABSTRAK  'Aku' merupakan kata ganti nama diri yang mempunyai perkaitan dengan aspek kebahasaan dan nilai kesantunan masyarakat Melayu. Penggunaan yang salah dan tidak mematuhi norma masyarakat Melayu dianggap kurang santun dalam berbahasa. Penggunaan tersebut sinonim dengan masyarakat di Sabah kerana amalan berbahasa ini ada kalanya menimbulkan kekeliruan dalam kalangan penyapa dan pesapa yang tidak mempunyai pengalaman berkomunikasi dengan masyarakat di Sabah. Hal ini demikian kerana masyarakat di Sabah menggunakan 'aku' bukan sahaja kepada pesapa yang berlainan status dan usia, bahkan juga terhadap orang yang baharu dikenali. Keadaan ini bukanlah menunjukkan ketidaksantunan dalam berbahasa tetapi lebih dipengaruhi oleh faktor budaya kerana penggunaannya ada kaitan dengan perbezaan penggunaan bahasa mengikut budaya. Oleh hal yang demikian, kajian penggunaan 'aku' dalam perbualan seharian masyarakat di Sabah khususnya di Lahad Datu dilakukan untuk mengenal pasti penggunaan 'aku' mengikut konteks dalam kalangan penyapa dengan pesapa dan juga untuk membincangkan kelainan penggunaannya dalam kalangan masyarakat di Sabah. Kaedah kualitatif digunakan sebagai pendekatan kajian, manakala data kajian dikumpul melalui kaedah pemerhatian. Komponen Komunikasi Saville-Troike (1991) pula dijadikan medium untuk menganalisis dapatan kajian. Hasil kajian mendapati penggunaan 'aku' dalam kalangan masyarakat di Lahad Datu mempunyai kelainannya yang tersendiri kerana terdapat unsur kesantunan, kekuasaan, keakraban, kemesraan dan kekitaan dalam penggunaannya. Dengan demikian, kajian yang dijalankan dapat menambah pengetahuan tentang budaya masyarakat berbahasa di Sabah untuk mengenal pasti corak interaksi sosial dalam masyarakat dan juga dapat membantu memahami serta memberikan gambaran penggunaan ‘aku’ dalam budaya masyarakat Melayu khususnya terhadap masyarakat di Lahad Datu.   ABSTRACT  ‘Aku’ is a form of pronoun that relates with the eloquency manner of linguistic in Malay community. Wrong usage of this form of pronoun which also contradicts the norm among Malay community is often regarded as constituting impoliteness in the context of communication. The usage of the word ‘aku’ is synonyms with the people in Sabah. However, this language practice sometimes caused confusion among those who has no experience communicating with the people of Sabah. This is because the people of Sabah use ’aku’ not only to people of different statuses and ages but also to people they have just met. This situation does not constitute impoliteness in engaging a conversation since this form of practice is influenced by diverse of language usage according to the culture. Therefore, a research on the usage of the word ‘aku’ in the daily conversation among Sabahan, particularly in Lahad Datu has been conducted in order to discuss comprehensively on the uniqueness of its usage among the community in Sabah. Qualitative method is applied in this research whereby the data is collected through observation method. The Component Communication of Saville-Troike (1991) is being relied as the basis in analysing the findings of the research. The finding shows that the usage of the word ‘aku’ among the community in Lahad Datu has its own uniqueness as there are diffusion elements of politeness, power, intimacy, warmth and sense of belonging in the context of a conversation. Thus, the research that has been conducted can enhance the knowledge on the culture of communication among Sabahan in identifying patterns of social interaction in society and also to help in understanding and illustrating the use of ’aku’ in Malay culture specifically, the community in Lahad Datu.

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