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    Critical Discourse Analysis On The Representation Of The Orang Asli In The Media: A Comparative Study
    (2023-09)
    Wong, Ka Chun
    Research concerning the representation of the Orang Asli in the media has generally revealed representational patterns that revolve around pejorative and stereotypical depictions. Most of the existing research has mainly examined the community’s representation in mainstream news outlets whereas studies concerning alternative news outlets have received little attention. Thus, this study focuses on examining the representation of the Orang Asli by a comparison between the country’s most frequented mainstream (The Star) and alternative (Malaysiakini) news outlets from a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach. The news reports were examined using Fairlclough’s (1995b) Three-Dimensional Framework together with the integration of Halliday and Matthiessen’s (2014) Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and van Dijk’s (1998a) Theory of Ideology. A total of 12 news reports were selected from The Star and Malaysiakini respectively and were examined according to the three levels of analysis namely the micro (lexical and transitivity structures), meso (intertextuality), and macro levels (sociocultural practices and ideology) as outlined in Fairclough’s (1995b) framework. The findings at the micro and meso level show that the Orang Asli were portrayed to be traditional, dependent, problematic, and underdeveloped by both news outlets. This study also found that the positive actions of the authorities were emphasised whereas the negative characteristics of the Orang Asli were accentuated thus resulting in the ideological polarisation of “Us versus Them”. However, the findings also revealed that Malaysiakini did represent the voices of the Orang Asli more frequently as compared to The Star.
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    Nigerians’ Attitudes Towards The Imitation Of Received Pronunciation Accent In Nigerians’ News Reading
    (2023-09)
    Hussaini, Wakkai Hosanna
    Using explanatory sequential design of mixed-methods, this research investigated Nigerians’ attitudes towards the imitation of Received Pronunciation accent in Nigerians’ news reading. There have been scarce field-based studies conducted on Nigerians’ attitudes towards English in Nigeria. The few studies conducted on the field only looked at Nigerians’ attitudes towards Received Pronunciation without focusing on the Nigerians’ attitudes towards the imitation of Received Pronunciation accent in Nigerians’ news reading. Therefore, the Nigerians’ attitudes towards the imitation of Received Pronunciation accent in Nigerians’ news reading formed the object of this study, with the objective of evaluating both the inter-speaker and intra-speaker attitudes of Nigerians towards it. The questionnaire participants were 236, selected from the class of Nigerian public university lecturers. While the interview participants were 24, 14 drawn from the questionnaire participants and 10 from the Nigerian newsreaders on television. The study was conducted within the theoretical and conceptual frameworks of sociolinguistics and language attitude respectively. From the quantitative data, results showed that participants liked and preferred listening to the imitation of Received Pronunciation by Nigerians in news reading over other English accents used in news reading. Yet, for the sake of their identities, the participants disagreed that they imitate the Nigerian newsreaders’ accent.
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    Power Imbalance And Patriarchal Control In Alison Goodman'S Eon And Eona: A Feminist Reading
    (2016-02)
    Kamaruzaman, Nor Farah Anis
    This study comprises a feminist reading of Alison Goodman's Eon and its sequel Eona through a conceptual framework that consists of various feminist and psychological tools. The review of related literature reveals that the fantasy genre is largely neglected by scholars as the genre is deemed as trivial and insignificant, and most studies on the fantasy genre are more focused on classic fantasy literature. The literature review also reveals that studies in the fantasy genre mostly focus on young girls and women's representation that often mirrors gender stereotypes. This study aims to fill the lacuna caused by the neglect of studies on power imbalance and patriarchal control in the fantasy genre. Objectives of the study include revealing power imbalance between genders, exposing patriarchal control over women, and determining the strategies of resistance used by women in their struggle against power imbalance and patriarchal control in the selected texts. The findings reveal that there is an imbalance of power between genders, whereby men hold more important roles in society, cultural traditions benefit men more than women, and women are often unfairly and ill-treated. The findings also reveal that women are being oppressed and subjugated by patriarchy through the use of violence, power, social norms, cultural traditions, and law.
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    The Effect Of Task Based Flipped Classroom On Students’ Perceived Engagement And Performance In Narrative Essay Writing Among Cambodian High School Students
    (2023-06)
    Nhor Sanhei
    This study examines the effect of task-based flipped classrooms using video-based instruction on perceived engagement and writing performance for narrative essay writing among Cambodian high school students. Two modes of instruction, flipped classroom without tasks (FCoT) and flipped classroom with tasks (FCT), were applied for this purpose, where engagement was also evaluated based on perceived behavioural, emotional and cognitive engagement.
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    Sociocultural Factors Influencing The Willingness To Learn The Skills Of Translation Among Iranian Students
    (2022-12)
    Akbarimotlaq, Mohammadjavad
    The purpose of this study is to explore the sociocultural factors influencing Iranian professional translation learners’ WTLT (willingness to learn translation) to identify the sociocultural factors that influence WTLT and investigate their relationship, also to investigate the influence of age and gender on WTLT. This study adopts the mixed method approach that contains two phases. The data from the first phase, which is qualitative: FGD (Focus Group Discussion), informs the development of the second research instruments, questionnaire for the quantitative phase. The population of this study is 200 Iranian translation students. For the 1st phase, 20 participants were purposively selected to participate in the FGD. The data from the FGD were analyzed. Enthusiasm to translate, enthusiasm to translate technical text, enthusiasm to translate informal text, enthusiasm to translate scientific text, and enthusiasm to earn money from translation were the factors found influencing willingness to learn translation. The themes created were used to form the questionnaire. The next phase dealt with the validation of the designed questionnaire by employing exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling as confirmatory factor analysis. The WTLT questionnaire was distributed to 200 professional translation students that were selected based on convenient sampling technique and the Pearson-product moment correlation was used to determine whether there is a direct and significant relationship between the enthusiasm factors and willingness to learn translation. The results indicated a significant and positive correlation.