Issues on skills and competencies in education / editors, Munir Shuib [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Munir Shuib, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Malaysia.

Education, Higher.

Education and state--Malaysia.

Education and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pulau Pinang : Penerbit USM, [2011]

Summary:

In order to sustain quality in education, students' and teachers' skills and competencies must be continuously enhanced. We cannot be complacent with the skills and competencies that we currently possess. Not only must we seek to enhance them, we must also learn to use them in new situations. We may even need new skills and competencies to keep up with new developments, technologies and challenges. This book is a compilation of selected papers presented at the National Conference of Skills and Competencies in Education 2008. Generally these papers may be divided into two groups: English langua

Contents:

Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Abbreviations; PART 1: ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES; 1. Needs Analysis in ESP Courses: Towards Understanding and Meeting Graduates' English Language Skills and Competencies; 2. An Analysis of Students' Summaries using Summary Sentence Decomposition; 3. Difficulties in Academic Writing for Malaysian Undergraduates; 4. A Case Study on Oral Communication Usage and Patterns among Final Year Electrical Engineering Students of UiTM Pulau Pinang

5. Investigating English Language Proficiency of Iraqi Arabic Speaking Postgraduate StudentsPART 2: INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES; 6. Emotional Intelligence through Literary Response: Implication to Education; 7. Teachers' Written Feedback in Second Language Writing: A Case Study of EFL Teachers' Roles and Illocutionary Acts of their Written Feedback; 8. Achieving Meaningful Learning using Metaphors, V-Hueristic Epistemological Stance and Constructivist-Based Instructional Strategies in Undergraduates Studies

9. The Use of Biofeedback for Enhancing Cognitive Performance in Industrial Training Setting10. Cooperative Learning in the Pre-Employment Programme, University of Malaya; 11. Testing Maths in English and Malay: A Comparative Analysis; 12. Examining Preservice Teachers' Knowledge of Perimeter and Area via Clinical Interview: A Case Study; 13. Conclusion; Contributors; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 25, 2016).

ISBN:

983-861-757-1

OCLC:

935916155