Defining cultural influences in Malay students' essays / YM Tengku Intan Suzila and Mohd Yusri Mohamad Noor

Tengku Sharif, YM Tengku Intan Suzila and Mohamad Noor, Mohd Yusri (2003) Defining cultural influences in Malay students' essays / YM Tengku Intan Suzila and Mohd Yusri Mohamad Noor. Gading Jurnal Akademik, 1,2 (8). pp. 56-64. ISSN 0128-5599

Abstract

This paper attempts to put forward the errors made by Malay students and to analyze the errors made with relation to cultural influences. The word culture, which means "the ideas, beliefs, and customs that are shared and accepted by people in a society" (Longman Dictionary, 2001), is derived for the word "cultivate" which means, "to develop a particular skill or quality in yourself'. The question being probed is how do lecturers differentiate whether an error in a student's essay is influenced by the first language, or a result of cultural effect?

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Item Type:	Article
Creators:	Creators Email / ID Num. Tengku Sharif, YM Tengku Intan Suzila intansuzila@uitm.edu.my Mohamad Noor, Mohd Yusri mohdyusri@uitm.edu.my
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology > Culture L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > Learning ability L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > English language
Divisions:	Universiti Teknologi MARA, Pahang > Jengka Campus
Journal or Publication Title:	Gading Jurnal Akademik
UiTM Journal Collections:	Other UiTM Journals > GADING
ISSN:	0128-5599
Volume:	1,2
Number:	8
Page Range:	pp. 56-64
Keywords:	Culture, Errors, Error analysis
Date:	January 2003
URI:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/36981

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