CONTRIBUTING TO PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE AMONG CHINESE STUDENTS IN JOHOR BAHRU BY OOI CHOON LEAN MP061113 EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 581225-07-5846 SUPERVISOR ASSOC PROF DR AZIZI HJ YAHAYA ii ABSTRACT There has been an ongoing debate about the importance of the English language. Employers are lamenting that new graduates these days lack communicative proficiency in English. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors which contribute to English proficiency in Chinese
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restroom. Kids also don’t get enough exercise and it makes them hyper during class. They don’t get enough communication with others and it won’t improve their social ability‚ which proves that recess is really important and leads me to conclude that we need longer recesses. Getting longer recesses will not only benefit ourselves‚ but it will also benefit others. This includes teachers because they are always complaining how kids don’t use the restroom during recess. I believe that this is because kids
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ONLY. 10 mark each. Each essay must contain approximately 500 words). 1. Gadgets‚ examples are smartphones‚ iPad and tab has destroyed communication among friends and family. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 2. To prepare students for the 21st Century do you think Malaysia is ready for the changes of student’s textbooks to electronic medium? Discuss your opinions. 3. Many societies believe that the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental
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As to not provide further conflict between the Southerners and Northerners‚ the Southerners should be considered citizens and be allowed the right to vote‚ for they were once part of the union. If we were to take their rights as citizens away‚ this would surely cause rebellion in the future‚ even if the Southerners are at fault for the Civil War. The best way to leave this incident behind us is to revive the relation between the two sides and have no discrimination. However‚ there should be a slight
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knowing that he will always be there when I need lifts my spirit. Minister George M. Howard Jr. told me that “It’s not about who you know‚ it’s about who knows you because there will always be someone watching you”. My dreams and aspirations are to be so successful so that I’m not dependent on anyone else. Ever since I was little I have wanted to be in charge of everyone and everything. To in charge‚ I first have to obtain the knowledge and in order to do that I have to go to college. I have seen
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how can we decide? If we follow the normative ethics and the golden rule completely tells us: we should do to others what we would want others to do to us‚ in other word‚ what we should do to others what we would want others to do to us. Ok lets back to my question‚ Since I do not want any one going to kill me‚ so I should not kill any one. Since we are the top of food chain‚ we are murderers‚ because we eat meat everyday and even if we have not killed the animals by our self‚ we are indirectly
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DO ENGINEERS NEED ETHICS? Ethics are moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting of an activity. Charles Fleddermann describes engineering ethics as “a body of philosophy indicating the way engineers should conduct themselves in their professional capacity.”[1]. Ethics and morals work in tandem in the engineering workplace which contributes to order harmony and expectations. Ethics can also be viewed as values. Values are embedded in our characters and last longer and are
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not make the same mistakes in the future. We are able to learn about war by the images that are presented to us. We take news and history books about war to create this image of how we see it. War can be looked at in the sense of very heroic and glorified while also be presented with the truth with the terrible events of what has happened and the loss of lives. With war we tend to not think of it affecting a part of science. War also plays a part in laws. We would not be having war if disagreements
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1. Why do we have states? Would it be possible for people to live without them? If they disappeared in the future‚ what would replace them? We have states so that the general public can be protected from external‚ as well as internal threats. States have armies to protect citizens from other countries who might invade or who pose some other sort of threat. States also have some sort of police force to protect citizens from criminals who wish to do them some kind of harm. The social contract theory
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right? Why? It’s human nature for someone still struggling with emotional mastery and self esteem issues to ruminate on or even gloss over a failure. Besides getting stuck in feeling badly‚ they are missing so much good feedback because they don’t assess what went wrong with the intentions of learning so that they can do better next time! Learning from your failures can and should be as informational and productive as learning from your successes. But only with this caveat: You need to examine
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