Aizan Yaacob
Universiti Utara Malaysia
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Language and Education | 2009
Sheena Gardner; Aizan Yaacob
CD-ROM affordances are explored in this article through participation in classroom interaction. CD-ROMs for shared reading of animated stories and language work were introduced to all Malaysian primary schools in 2003 for the Year 1 English Literacy Hour. We present classroom interaction extracts that show how the same CD-ROMs offer different affordances in their support of seven teaching styles differentiated along eight dimensions. The meaning potential of the CD-ROMs emerges as teachers make salient different combinations of modes in the materials. Despite these interactional differences, the introduction of CD-ROMs is essentially a ‘benign addition’ in that it generates interest and motivation among students and is appreciated by teachers for ‘lightening the load’, but has done little to transform traditional ways of teaching in these Year 1 classrooms: there was no evidence of the increased interaction and student participation desired by the Ministry. Our findings resonate with research internationally which calls for clear guidelines about ‘what works’. Our classification of teaching styles based on interactions afforded by the Malaysian CD-ROMs enables us to identify what might work in different contexts.
Archive | 2016
Ina Suryani; Salleh Abd Rashid; Kamaruddin Hussin; Aizan Yaacob; Noor Hashima
Articles on innovative research development and discussions on sustainable issues in art and design education research are welcomed by editors and publishers for the reason that sharing of knowledge would encourage beneficial development and advancement of arts and design education and research. Simultaneously, writers of journal articles in the other disciplines are putting vigorous effort into publishing their articles to the extent that promotional strategies are used to appeal to the interest of the readers, and editors in turn increase the possibility of publication and citation. Although studies found promotional strategies have permeated into the journal articles in science and technologies disciplines, not much has been discussed on whether the arts and design academicians promote their work in their journal article writing. Motivated that the understanding of the utilization of the promotional strategy in journal article writing would benefit the art and design writers in publishing their work, this chapter investigated the use of promotional strategies in art and design research articles. Putting the findings side by side, it was found that the visual arts articles utilized more recommended strategies in their writing compared to the performing arts articles. Compared to the performing art articles, the visual arts articles were found using more strategies that indicated the research gap and strategies that stated the value of their work. Although the finding cannot be generalized to all journal articles in performing arts and visual arts articles due to the small sampling, the understanding from this study is useful for arts and design writers particularly in writing their articles for publication.
International Education Studies | 2014
Sethela June; Aizan Yaacob; Yeoh Khar Kheng
The International Journal of Higher Education | 2013
Ina Suryani; Aizan Yaacob; Noor Hashima; Salleh Abd Rashid; Hazry Desa
The International Journal of Higher Education | 2013
Ina Suryani; H. Kamaruddin; Noor Hashima; Aizan Yaacob; Salleh Abd Rashid; Hazry Desa
English Language Teaching | 2016
Latisha Asmaak Shafie; Aizan Yaacob; Paramjit Kaur Karpal Singh
English Language Teaching | 2016
Latisha Asmaak Shafie; Aizan Yaacob; Paramjit Kaur Karpal Singh
Archive | 2015
Ina Suryani Ab Rahim; Aizan Yaacob; Noor Hashima Abd Aziz
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (ijet) | 2015
Latisha Asmaak Shafie; Aizan Yaacob; Paramjit Kaur Karpal Singh
Archive | 2014
Sethela June; Aizan Yaacob; Yeoh Khar Kheng