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Reformulating communication strategy training to reduce topic fronting among TESL teachers in Malaysia

Communication strategies involves the vast range of linguistic and paralinguistic techniques such as the use of negotiation of meaning to the very complex facial expressions. Despite being highly human based, the use of communication strategies needs to be learned and developed. The Malaysian classi...

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Main Authors: Megawati Soekarno, Irma Wani Othman, Ameiruel Azwan Ab Aziz, Nik Zaitun Nik Mohamed
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Published: Global Academic Excellence (M) Sdn Bhd 2022
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P87-96 Communication. Mass media
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spelling my.ums.eprints.378472023-12-15T08:04:01Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37847/ Reformulating communication strategy training to reduce topic fronting among TESL teachers in Malaysia Megawati Soekarno Irma Wani Othman Ameiruel Azwan Ab Aziz Nik Zaitun Nik Mohamed P87-96 Communication. Mass media Communication strategies involves the vast range of linguistic and paralinguistic techniques such as the use of negotiation of meaning to the very complex facial expressions. Despite being highly human based, the use of communication strategies needs to be learned and developed. The Malaysian classified variety, topic fronting, is a highly utilised communication strategy. However, despite being an achievement strategy, topic fronting does not abide by the English language grammatical rule. Although one of the primary factors of communication strategy is the independence from linguistic rules, a rampant use of this strategy among ESL learners might affect them adversely especially in academic discourse. This study looked into this strategy among the TESL practitioners from Universiti Malaysia Sabah. The findings obtained from their focus group discussions (FGD) identified four themes in the utilisation of topic fronting methods of overcoming it as well as the inculcation of suitable communication strategies. This study’s findings show that low utilisation of topic fronting should be able to allow the reformulation of the current communication strategy training. Global Academic Excellence (M) Sdn Bhd 2022-12-15 Article NonPeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37847/1/ABSTRACT.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37847/2/FULLTEXT.pdf Megawati Soekarno and Irma Wani Othman and Ameiruel Azwan Ab Aziz and Nik Zaitun Nik Mohamed (2022) Reformulating communication strategy training to reduce topic fronting among TESL teachers in Malaysia. International Journal of Education, Psychology and Counseling, 7. pp. 126-140. 10.35631/IJEPC.748009
institution Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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topic P87-96 Communication. Mass media
spellingShingle P87-96 Communication. Mass media
Megawati Soekarno
Irma Wani Othman
Ameiruel Azwan Ab Aziz
Nik Zaitun Nik Mohamed
Reformulating communication strategy training to reduce topic fronting among TESL teachers in Malaysia
description Communication strategies involves the vast range of linguistic and paralinguistic techniques such as the use of negotiation of meaning to the very complex facial expressions. Despite being highly human based, the use of communication strategies needs to be learned and developed. The Malaysian classified variety, topic fronting, is a highly utilised communication strategy. However, despite being an achievement strategy, topic fronting does not abide by the English language grammatical rule. Although one of the primary factors of communication strategy is the independence from linguistic rules, a rampant use of this strategy among ESL learners might affect them adversely especially in academic discourse. This study looked into this strategy among the TESL practitioners from Universiti Malaysia Sabah. The findings obtained from their focus group discussions (FGD) identified four themes in the utilisation of topic fronting methods of overcoming it as well as the inculcation of suitable communication strategies. This study’s findings show that low utilisation of topic fronting should be able to allow the reformulation of the current communication strategy training.
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author Megawati Soekarno
Irma Wani Othman
Ameiruel Azwan Ab Aziz
Nik Zaitun Nik Mohamed
author_facet Megawati Soekarno
Irma Wani Othman
Ameiruel Azwan Ab Aziz
Nik Zaitun Nik Mohamed
author_sort Megawati Soekarno
title Reformulating communication strategy training to reduce topic fronting among TESL teachers in Malaysia
title_short Reformulating communication strategy training to reduce topic fronting among TESL teachers in Malaysia
title_full Reformulating communication strategy training to reduce topic fronting among TESL teachers in Malaysia
title_fullStr Reformulating communication strategy training to reduce topic fronting among TESL teachers in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Reformulating communication strategy training to reduce topic fronting among TESL teachers in Malaysia
title_sort reformulating communication strategy training to reduce topic fronting among tesl teachers in malaysia
publisher Global Academic Excellence (M) Sdn Bhd
publishDate 2022
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37847/1/ABSTRACT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37847/2/FULLTEXT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37847/
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