Articles Review.

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Dear readers,
as we promised in previous update, these are three articles that we have reviewed. Oh, our instructor, Dr. Lihanna assigned us to do some short write up for each article. Enjoy your reading!


Article Review #1: Descriptive Study

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Article by Bulger, Mohr and Walls (2002) has discussed about the use of four aces of effective teaching as a professional instructional practice. The four aces highlighted the four aces which are outcome, clarity, enthusiasm, and engagement as a practice in higher education. The paper also illustrated and describe of the four aces of effective teaching as a concept to reflect the teacher practice and also gain the ability of pedagogical skill. This article shown that by following the Aces method, it will make the teacher become more effective and enhance student learning. Aces method can be applied to MRSM and Arabic issues.

Article Review #2: Correlational Study

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A study was conducted by Schlesser (2004) which the aim of his study is to document middle school students’ grade point average (GPA) relative to their participation in school sponsored activities. ANOVA was used to examine the relationship between gender, extracurricular participation and their interaction with GPA. The finding of this research was there is significantly higher GPA for students who participate in extracurricular activities than those who do not participate. Besides, there was positively associated with GPA both male and female students’ who participate activities in school. So, extracurricular activities can increase students' GPA and applied to MRSM issues.

Article Review #3: Experimental Study

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A study conducted by Ishtiaq Hussain (2005) in order to examine the effectiveness of direct method and traditional method of teaching English at secondary level. Direct method is teaching the foreign language without interference of mother tongue, meanwhile, traditional method is teaching the language word-to-word translation in mother tongue. There are four group designs in which two groups received experimental treatment (direct method) and the other two groups received control treatment (traditional method). The findings have shown that direct teaching method was more effective than traditional method with regards to students’ achievement. Teaching method in this article may help increase students' performance in Arabic.

Thank you for spending your time reading short write up for those articles! Highly appreciated. Stay tune with our next class activities updates! Fi amanillah :)