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Digitally engendering soft skills through stixy – a web-based Bulletin Board

There have been complaints by private sectors about the quality of local graduates as an employable asset which for private sectors are paramount for career and industry success. In an effort to imbue local undergraduates with requisite soft skills, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are tasked to...

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Main Authors: Ng, Shi Ing, Tan, Choon Keong, Yeo, Li Min, Lee, Kean Wah
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Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2012
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spelling my-ukm.journal.55622016-12-14T06:38:49Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5562/ Digitally engendering soft skills through stixy – a web-based Bulletin Board Ng, Shi Ing Tan, Choon Keong Yeo, Li Min Lee, Kean Wah There have been complaints by private sectors about the quality of local graduates as an employable asset which for private sectors are paramount for career and industry success. In an effort to imbue local undergraduates with requisite soft skills, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are tasked to comply with the Malaysian Qualifications Framework to guarantee quality of soft skills among graduates. Traditionally, soft skills are learnt while pre-service teachers are engaged in project related assignments while assessment of soft skills is done during Q&A sessions. However, there is a possibility of developing soft skills by using Web 2.0 tools during learning. This study investigates the efficacy and the extent of the suitability of a free formed, web-based bulletin board, Stixy, as a learning platform to inculcate soft skills through collaborative knowledge building. Thirty eight first year TESL pre-service teachers at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) used Stixy as a bulletin board to contribute and discuss ideas in the process of creating a poster for an English Language literature assignment. Using elicitation tools such as questionnaire, focus-group interviews, reflective journals, both quantitative and qualitative data were gathered. Quantitative data were analysed descriptively using mean and standard deviation, while qualitative data were content analysed using the Collaborative Learning Conversation Skills Taxonomy (CLCS). Findings indicate that Stixy has succeeded in promoting soft skills through collaborative knowledge building and was adopted favorably by the pre-service teachers. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5562/1/18_3_8_NgShiIng.pdf Ng, Shi Ing and Tan, Choon Keong and Yeo, Li Min and Lee, Kean Wah (2012) Digitally engendering soft skills through stixy – a web-based Bulletin Board. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 18 (3). pp. 73-89. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/3L/3LHome.html
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description There have been complaints by private sectors about the quality of local graduates as an employable asset which for private sectors are paramount for career and industry success. In an effort to imbue local undergraduates with requisite soft skills, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are tasked to comply with the Malaysian Qualifications Framework to guarantee quality of soft skills among graduates. Traditionally, soft skills are learnt while pre-service teachers are engaged in project related assignments while assessment of soft skills is done during Q&A sessions. However, there is a possibility of developing soft skills by using Web 2.0 tools during learning. This study investigates the efficacy and the extent of the suitability of a free formed, web-based bulletin board, Stixy, as a learning platform to inculcate soft skills through collaborative knowledge building. Thirty eight first year TESL pre-service teachers at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) used Stixy as a bulletin board to contribute and discuss ideas in the process of creating a poster for an English Language literature assignment. Using elicitation tools such as questionnaire, focus-group interviews, reflective journals, both quantitative and qualitative data were gathered. Quantitative data were analysed descriptively using mean and standard deviation, while qualitative data were content analysed using the Collaborative Learning Conversation Skills Taxonomy (CLCS). Findings indicate that Stixy has succeeded in promoting soft skills through collaborative knowledge building and was adopted favorably by the pre-service teachers.
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author Ng, Shi Ing
Tan, Choon Keong
Yeo, Li Min
Lee, Kean Wah
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Yeo, Li Min
Lee, Kean Wah
Digitally engendering soft skills through stixy – a web-based Bulletin Board
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Tan, Choon Keong
Yeo, Li Min
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title Digitally engendering soft skills through stixy – a web-based Bulletin Board
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