JSSH Vol. 23 (3) Sep. 2015

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Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities

Vol. 23 (3) Sept. 2015
Contents
Foreword i

Nayan Deep S. Kanwal
Review Article
The Need for an Academic Resilience Approach to Cognitive Task 553
Performance of Malaysian Students in Secondary Schools and Higher
Education
Kuldas, S., Hashim, S., Ismail, H. N. and Samsudin, M. A.
Regular Articles
Public Engagement, Historians and Higher Education: A Retrospectiv e 567

UK Case Study
Fiona Williamson

Constructing the Subject, Deconstructing the Text: The Feminist Other in 583
Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah
Muhammad Alkali, Rosli Talif and Jariah Mohd Jan
Ownership Structure and Auditor’s Ethnicity of Malaysian Public L isted 603 V
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Companies l. 2
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Asmuni, A. I. H., Nawawi, A. and Salin, A. S. A. P. (3
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Machiavellianism and Spiritual Intelligence as Predictors of 623 p
Waste-Prevention Behaviours among Malaysian University Students t. 20
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Samaneh Karbalaei, Abbas Abdollahi and Sabrina Abdull ah 5

Mughal or Moorish Architecture: The Origins of Malaysian Mosques 639
During Colonial Periods
Maryam Khazaee, Naziaty Yaacob, Zakaria Alcheikh Mahmoud
Awad and Zuraini Md Ali
Human Versus Nature in Ted Hughes’s Sense of Place: Remains of Elmet 655
and Moortown Diary VOL. 23 (3) SEPT. 2015
Sulaiman, M. Q.
Utilising Arabic-origin Loanwords in Teaching Malay as a Foreign Language 665
Kazuhito Uni

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Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities
Vol. 23 (3) Sept. 2015
Contents
Foreword i
Nayan Deep S. Kanwal
Review Article
The Need for an Academic Resilience Approach to Cognitive Task 553
Performance of Malaysian Students in Secondary Schools and Higher
Education
Kuldas, S., Hashim, S., Ismail, H. N. and Samsudin, M. A.
Regular Articles
Public Engagement, Historians and Higher Education: A Retrospective 567
UK Case Study
Fiona Williamson
Constructing the Subject, Deconstructing the Text: The Feminist Other in 583
Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah
Muhammad Alkali, Rosli Talif and Jariah Mohd Jan
Ownership Structure and Auditor’s Ethnicity of Malaysian Public Listed 603
Companies
Asmuni, A. I. H., Nawawi, A. and Salin, A. S. A. P.
Machiavellianism and Spiritual Intelligence as Predictors of 623
Waste-Prevention Behaviours among Malaysian University Students
Samaneh Karbalaei, Abbas Abdollahi and Sabrina Abdullah
Mughal or Moorish Architecture: The Origins of Malaysian Mosques 639
During Colonial Periods
Maryam Khazaee, Naziaty Yaacob, Zakaria Alcheikh Mahmoud
Awad and Zuraini Md Ali
Human Versus Nature in Ted Hughes’s Sense of Place: Remains of Elmet 655
and Moortown Diary
Sulaiman, M. Q.
Utilising Arabic-origin Loanwords in Teaching Malay as a Foreign Language 665
Kazuhito Uni
Assessment of the Resource Potential of Sal Seeds, Existing Market 681
Mechanism and its Role in Livelihood Generation of Rural Communities
in Kumaun Himalaya
Girish Chandra Pant
Preliminary Exploration of a Semai Musician’s Transmission of Indigenous 691
Musical Traditions in Peninsular Malaysia
Clare Chan Suet Ching and Valerie Ross
Regional Disparities in the Magnitude of Orphanhood in Nepal 711
Guragain, A. M., Choonpradub, C., Paudel, B. K. and Lim, A.
Incidental Learning of Vocabulary through Computer-Based and 725
Paper-Based Games by Secondary School ESL Learners
Letchumanan, K., Tan, B. H., Paramasivam, S., Sabariah, M. R. and
Muthusamy, P.
A Preliminary Analysis of Securitising Mental Health in LAMICs Regional 741
Groups: The Case of ASEAN
Bunyavejchewin, P.
Foreword
Welcome to the Third Issue 2015 of the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (JSSH)!
JSSH is an open-access journal for the Social Sciences and Humanities that is published
by Universiti Putra Malaysia Press. It is independently owned and managed by the
university and run on a non-profit basis for the benefit of the world-wide social science
community.
This issue contains 13 articles. The authors of these articles come from different countries,
namely, Britain, Nigeria, Turkey, Malaysia, Iran, Japan, India, Nepal and Thailand.
The articles cover a wide range of topics, from a study investigating the relationship
between the ownership structure of Malaysian public-listed companies and the choice
of auditor based on ethnicity (Asmuni, A.I.H., Nawawi, A. and Salin, A.S.A.P.), a study
examining the associations between spiritual intelligence and Machiavellianism as
factors that influence waste-prevention behaviours among Malaysian University Students
(Samaneh Karbalaei, Abbas Abdollahi and Sabrina Abdullah), a paper investigating the
influence of foreigner-influenced architecture on the ‘Neo-Mughal’ or ‘Moorish’ style
of design seen in Malaysian mosques of the colonial period (1800-1930) (Maryam
Kkhazaee, Naziaty Yaacob, Zakaria Alcheikh Mahmoud Awad and Zuraini Binti Md Ali),
an assessment of the resource potential of Sal seeds, the existing market mechanism
and its role in livelihood generation of rural communities in Kumaun Himalaya (Pant,
G. C.), a study that identified the proportion of children who are orphans and their
geographic distribution in Nepal (Guragain, A.M., Choonpradub, C., Paudel, B.K. and
Lim, A.), to a research paper that explored efforts to prioritise mental health through
securitisation and attempted to determine why such efforts are not successful in LAMICs
regions, focusing on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a case study
(Bunyavejchewin, P.).
The remaining articles, on topics related to literature, education and language and
linguistics, include an essay discussing the feminist other In Achebe’s Anthills of the
Savannah (Muhammad Alkali, Rosli Talif and Jariah Mohd Jan), a paper that examines
Ted Hughes’ portrayal of the relationship between mankind and nature in ‘Remains of
Elmet’ and ‘Moortown Diary’ (Sulaiman, M. Q.), an article that proposed a practical
framework for humanities departments to embed public engagement into departmental
teaching programmes based on a case study of a course module run at a UK university
(Fiona Williamson), a review that aimed at explaining how the academic resilience
approach relates to cognitive task performance of Malaysian students (Seffetullah
Kuldas, Shahabuddin Hashim, Hairul Nizam Ismail and Mohd Ali Samsudin), an article
presenting the pioneering outcomes of a non-interventic ethnographic observation of a
Semai musician’s transmission of indigenous musical traditions using selected indigenous
musical instruments from his community (Clare Chan Suet Ching and Valerie Ross), a
study examining the utility of explicit presentation of Arabic-origin Malay loanwords and
their etymologies in teaching Malay as a foreign language to Arabic speakers (Uni, K.)
and a study that investigated which mode of language games, paper-based or computer-
based, can better expand the English vocabulary size of secondary school students
especially at the 2000 word-level (Letchumanan, K., Tan, B.H., Paramasivam, S., Md
Rashid, S. and Muthusamy, P.)
I anticipate that you will find the evidence presented in this issue to be intriguing,
thought-provoking, and useful in reaching new milestones. Please recommend the
journal to your colleagues and students to make this endeavour meaningful.
I would also like to express my gratitude to all the contributors who have made this
issue possible, as well as the authors, reviewers and editors for their professional
contribution. Last but not least, the editorial assistance of the journal division staff is
also fully appreciated.
JSSH is currently accepting manuscripts for upcoming issues based on original qualitative
or quantitative research that opens new areas of inquiry and investigation.
Chief Executive Editor
Nayan Deep S. KANWAL, FRSA, ABIM, AMIS, Ph.D.
[email protected]
Pertanika J. Soc. Sci. & Hum. 23 (3): 553 - 566 (2015)
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Review Article
The Need for an Academic Resilience Approach to Cognitive
Task Performance of Malaysian Students in Secondary
Schools and Higher Education
Kuldas, S.*, Hashim, S., Ismail, H. N. and Samsudin, M. A.
School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Jalan Sungai Dua, 11800 Georgetown,
Pulau Penang, Malaysia
ABSTRACT
Rendering students resilient and intellectually rigorous is a primary objective of education
in Malaysia. The Education Ministry has emphasised the enhancement of problem-solving
and critical thinking skills, but reported that the skills performance of students in secondary
schools and higher education is below the targeted proficiency level. According to the
Ministry, the educational institutions are responsible for the lack of optimal performance.
However, the unsatisfactory result might also be ascribed to the students’ overall experience
of adversity. Some students, against all odds, are academically resilient. How Malaysian
secondary and higher-education students construct, develop and demonstrate academic
resilience has yet to be investigated. This review of related literature is, therefore, aimed
at explaining how the academic resilience approach relates to cognitive task performance
of the students. Further investigations can provide guidelines to help students who are not
academically resilient. This would facilitate achievement of the objective .
Keywords: Malaysian students, resilience, academic resilience, resilience assets, risk factors
INTRODUCTION
A universal objective of education is to
render students as academically resilient
ARTICLE INFO
Article history: and intellectually rigorous learners who
Received: 14 June 2013
Accepted: 16 March 2015 are effective problem solvers as well as
E-mail addresses: critical and creative thinkers. Such students
[email protected] (Kuldas, S.)
[email protected] (Hashim, S.) would be better equipped to carry out
[email protected] (Ismail, H. N.)
cognitive tasks successfully and demonstrate
[email protected] (Samsudin, M. A.)
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Kuldas, S., Hashim, S., Ismail, H. N. and Samsudin, M. A.
resilience in the face of adversity; they in spite of adversity. Strengthening human
would be able to handle the challenges of resilience has become a focal point of
studying at higher institutions of learning, interest in the educational philosophy
and afterwards, cope with problems in life of many countries, including Malaysia.
(Benard, 1995). This objective is central to Educational endeavours in Malaysia are
secondary schools and institutions of higher aimed at rendering Malaysian students
learning in Malaysia (Nagappan, 2000, resilient and intellectually rigorous, thereby
2010). However, research has yet to be realising the vision of the educational
carried out to investigate how secondary and philosophy (Curriculum Development
higher-education students construct, develop Centre, 1989; Educational Planning and
and demonstrate academic resilience. Research Division, 1994). The Ministry of
The lack of findings in this area might Higher Education (MOHE 2006), currently
lead to inconclusive evaluation of factors known as The Ministry of Education
underlying satisfactory or unsatisfactory (MOH), recognises the vision as the central
cognitive task performance and academic purpose of education and places emphasis on
achievement (Hanewald, 2011). the need to help Malaysian students acquire
The main purpose of this review, higher order thinking skills, especially
therefore, is to draw attention to the need problem-solving aptitudes. Malaysian
for an academic resilience approach to students should be able to practise critical,
improve the cognitive task performance of creative, and reflective thinking skills to
secondary and higher-education students solve problems, undertake demanding
in Malaysia. The review is divided into cognitive tasks and adapt to challenging
three main parts. The first part sets out the environments. Problem-solving skills
reasons for the resilience approach in the facilitate coping with adverse circumstances
Malaysian context. The next part expounds inside and outside the classroom (Georges,
human resilience. The last part highlights 1988). Thus, it is of paramount importance
the promotion of resilience as an essential to ensure that students acquire such skills so
aim of education, explicates the conception that a primary objective of the educational
of academic resilience and identifies the policy is met.
resilience assets that can be promoted. Notwithstanding the educational
endeavours, findings have indicated low
THE NEED FOR INVESTIGATING proficiency levels of critical thinking skills
ACADEMIC RESILIENCE ASSETS of Malaysian secondary school (Nagappan,
OF MALAYSIAN SECONDARY AND
2000, 2001) and higher-education students
HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS
(MOHE, 2006; Tarmizi et al., 2008).
Human development showcases potential
For instance, students from technical
resilience process, capacity, and outcome.
institutions were found to have difficulty
Human resilience enables an individual to
in generating critical and creative ideas
overcome various challenges and succeed
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