Ina Suryani Ab Rahim
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Ina Suryani Ab Rahim
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Ab Rahim, Ina Suryani
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E-4991-2011

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Learning styles: an exploratory study of foreign learners learning styles preferences at University Malaysia Perlis. a case study.

2010-11-12 , Sharmini Abdullah , Sharifah Anis Zarith Syed Dziauddin , Rozilawati Mahadi , Ina Suryani Ab Rahim

“Learners with a strong preference for a specific learning style may have difficulties in learning if the teaching style does not match with their learning style” Felder & Spurlin (1988) With this in mind, a study was conducted to investigate the learning styles of foreign students from University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) who took the Yemen Preparatory Programme as an effort to maximise the students’ English language learning potentials. This study is a preliminary report that aims to identify and categorize the learning styles of these international students. In other words, identify the learning style preferences of the students.The Index of Learning Styles (ILS) questionnaire developed by Felder and Soloman (2004) was adopted. The ILS questionnaire was based on Felder and Silverman's (1988) model and reported to be valid, reliable and suitable in identifying learners' learning styles (Felder and Spurlin, 2005). Results obtained would help in understanding the UniMAP Foreign students’ learning styles which would contribute in raising UniMAP’s English Language Instructors awareness of such styles especially in the development of course materials and pedagogy which is important in the learning and teaching process of the English Language to foreign learners.

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Challenges and opportunities of cybersecurity education for non-technical majors

2024-06 , Norlizawati Ghazali , Ina Suryani Ab Rahim , Syed Zulkarnain Syed Idrus

Cybersecurity is fast becoming a crucial area of study due to the advancement of digital technology. As cybersecurity impacts all digital technology users, there is a pressing need for educating users on this issue. Moreover, the risk of falling victim to cyber threats is far more eminent in non-technical background users. Thus, this study focuses on the need for cybersecurity education towards non-technical majors in university, as an effort to address this problem. Through analysis of previous literatures, this paper highlights the possible challenges and opportunities in teaching cybersecurity for non-technical majors. This could provide valuable insights into the digital literacy gap for non-technical majors. The relevance of this study lies in its potential to enhance cybersecurity awareness and promote a safer digital environment.

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Disruptions of Covid-19 pandemic on English literacy

2024 , Ina Suryani Ab Rahim , Nazifah Hamidun , Nor Hanim Awang @ Mohd Noor , Noazli Abu Bakar , Mariam Idris , Nor Khairi Ahmad

Illiteracy, which is the inability to read and write, can limit individuals' opportunities, reduce their quality of life, societies, and economies. Given the recent pandemic, movement control order was enforced at various phases due to COVID-19 and impacted learning due to school closures. This study aims to identify the impact of COVID-19 on English Literacy Among Primary School Students. A total of 800 students from 46 primary schools participated in this study. The students were selected based on the teachers’ class observation and reading evaluation. A literacy test consisting of six literacy skill was conducted individually by language teachers. Findings on literacy skills one to level six revealed that literacy skill two to six are alarming, suggesting illiteracy is rising. In conclusion, intervention is direly needed to uphold the good literacy record. The implication of the study is to warn on the rising of illiteracy at alarming rate due to Covid-19 quarantine. Further research is recommended to other population in describing how the pandemic has affected English literacy in different regions and countries.

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Improving aquisition of business vocabulary using Taboo word game

2024 , Aizan Yaacob , Mathevan Narayanan , Ina Suryani Ab Rahim , Patricia Michael , Yulianeta Yulianeta

Methods of teaching vocabulary in an ESL context are highly debatable and implicit. Having for-mal lesson or solely focusing on providing meaning and examples are among the conundrums that language educators must face. Thus, language game is commendable as it allows the students to practice or utilize the knowledge that they acquired in a non-traditional and interesting way. This study explores the effectiveness of Taboo Word Game (TWG) in improving business vocabulary of 23 private college students in one of the private colleges in Malaysia. It also explored students’ experiences in using TWG in learning business vocabulary and reports on the pre-post-tests results. Comparison of mean scores on both pre and post-tests was done are reported. The findings revealed that TWG helped to improve students’ vocabulary competency. The implication on vocabulary teaching is that even at the college level, games should be incorporated to boost students learning needs and preferences.

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Research trends on Pekasam as heritage food in Malaysia

2023-04-24 , Ina Suryani Ab Rahim , Noriha Basir , Mohamad Zaki Abdul Halim , Ali M.E.M. , Noor Asliza Abdul Rahim , Mohamad R.B.F.

Understanding heritage food is important and useful for planning of national identity conservation, gastronomy tourism marketing and food safety. However, research on heritage food is not uniform globally; it tends to be concentrated in specific areas or region, and thus would hinder our understanding of heritage food acceptance, marketability and sustainability. This study examined the trends in heritage food research, namely Pekasam over the past decade by analysing publication data from Scopus through Systematic Literature review method. In particular, this study focused on the countries in which the studies were done, the affiliation of the authors, the funding sponsor, the types of publication discipline area of research, and citation details. A total of 148 publications were examined. The results showed that research on heritage food of Pekasam is not only scarce, to such an extent a large number of the research published are in the discipline of agriculture, chemistry and engineering. Despite the small number of research publications on Pekasam, the citations on the existing publications have grown exponentially since 2017 indicating that Pekasam is a potential research topic in the area of heritage food.

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Using cross border collaboration project to encourage English language usage among Thai and Malaysian undergraduate students

2020-06 , Ina Suryani Ab Rahim , Eunice Aclan , Mohd Azrizal Mohd Salleh , Sareepa Je-Arwae

People often turn to a second language to communicate when the native language fails to be the medium of communication particularly in international collaboration communication. The second language of choice must be a language that is understood by the speaker and the listener. Correct language usage does leave a good impression in many circumstances but in many collaboration activities, the message matters more than the accuracy of the language use. This paper examines the English language usage among the participants from two universities during a collaborative project. Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) and Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya (RUTS) have conducted a collaborative project for their undergraduate students. In order to encourage the use of English language, the participants are restricted to non-Thai speaking for UniMAP students and nonMalay speaking for RUTS students; with exception for a few students who acted as mediators for emergency situations. The use of English language is reported based on the perspectives of the students which have been gathered using questionnaires. Findings show that the program is successful in encouraging the use of English in all four skills of listening, speaking,reading and writing. Findings also show that writing skill has the highest English language usage amongst the participants of this program.

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Perimeter description of research publications on drones by prolific engineering writers

2023-04-24 , Ina Suryani Ab Rahim , Noriha Basir , Norkhairi A. , Mohamad Zaki Abdul Halim , Faharol Zubir

Teaching technical writing to engineering researchers particularly post graduate students is a demanding and complex task. Often the challenge faced by the language instructor is in having inadequate understanding on students' expected writing output which is engineering research publication. While the language instructors may find the language use aspect manageable, it is the understanding on expected writing output for engineering discipline that is a challenge; therefore, supporting language module developers to understand those expected outputs is essential and needed for the advancement in language teaching. In view on the need for the description of the targeted output which is engineering publication, this study focuses on supporting the understanding of engineering research publication specifically on drones. This study is aimed to describe the perimeter of research publication on drones written by prolific engineering writers. This paper uses bibliometric analysis method which is based on identifying the core research and authors, as well as the works that cited them. This study examines 275 research publications indexed in SCOPUS database and also investigates 1947 research publications that cited the 275 publications as reference source. The findings show that the publications are mostly articles, conference papers and reviews deriving mostly from the US, China and the UK whereas the citing documents are mostly from China, the UK and the US. This paper presents the description on the perimeter for both groups. Such description provides a ready narrative to language instructors as well as ready narratives and guidance on writing/content dimension for young scholars embarking on writing scholarly articles on drone research.

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Description on research article introduction section by computer science researchers in Malaysian private universities

2018 , Ina Suryani Ab Rahim , Norkhairi Ahmad , Faharol Zubir , Norlizawati Ghazali , Eunice M. Aclan

The competition and pursuit for better ranking within the academia drive a more prevailing and urgent need to increase the number of research publications. This paper examines twenty research article introduction sections written in English to identify the rhetorical patterns and structures for better understanding on how the writers write. The research articles are written by the Computer Science researchers in Malaysian private universities. This paper presents the results of the move analysis on the rhetorical structure of the selected text and the descriptions on how the moves were accomplished by the writers. In general, the results show that the writers utilised the Create a Research Space (CARS) model by Swales (2004). The three moves suggested in CARS model are establishing the research territory, establishing the research niche and presenting the present work. While all the three moves suggested in the model are fulfilled by the writers, some of the rhetorical steps which are proposed as obligatory steps in CARS model are being underutilised. Such underutilisation calls for more emphasis and employment on the respective rhetorical steps. The respective rhetorical steps are presenting positive justification, summarising methods, announcing principle outcomes and stating the value of the present research.

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The roles of artificial intelligence technology in enhancing remote education for university students in Chongqing, China

2024-12 , Peng Shasha , Norehan Hussin , Ina Suryani Ab Rahim

This study investigates the roles of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in enhancing remote education for university students in Chongqing, China, focusing on the post-COVID-19 era. Employing a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), the research addresses two key questions: (RQ1) the reasons for using AI in remote education, and (RQ2) the challenges associated with its implementation. A search was conducted using Google Scholar, selected for its broad access to interdisciplinary scholarly works. Articles published between 2021 and 2024 were analyzed. The study found that AI enhances remote education by offering convenience and flexibility tailored to students’ individual learning paces and needs. It enriches the learning experience through diverse and engaging course content and enables personalized learning paths with resource recommendations based on students’ abilities and learning history. Key tools include virtual tutoring systems, intelligent assignment grading systems, and virtual laboratories, which collectively address educational gaps in remote settings. However, challenges persist, including technical adaptation issues, data privacy and security concerns, unreliable network connections, and a lack of interpersonal interaction. The paper concludes with improvement measures such as strengthening data security, improving infrastructure, and incorporating hybrid learning approaches.

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The rhetorical moves of abstracts in thesis

2023 , Faharol Zubir , Ina Suryani Ab Rahim , Sharmini Abdullah

Abst-ract plays an important role in representing research articles (RAs) or theses. A clear, concise, informative and interesting abstract helps the RAs or theses in terms of visibility and drawing attention towards the research. Being among the first writings read by the target audience, that is after the title and name of the researcher/s, it determines whether the rest of the RA or thesis will be read or not. Therefore, this paper draws attention to the rhetorical moves found in Engineering discipline thesis abstracts compared with the TEFL discipline thesis abstracts. The sample of the study are 10 thesis abstracts, selected from the best thesis award recipients of Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP). All the thesis analysed are from the engineering discipline and are written in English. The corpus size is 4540 words. Then, the result obtained were compared with a previous study on TEFL thesis abstracts done by [1]. The study uses Move analysis guided by CARS Model (2004) and utilizes frequency count (presence of Move). The findings of the study show that Move 3 is the most utilized Move in these abstracts. Move 3 is present in all of the theses for both the Engineering and TEFL abstracts. The Move step analysis indicated that for Move 2, the Engineering discipline thesis has more occurrences as compared with the TEFL discipline abstracts. The finding can be used by instructors for teaching abstracts writing based on best practice and from a more personalized perspective taking into account the discipline and cultural variation of the abstracts. As most instructors teaching academic writing in university comes from the linguistic or English language education background, it is hoped that the comparison made in this study would benefit those instructors teaching academic writing, particularly abstract writing for Engineering students.

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