A Case Study of Communicative Language Learning in Teaching Writing in a Rural School Environment

The case study was done at a rural school in Simpang Renggam, Johor. The study aims to identify the effects of using Communicative Language Learning (CLL) on students’ writing skills. CLL is one of the methods commonly used by teachers to teach English at school. This is due to its non-threatening way between the teacher as a counselor and the students as clients. The researchers interviewed the teacher and from the interview, CLL is commonly used. Thus, the researchers also analyzed five essays from each student and identify if they manage to write throughout the whole year of learning using CLL. The results are discussed in the latter section of the paper.

The Influence of Leadership, Organization Behavior, Compensation, And Work Discipline on Employee Performance in Non-Production Departments PT. Team Metal Indonesia

This research is to get information about leadership, organization behavior, compensation, work discipline and four factors to employee performance in Non-Production Department PT. Team Metal Indonesia. This research used a questionnaire for 94 respondents and used SPSS version 20. This research is quantitative research, statistics analysis. Multiple Linear Regression method with quantitative analysis. Based on SPSS data analysis, the researcher got the result Multiple Linear Regression analysis to leadership (X1) is 2.071 with significant 0.041, organization behavior (X2) is 0.817 with significant 0.416, compensation (X3) is -0.726 with significant 0.470 and work discipline (X4) is 2.985 with significant number 0.004. Result of the simultaneous test (F test) 8.083. Conclusion for this research are first hypothesis leadership has influence to employee performance, second hypothesis organization behavior has influence on employee performance but not significant, third hypothesis compensation has influence to employee performance but not significant, fourth hypothesis work discipline has partial influence to employee performance and last hypothesis that these four variables (leadership, organization behavior, compensation, and work discipline) have simultaneous influence on employee performance

Relationship between Psychological Capital and Work Engagement

This study investigated the influence of psychological capital on work engagement among employees in a corporate company. 200 respondents from one of the corporate companies in Johor were involved as the sample for this study. Data obtained from the respondents were analyzed into descriptive statistical analysis to analyze the demographic data of respondents, level of psychological capital and level of work engagement. Finding from this study shows that the level of psychological capital among employees is high. As well as the level of work engagement. Interestingly, there is a correlation between psychological capital and work engagement found in this study. Future studies should explore more about another factor that could influence the relationship and offering a more comprehensive understanding of psychological capital in the Malaysian context.

Private Preschool Teachers’ Competencies in Early Identification of Children at Risk of Learning Disabilities

Not only education is important in developing one’s intellectual and personal quality, but also an influential factor in seeking employment. Therefore, education is even more important for disabled individuals, as it enables them to read and write, communicate, make decisions and most importantly be employed. However, Dr. Mullai Ramaiah stated that the current Malaysian education system does not only lack in early screening, but also teachers who are equipped to teach and handle children with special needs (Arukesamy, 2017). Therefore, this current study intends to investigate the competency of preschool teachers in identifying children who are at risk of any learning disabilities (LD). This was done by administering a questionnaire survey to examine teachers’ knowledge of some common learning disabilities that usually affects preschool children. In this research, the relationship between teachers’ competency and teacher’s education level has been investigated. Findings from the data analysis indicated that the level of teacher’s competency in identifying children at risk is relatively low. It was revealed, a majority of general preschool teachers do not have any knowledge or acquired minimal knowledge in identifying children who are at risk of an LD. Findings also show that there was a significant difference in competencies between teachers of different levels of education. Finally, it was found teachers’ experience does not contribute to their knowledge in identifying children at risk of LD.

The Mediating Effect of Trust on the Relationship between Psychological Contract and Psychological Employment Contract Breach. A Pilot Test.

Employees always expect their employers to fulfil the promises according to the conditions embedded in the employment contract being the factor binding them together, because when the employer fail to meet up with the promises made, it results to psychological employment contract breach. Thus, it has become crucial for employers to uphold prior promises made to employees for the purpose of reciprocated gestures from the employees leading to increased motivation and performance in the organizations. This paper used little number of sample data in examining psychological contract, trust and psychological employment contract breach in Nigeria public universities. More so, it employ the use of SPSS (Version 24) to examine the reliability and cronbach alpha of the measurement instruments, as well as the content and face validity. Academicians and experts were used in the instrument assessment and the pilot study result revealed that the instruments are reliable with evidence of reasonable regularity.

Learning and Facilitation (PdPc) Islamic Education in Industrial Revolution 4.0

A challenge that usually occurred in the education system nowadays is to adapt to learning and facilitating(PdPc) for facing the upcoming industrial revolution 4.0. Industrial Revolution 4.0 give big impacts to teachers to develop a group of students that have high skills, critical thinking, and emotional wellbeing. Islamic education teachers need to take action based on industrial revolution 4.0, creative and innovative using any media and sources to produce interesting (PdPc).This writing for discussing PdPc of Islamic Education that relevant to the concept of industrial revolution 4.0 by adapting Learning Skills of 21st Century, authentic learning, soft skills, and Critical Thinking Skills(HOTS).It also discusses of challenge that teachers faced in running the Islamic Education learning towards industrial revolution 4.0.

Enhancing Learning Process using Double-Loop Theory in Purchasing Process of Healthcare Organization Toward Cutting Unnecessary Costs.

The reports show that America is currently paying around 17.9% of the national annual budget on expenses of health care services with expecting to be raised of up to 19.6% in 2021, same with other developed and developing countries. This makes alarming and pushes our look again of the way of management of the operations of health care systems, especially when the increased costs are also accompanied by not satisfied or poor health care results. The topic of this paper addresses an understudied and essential element that can improve the learning process by using Double-Loop Learning Theory (by Argyris & Schon) in Purchasing process of the healthcare organizations, which will be added value to reduce the unnecessary costs especially that most of the public healthcare organizations are subject to shrinkage in their annual budget. This paper looks to the Essential cornerstone of learning in the process of decision making, and will examine how efficient and practical will be the strategies of behavior in this specialty involve share of organization power with any staff who has the skills and capabilities, and with any member of the organization who is competent in to be involved in decision making process or action implementation, in any defined task, or taking control of the environment within the organization.

Incorporating Tarsia to Foster Student Collaboration in the Mathematics Classroom

It is evident that we will be able to retain and apply more knowledge into practice if we have spent more time in reviewing and practicing. Active student practice and consistent review are the key components of mastery learning. However, in Mathematics teaching, some of the commonly used instructional approaches such as “Practice on the blackboard” and “Assignment of homework” contradict the above mentioned key elements of content mastery. In view of this, our study aims to examine the effectiveness of an interactive activity, Tarsia. Tarsia allows students to elicit the characteristics of fun and playfulness while ensuring enough practices are obtained. Our results have shown that students view Tarsia as an interesting activity which enables them to develop new knowledge as well as promoting collaborative skills among the team members. Collaboration, is one of the four 21st century skills proposed by National Education Association (NEA) as the important skills to possess in order to succeed in the constantly changing 21st century.

The Effect of Using The Manual of Collaborative Teaching Approach to Mastering the Basic Standard of Writing Malay Language

The study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of the Collaborative Teaching Approach Manual (CTAM) on the mastery of the basic standard of literacy writing Malay language level one. The study was conducted by quasi-experiment using CTAM in teaching and facilitating. This study was conducted in Primary School in Pasir Gudang district which involved a sample of 70 students in year two. The two teachers involved were Remedial Teacher and Malay Teacher in this study. The t-test is used to test the hypothesis of the study. The findings showed that there was a significant difference to the experimental group using CTAM in achieving the overall basic standard of literacy writing Malay language students. The findings show that the use of CTAM is able to increase the level of literacy mastery more effectively to the pupils.

Impact of Personality Traits and Paternalistic Management Style on Job Performance of Employees in Pakistan

Different personalities and management style affect the performance of the employee. The study aims to investigate the impact of personality traits on the job performance. The five personality traits are self-esteem, openness to experience, extraversion and emotional stability. The study also explores the relationship between paternalistic management style and the job performance. A purposive sample of 199 respondents from telecommunication Sector of Pakistan is selected for the study. The result reveals that personality traits of extraversion, optimism and emotional stability and management style of paternalistic approach positively and significantly relates to employee’s job performance.