Aspect in Malay Verbs: Realigning Time and Volition to Malay Events

Sew, Jyh Wee

doi:10.33736/ils.1628.2016

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“…tengah makan 'ASP eat'). Malay verb is not inflected for tense and the progressivity of action is encoded by the use of aspect markers sedang/tengah (Razak et al 2016;Sew 2016). In the data, the children used aspect tengah to indicate progressivity.…”

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The onset of English lexical acquisition among Malaysian preschoolers

Salleh

Biase

Kawaguchi

2022

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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English is undoubtedly an important language for educational and socioeconomic mobility in numerous countries including Malaysia. Regardless of its importance, studies to document English language acquisition among Malaysian children acquiring English in the local context remain scarce. This normative data is imperative for syllabus-designers, policymakers, teachers and linguists to understand and to develop materials that are developmentally sensitive and contextualised to the local setting. Thus, the objective of this paper is to present the onset of English lexical acquisition among 99 Malaysian preschoolers at the beginning of formal instruction. The 99 children were pupils in 3 public preschools in Klang Valley, Malaysia. The children's language production was elicited in individual communicative tasks. Their lexical output, both in English and Malay were analysed based on the children's language choice during the session as well as the frequencies of types and tokens. The results indicate that Malaysian preschoolers displayed a limited range of productive abilities and age-sensitive vocabulary in English at the beginning of formal instruction. However, at that point, the children already possess receptive skills greater than their productive skills. Based on the findings, implications for pedagogy are also discussed.

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The onset of English lexical acquisition among Malaysian preschoolers

Salleh

Biase

Kawaguchi

2022

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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“…The understanding of a verb meaning is insufficient without the phrasal import as its domain of interpretation. A typical Malay verb transforms into a network of meaning in alignment with the profiling of the verbal volition (Sew, 2016a). Similarly, the English verb jump may profile a transitive or intransitive construction (cf.…”

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Learning Malay with Poems: From Understanding Stylistics to Blogging Poetic Expressions

Sew

2017

ILS

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We provide a bifocal account on teaching techniques and learning achievements in suggesting that Malay poems, as a resource, are beneficial to foreign language pedagogy. The teaching focus was the Malay poetic-discursive strategies at the stylistic levels. By examining the structures of three poems, the pedagogy positions Malay poems as communicative assembles of Malay linguistic categories for conveying a series of messages. A learning focus is in place toward the production of a poem in the weblogs for developing the confidence to communicate in Malay. The learning results in three submissions from four tertiary learners who produce reflective poetic expressions with visual stimulations. Their creative outputs indicate that poetry offers a cathartic avenue for developing interpersonal intelligence. Writing about sibling relationship, inter-generation gap and conviction for success, the poem project perpetuates intrinsic values thus complementing the pragmatic reasons typically associated with foreign language education. In this respect, language pedagogy using Malay poems is a value-adding practice relevant in foreign language education.

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Lagi in Standard Malaysian Malay

Chung

2019

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Lagi, a less studied Malay adverb, has meanings such as ‘in addition’, ‘again’, ‘more’, and ‘yet/still’. We aimed to see how these meanings could be related in a single word and to find the conceptualization and grammatical paths involved. We also intended to find out whether this word carries any underlying meanings not specified in dictionaries. In the corpus, although many examples have lagi in the sentence-final position, some unconventional sentence-initial uses were also found in news headlines. We found that lagi serves a special function in news headlines, emphasizing the repeatedness of events that were often negative or undesirable. The seemingly unrelated meanings of lagi can be categorized based on three meaning concepts – addition/more meaning, less-more continuum, and temporal lagi (‘yet/still’, ‘again’). In addition to these concepts, we also found several possible grammaticalization paths that contribute to the different uses of lagi.

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Aspect in Malay Verbs: Realigning Time and Volition to Malay Events

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

The onset of English lexical acquisition among Malaysian preschoolers

The onset of English lexical acquisition among Malaysian preschoolers

Learning Malay with Poems: From Understanding Stylistics to Blogging Poetic Expressions

Lagi in Standard Malaysian Malay

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