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62 WORKPLACE ENGLISH Angeline Ranjethamoney Vijayarajoo, Ramesh Nair, and Sujatha Menon Workplace English caters to the needs of individuals who are about to enter or are already in the job market. Among others, it also covers social situations where interaction is inevitable, and in fact, vital for successful negotiation. This book contains practical exercises aimed at improving one’s English Language skills at the workplace. Workplace English was first conceived whilst the authors were creating and adapting materials for students at the Universiti Teknologi MARA. Those dimensions have been extended so that any individual interested in improving their workplace communication might be able to pick up a copy and find it useful. In a nutshell, this book is meant to be practical, to help the reader communicate effectively in situations that he or she will encounter every day at the workplace. About the Authors Angeline Ranjethamoney Vijayarajoo, Ramesh Nair, and Sujatha Menon are lecturers at the Academy of Language Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA. All have been teaching English for Occupational Purposes courses at UiTM. ISBN: 983-2639-88-3 2004, Paper, 240 pages ISBN: 962-0028-45-7 1997, Paper, 334 pages BUSINESS WRITING FOR HONG KONG Second Edition Grahame T Bilbow This book is intended for those who are taking a course in business writing, and for those who have professional reasons for writing in a business context. It is designed for both classroom and self-reference use. This substantially revised edition of the book is arranged in two parts. The first part of the book is a reference guide to the basics of business writing. The second part gives comprehensive practice in producing all the common forms of business writing. Third Edition in 2005 ISBN: 0-13-100138-8 2003, Paper, 216 pages ENGINEERING YOUR REPORT From Start to Finish Lakshmy Anantha Krishnan, Rowena Jong, Sujata S Kathpalia, and Tam Moh Kim This book uses a genre-based approach to teaching technical report writing to engineering students. Using a step-by-step approach, it aims to help students not only master the conventional structure of the different sections of a technical report but also write up these sections by making appropriate language choices. The examples presented in this book are extracted from actual student reports, theses, and research papers in the field of engineering in order to familiarize students with authentic writing in the target genre. The exercises at the end of the book give students the opportunity to practise writing the different sections of a report. ISBN: 962-00-8810-7 2003, Paper, 440 pages THE HONG KONG COMPANY SECRETARY’S HANDBOOK PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE Sixth Edition Cheng Po Wah, Anna Sum, and Francis Yuen This completely revised edition provides a comprehensive guide to company secretarial procedures in Hong Kong. Written for students taking the ICSA professional examinations and for newly qualified company secretaries, it will also be of use to experienced company secretaries. The book features checklists of procedures encountered in practice and appendices of sample material and prescribed forms. This step-by-step guide is an invaluable source of reference for the busy company secretary. 63 LIBERATING THE CREATIVE SPIRIT IN ASIAN STUDENTS Ng Aik Kwang In his controversial bestseller Why Asians are Less Creative than Westerners, Dr Ng Aik Kwang argued that Asians are less creative than Westerners, because of their cultural background. However, he went on to assert that Asians can be as creative as their Western counterparts in the right environment. School teachers play an important role in making the environment right for creativity, by sowing the seeds of creativity in the Asian classroom. In recognition of this fact, Dr Ng has written this new book on liberating the creative spirit in Asian students. Three unique features characterize this book. First, it is based on the latest scientific research and findings on creativity. Second, it is written as a practical guide for creative teachers in the East. The reader will learn how Asian students from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore typically behave in the classroom. Finally, it is based on Dr Ng’s own experience of instructing novice and experienced teachers on how they can develop creativity in Asian students. Drawing on this experience, Dr Ng describes many real examples of what creative teachers do to get their students to realize their creative potential. About the Author Dr Ng Aik Kwang is the author of the controversial bestseller Why Asians are less creative than Westerners, which has been translated into the Chinese language. He lectures at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where he instructs novice and experienced teachers on how to nurture creativity in Asian students. His research interest is in the cultivation of creativity in the Asian classroom and society. He received an Early Career Research Award from the International Council of Psychologists for research excellence in 2001. ISBN: 981-244-643-5 2004, Paper, 368 pages 64 65 ISBN: 0-13-032898-7 2001, Paper, 208 pages I CAN CRE8! Peter Leong This book is written to share with others that creativity is more than about coming up with new ideas. It instructs on the theories and techniques of creativity and provides the reader with a systematic appreciation of the complex subject of creativity. It is certainly the first attempt that deals solely with the concept of creativity and its place in organizations. ISBN: 0-13-052812-9 1993, Paper, 448 pages ASIA’S CULTURAL MOSAIC An Anthropological Introduction Edited by Grant Evans This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Asia from an anthropological point of view, discussing themes concerning the economy, kinship, religion, gender, caste, and the state. ISBN: 981-4024-15-5 1999, Paper, 272 pages GROWING UP IN SINGAPORE Research Perspectives on Adolescents Edited by Agnes Chang Shook Cheong, S Gopinathan, and Ho Wah Kam This is the first book on adolescents in Singapore detailing three aspects of the Singapore adolescent – context, learning, and psychology. How different are Singaporean adolescents, brought up in an affluent, competitive society and exposed to Western education and influences, from their counterparts in other countries? The book seeks to address this question, while taking into account teenagers’ problems in adjusting to the changing expectations and social norms in fast-paced Singapore. Topics covered include adolescents’ ability to think and judge, their learning habits, their risk-taking behavior, their reaction to stress, and their curiousity about sex. 66 ISBN: 983-2473-91-8 2003, Paper, 302 pages ISBN: 983-2639-21-2 2003, Paper, 266 pages ISBN: 0-13-102533-3 (Paper) ISBN: 0-13-126678-0 (Case) 2003,160 pages THINKING HATS AND COLOURED TURBANS Creativity Across Cultures Kirpal Singh What makes up the creative impulse, the creative moment? In Thinking Hats and Coloured Turbans, Kirpal Singh, one of the most powerful voices in the international arena of creativity, offers insights and challenges on this fantastic topic. Written in a casual, personal, and often irreverent style, this book takes readers on a journey of exploration and discusses the socio-cultural and linguistics dimensions which influence notions of creativity. One highlight of the book is the inclusion of detailed case narratives of outstanding individuals from around the world, known for their creative thinking and innovative actions. MALAYSIAN STUDIES Nationhood and Citizenship Nazarudddin Mohd Jali, Ma'rof Redzuan, Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah, and Ismail Mohd Rashid This book is about Malaysia, the instruments, and the people who have built up the country. The book opens the pages of history, brings to fore many important constitutional issues, and also presents past political events right up to the attainment of independence. UNDERSTANDING MULTICULTURAL MALAYSIA Delights, Puzzles & Irritations Asma Abdullah and Paul B Pedersen This book is to prepare the reader (local or foreigner) to better understand the multicultural corridors of Malaysia. Foreigners who are in contact with Malaysians in diplomatic services, business, the tourism sector, and academics may find some clues to their puzzles in this book. It will give them hints and guidelines on how to increase their interpersonal effectiveness in their interaction with people from different cultures. 67 ISBN: 0-13-040475-6 2001, Paper, 248 pages WHY ASIANS ARE LESS CREATIVE THAN WESTERNERS Ng Aik Kwang This unique and authoritative book argues that Asians are less creative than their Western counterparts because of their cultural background. It examines the scientific evidence of creativity in these two cultures and highlights many real examples of creative behavior in the West and uncreative behavior in the East. 68 CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT Facilitating Teaching and Learning Edited by Myint Swe Khine, A Lourdusamy, Quek Choon Lang, and Angela F L Wong Classroom management is the key component in any teacher education program. It introduces beginning teachers to a learning journey about the dynamics of a learning environment. An effective teacher should be adept at facilitating learning, managing student behavior and maintaining orderliness in the classroom. To be able to do so, the teacher needs to acquire fundamental pedagogical knowledge and instructional skills. In this journey, the teacher acquires those essential knowledge and skills. Classroom Management is designed as a main text for undergraduate and postgraduate diploma courses in teaching and classroom management. The text guides beginning teachers to acquire an awareness of the dynamics of classroom teaching, realize the significance of interpersonal behavior on students’ learning, and develop and apply a repertoire of teaching strategies and skills for managing student learning and behavior. This book covers the basic theories, knowledge, and skills that pre-service trainee teachers need to be exposed to in order to prepare them to enter the classroom with confidence. Armed with these theories, knowledge, and skills it is envisaged that beginning teachers will be able to manage the teaching-learning activities and student behavior confidently in the classroom. About the Editors Dr Myint Swe Khine is an Associate Professor in the Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group at the NIE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has been teacher trainer for more than two decades, working in the Asia Pacific region. ISBN: 981-244-761-X 2005, Paper, 296 pages Dr Lourdusamy Atputhasamy is a Senior Fellow at the NIE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has been in the field of Learning Sciences and Technologies for the past 40 years and is familiar with teacher education in Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore. Dr Quek Choon Lang is an Assistant Professor in the Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group at the NIE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include classroom learning environments, gifted education, information technology, and interdisciplinary curriculum studies. Dr Angela F L Wong is an Associate Professor in the Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group at the NIE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She currently lectures in instructional technology and classroom management. 69 REFLECTING ON CLASSROOM COMMUNICATION IN ASIA Thomas Farrell Reflecting on Classroom Communication in Asia outlines and discusses various issues related to the patterns of classroom discourse in schools across Asia. Examples of these issues are how teachers can look for communication patterns in their classroom by analyzing the underlying structure of the communication, how teachers set up the academic task structure and the social participation structures, the kinds of questions teachers ask, and the type of communication group/project work promotes. Reflecting on Classroom Communication in Asia is designed to serve teachers who are interested in pursuing their own professional development. It can be used as a textbook for in-service teacher development courses as well as for learner teachers in teacher preparation courses. Its primary goal is to engage teachers, experienced or otherwise, teacher educators, principals, and administrators, in exploring reflective practice. About the Author Thomas SC Farrell received his PhD in Rhetoric and Linguistics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is a constructivist language teacher-educator who has published widely in international journals such as Teaching & Teacher Education, Journal of Education in Teaching, and The Teacher Trainer. ISBN: 0-13-127534-8 2004, Paper, 144 pages 70 TEACHING PRIMARY SCIENCE Edited by Yap Kueh Chin, Goh Ngoh Khang, Toh Kok Aun, and Bak Heng Kin Helping primary teachers to teach primary science is an important task that is best left to experienced and knowledgeable science educators. Based on their own vast experience and expertise, the authors have helped to ensure that the training and education of primary science teachers continue to be relevant. Primary science teachers will find that this book will help them to conceptualize various aspects of their own classroom practices. The contents in this book provide diverse areas of readings which a trainee or practising teacher would need to be knowledgeable about in the area of teaching science at the primary school level. Such readings range from science process skills and constructivist approaches to grasping with ethical issues. They are based on the wealth of experience and wisdom of contributors who have spent many years in pre-service and in-service teacher education. About the Editors Yap Kueh Chin, Goh Ngoh Khang, Toh Kok Aun, and Bak Heng Kin are all highly experienced and knowledgeable science educators who have made significant contributions to primary science teaching in Singapore and Malaysia. Together they have more than 120 years in the training and educating of science teachers in both countries. Individually, they have also made an impact in science and science teacher education through their papers and articles in national, regional, and international conferences and journals. ISBN: 981-244-641-9 2004, Paper, 368 pages 71 learning tasks and lessons. Key discussion areas include computer assisted language learning, digital literacy, IT and educational policy-making, digital scepticism, language testing and assessment, IT and the study of literature, and using computers with young learners. About the Authors Phillip A Towndrow read for an Honours degree in Philosophy in the late 1970s, and then began his career as an English language teacher in Bilbao, Spain. After obtaining a Master of Arts degree in Linguistics (TESOL), he moved to Singapore and taught communication skills. Phillip is now a teacher educator and researcher and holds a Doctorate of Education from the University of Durham, United Kingdom. Michael Vallance graduated with Honours in 1984 and taught engineering science and technical report writing at tertiary level in the UK until 1988. As a qualified educator, he has taught engineers, business students, university undergraduates, and post-graduate students. He has also trained teachers in Italy, Japan, and Singapore. He gained his combined Masters in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) & TESOL in 1996. ISBN: 0-13-127536-4 2004, Paper, 368 pages USING IT IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM A Guide for Teachers and Students in Asia Third Edition Philip Towndrow and Michael Vallance In education, especially language teaching, the relationship between an available technology and the prevailing methodology has always been two-way. Language teachers have been ready to use whatever technology was at hand. Initially methodology embraced technology; latterly, however, the technology either modified or profoundly altered the methodology. Knowing why Information Technology (IT) is useful is a key element in knowing how to use it effectively. How, then, can technology be used in an informed way? Using IT in the Language Classroom is an introductory text for teachers, students, and academics who need to understand and justify their roles in IT-rich language learning contexts. It aims to develop an awareness of the potential benefits and shortcomings associated with the use of IT in the design, production, and implementation of language For instructors: Instructor’s Manual Companion Website . Occupational Purposes courses at UiTM. 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