Conference Schedule

Day 1     Monday, 20th November 2017

Launching of UKM Integrated International Conference 2017 (UKM-IIC2017)

Putrajaya Ballroom
8.00 am                 Registration
9.00 am                 Opening Ceremony
10.00 am               Keynote I
10.30 am               Keynote II
11.00 am               Tea Break
11.30 am               Keynote II
12.00 noon            Keynote IV
12.00 pm               Keynote V
1.00 pm                 Lunch and Zohor Prayer

SoLS 2017 Conference, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Kelantan Rooms
2.15 pm                 Plenary I – Selangor Room
3.00 pm                 Panel Session 1, Parallel Sessions 1 to 3
4.00 pm                 Panel session 1 (cont’d), Parallel Sessions 4 to 6
5.00 pm                 Tea Break

Day 2     Tuesday, 21st November 2017
8.15 am                 Panel Session 2, Parallel Sessions 7 to 9
9.35 am                 Tea Break
10.00 am               Plenary II – Selangor Room
10.30 pm               Panel Session 3, Parallel Sessions 10 to 12
11.30 pm               Panel Session 3 (cont’d), Parallel Sessions 13 to 15
12.30 pm               Keynote – Selangor Room
1.15 pm                 Lunch and Zohor Prayer
2.00 pm                 Parallel Sessions 16 to 19
3.00 pm                 Panel Session 4, Parallel Session 20
4.20 pm                 Plenary III – Selangor Room
5.00 pm                 Closing and Tea

Conference Programme

Day 1                   Monday, 20th November 2017

SoLS2017 International Conference

2.15 – 2.20                            Welcome remark

2.20 – 3.00                            Plenary I: AP Dr. Hajar Abdul Rahim, Universiti Sains Malaysia
                                              Selangor Room
                                              Moderator: Prof Datin Dr Ruzy Suliza Hashim
   Malay Corpus Research in Malaysia: Current Trends and Future Directions

3.00 – 4.40                           
Panel 1                   Normalizing Socio-cultural imperfections in Contemporary Fiction: What is Visible in     Today’s Narrative?
 Selangor Room
  Moderator: AP Dr Raihanah M.M
  Panelists 1:
Adzura Elier, Raihanah M.M. and Ruzy Suliza Hashim
  Normalising Social Imbalance: Stereotype Priming in Dystopia
  Panelists 2: Ayshath, S.R, Raihanah M.M. and Ruzy Suliza Hashim
  Mother Indian Leitmotif in Minority Muslim Women Fiction: Normalising Cultural  
  Imperfections
  Panelists 3: M Ikbal M Alosman, Raihanah M.M. and Ruzy Suliza Hashim
  Socio-Cultural Imperfections of the Other: Updike's Enmity in Terrorist
                               Panelists 4: Seyedeh Robabeh Zabihzadeh, Raihanah M.M. and Ruzy Suliza Hashim
  Misrepresentation of Islam in Amy Waldman’s The Submission
                               Panelists 5: Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Raihanah M.M. and Ruzy Suliza Hashim
  The ‘Sanctity’ of Imperfection: Forgiveness in Popular Television (TV) Fiction

3.00 – 4.00                           
Parallel 1             Textual Analysis
Kuala Lumpur Room
                             Moderator: AP Dr Nor Fariza Mohd Nor
Presenter 1:
Ang Leng Hong
Identifying Lexical Connections Using Collocation Networks: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Connectivity between Collocates
Presenters 2: Zahra Nasirizadeh, Shamala Paramasivam and Vahid Nimehchisalem
Genre Analysis of Rhetorical Structure of Forestry Research Articles
Presenters 3: Syazliyati Ibrahim, Fathiyah Ahmad @ Ahmad Jali and Azni Syafena Andin Salamat
A Thematic Exploration of Adibah Amin’s Journalistic Writings

3.00 – 4.00
Parallel 2              Language Learning and Technology
Penang Room
                             Moderator: AP Dr Rosniah Mustaffa
Presenters 1:
Shahirah Sulaiman, Supyan Hussin, Zaini Amir and Radzuwan Ab Rashid
Students’ Choice of Communication Strategies in a 3.0 mLearning Interaction
Presenters 2:
Amr Abdullatif Yassin, Norizan Abdul Razak and Tg Nor Rizan Tg Mohamad Maasum
M-Language Learning Model: A Theoretical Perspective
Presenters 3: Dhayapari Perumal, Shanthini Pillai and Melissa Shamini Periasamy
Apt Apps for the Transnational Children

3.00 – 4.00
Parallel 3              Metadiscourse / Intertextuality
Kelantan Room
                             Moderator: AP Dr Norsimah Mat Awal
Presenter 1:
Mengyu HE
The Use of Interactive Resources to Understand the Variations between Research Articles and Popularisations
Presenters 2: Musa Al-Mudhaffari and Norsimah Mat Awal
Variations of Textual and Interpersonal Metadiscourse Strategies in Arabic and English Newspaper Opinion Articles
Presenter 3: Kumaran Rajandran
Intertextuality in Malaysian Sustainability Reports.

4.00 – 5.00                           
Parallel 4              Language Teaching and Learning
Kuala Lumpur Room
                             Moderator: Dr Kesumawati Abu Bakar
Presenters 1:
Fathiyah Ahmad @ Ahmad Jali, Shahriza Ilyana Ramli, Rafidah Amat and Syazliyati Ibrahim
Using Scavenger Hunt to Enrich Primary School Student Vocabulary
Presenters 2: Khairunnadiah Mohd Samuddin and Pramela Krish
English Spelling Difficulties among Young Malay Learners
Presenters 3: Omar Ahmed Badr Al-Mashhadani, Ravichandran Vengadasamy and Norsimah Mat Awal
Metaphor Identification and Comprehension by Iraqi Postgraduate EFL Learners

4.00 – 5.00                           
Parallel 5              Analisis Leksikal, Sintaksis dan Semantik
Penang Room
                             Moderator: Dr Intan Safinaz Zainudin
Presenters 1:
Harishon Radzi, Nor Hashimah Jalaluddin and Junaini Kasdan
Perubahan Politik Dan Penyatuan Dialek: Analisis Leksikal Dialek Melayu Kedah Di Satun Dan Pulau Tuba
Presenters 2: Nor Hazila binti Mat Lazim and Sharifah Raihan Syed Jaafar
Delikuidasi Kata Pinjaman Arab dalam Dialek Kelantan
Presenters 3: Intan Safinaz Zainudin, Siti Mardhiah Amran and Anis Nadiah Che Abdul Rahman
Analisis Frame Semantics dan Kulturomik dalam Kajian Leksikografi Dwibahasa

4.00 – 5.00                           
Parallel 6              Multilingualism and the Mind
Kelantan Room
                             Moderator: AP Dr. Pramela Krish N. Krishnasamy
Presenters 1:
Mahanita Mahadhir, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor and Hazita Azman
Heritage Legitimacy of Mixed-Heritage Individuals Lacking in Heritage Language Abilities
Presenters 2:
Rozainee Khairudin and Mozghan Valipour
Effects of Emotion on Bilingual Unconscious Memory Retrieval
Presenter 3: Vahid Aryadoust
Understanding Mental Imagery Elaborations in Listening Test

5.00                                     Tea (Selangor Foyer)
                                               
Day 2                   Tuesday, 21st November 2017

8.15 – 9.35                           
Panel 2                 Psycholinguistics@SoLS.UKM
Selangor Room
                             Moderator:  AP Dr Khazriyati Salehuddin
Panelists 1:
Khazriyati Salehuddin, Mizhanim Mohd Shahimin, Mohamed Zain Sulaiman and Rasyiqah Batrisya Md Zolkapli
Reading to Memorize the Qur’an: Tracking The Eye Movements to Explore the Cognitive Processes
Panelists 2: Rasyiqah Batrisya Md Zolkapli and Khazriyati Salehuddin
Learning English through Arabic Using the English Translation of the Qur’an:
Developing a Module
Panelists 3: Nur Ainil Sulaiman, Khazriyati Salehuddin, Mohamed Zain Sulaiman and Rozainee Khairudin
Process and Effect of Emotion on Reading the English Translation of the Qur’an
                             Panelists 4: Suriani Mohd Yusof, Zalina Mohd Lazim, Khazriyati Salehuddin and Mizhanim Mohd Shahim
Good and Poor Readers Reading Graphic Novels: A Gaze Plot Analysis

8.15 – 9.35                           
Parallel 7             Bahasa Antarabangsa
Kuala Lumpur Room
                             Moderator:  AP Dr Ashinida Aladdin
Presenters 1:
Mardhiyyah binti Zamani and Jamal Rizal bin Razali
Kajian Analisis Kesalahan Gramatikal dan Sintaksis Penggunaan Bahasa Arab dalam Kalangan Pelajar Universiti Malaysia Pahang
Presenters 2:
Ruthra Devi Tharumalay,Wan Shahrazad Wan Sulaiman, Azianura Hani Shaari, Mariamal Surinarayanan and Mohammad Rahim Kamaluddin
Kesahan dan Kebolehpercayaan Alat Ujian Agresif Buss dan Perry Dalam Bahasa Tamil dalam Kalangan Pelajar Sekolah Tamil di Malaysia
Presenter 3: Rosjuliana Hidayu binti Haji Rosli
Aplikasi Rentak Lagu “Children Rhymes” Dalam Mengingati Perkataan Arab Bagi Mahasiswa Kejuruteraan Universiti Malaysia Pahang
Presenter 4: Azlina Mohd Ariffin
Penggunaan Lagu Keraian “Happy Birthday” dalam Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Bahasa Sepanyol Tahap Permulaan Sebagai Alat Mudah Ingat (Kosa Kota Di Dalam Kelas)

8.15 – 9.35                           
Parallel 8             Teaching and Learning English
Penang Room
                             Moderator: AP Dr. Marlyna Maros
Presenters 1:
Lee Siew Chin and Tng Cheah Kiu Choon
Using of English Prepositions by Malaysian Chinese Undergraduates: “A Language Gap”
Presenters 2: Elham Salem Al-Makatrah, Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin and Mohamed Zain Sulaiman
The Markedness Variability of Do-Support in Negation and Inversion among Arabic Speaking Learners of English
Presenters 3: Noor Hayati Romli, Mohd Sallehhudin Abd Aziz and Pramela Krish N. Krishnasamy
The Use of L1 in the L2 Classroom: Some Theoretical Perspectives
Presenters 4: Noraza binti Ahmad Zabidi and Lee Siew Chin
Bridging Design Thinking with Learning Grammar in the Foundation English Course

8.15 – 9.35                           
Parallel 9              Malaysian / Malay Context
Kelantan Room
                             Moderator: Dr Zalina Mohd Lazim
Presenters 1:
Ariezal Afzan Hassan and Idris Aman
The Commercialization of Public Universities in Malaysia: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Malaysian University Websites
Presenters 2: Imran Ho Abdullah, Anis Nadiah Che Abdul Rahman and Azhar Jaludin
Malaysia Hansard Corpus: The Parliamentary Documents in Malay/ Malaysian Setting
Presenters 3: Nurafazeera binti Yunus and Zalina Mohd Kasim
GST Metaphors in Malaysian Print Media
Presenters 4: Azu Farhana Anuar and Shamala Paramasivam
Malay-English Code-mixing Insertion: Pluralization of –s into Malay Lexical Items

9.35 - 10.00                         Tea Break (Selangor Foyer)

10.00 – 10.30                     Plenary II: Encik Amir Muhammad, Founder of Buku Fixi and Matahari Books
Selangor Room
Moderator: AP Dr Noraini Yusof
This Business Called Publishing
                                               
10.30 – 12.30                      
Panel 3                 A Culturomics Study of the Malaysian Hansard
Selangor Room
                             Moderator: AP Dr Nor Fariza Mohd Nor
Panelists 1:
Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Imran Ho Abdullah, Jamaluddin Aziz and Anis Nadiah
Categories of Collocates for the Word ‘Terrorist’ in the Malaysian Parliament Hansard Report
Panelists 2: Norsimah Mat Awal, Azhar Jalaludin and Jamaludin Aziz
State Issues Debated in Parliamentary Debates
Panelists 3: Tan Kim Hua, Imran Ho Abdullah, Muhammad Khair Abd Razak and Ahmad Aminuddin Soopar
Semantic Categories of Approximators in the Malaysian Parliamentary Debates
                             Panelists 4: Afendi Hamat, Azhar Jaludin, Imran Ho Abdullah and Anis Nadiah Che Abdul Rahman
Statistical Analysis of Malaysian Parliamentary Hansards Based Around the May 1969 Event.
                             Panelists 5: Jamaluddin Aziz, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Azhar Jalaluddin and Norsimah Mat Awal
Media Censorship and Policy Concerns: An Exploratory Study
Panelists 6: Marlyna Maros, Azianura Hani Shaari, Azhar Jaludin and Anis Nadiah Che Abdul Rahman
Comparing Patterns of ‘Bahasa Malaysia’ and ‘Bahasa Inggeris’ Lexicons in the Malaysian Parliamentary Corpus

10.30 – 11.30                      
Parallel 10            Socio-political, Socio-cultural Spaces
Kuala Lumpur Room
                             Moderator: Dr Melissa Shamini Perry
Presenters 1:
Zalina Mohd Lazim and Azhar Jaludin
Advocacy through Interlok: The Interplay between Socio-Cultural and Political Issues
Presenters 2: Tahmineh Tourani, Noraini Md Yusof and Shahizah Ismail Hamdan
The Socio-Political Significance of Khaled Hosseini’s Novels: Pursuance of Humanitarian Issues through Fiction
Presenters 3: Ramesh Loganathan, Shanthini Pillai and Pramela Krish
Accented Spatial Representations in the Internal Exilic Eelam-Tamil Film Viduthalai Moochu

10.30 – 11.30                      
Parallel 11            Assessment
Penang Room
                             Moderator: Emma
Presenters 1:
Ma Fei Fan, Mohd Sallehhudin Abd Aziz and Siti Hamin Stapa
Investigating Assessment for Learning (AfL) in Chinese Primary Schools: Designing a Conceptual Framework
Presenters 2:
Mazidah Mohamed, Mohd Sallehhudin Abd Aziz and Kemboja Ismail
Qualitative Validation of the AfLAi instrument
Presenters 3: Shahizah Ismail Hamdan, Amrah Abdul Majid and Ravichandran Vengadasamy
Shaping 21st Century Skills for the Workplace through Literature: An Assessment Based on Documentary Production

10.30 – 11.30                      
Parallel 12           Language and Electronic Media
Kelantan Room
                             Moderator: Dr Suziana Mat Saad
Presenters 1:
Norizan Abdul Razak and Nurain Jantan Anua Jah
Effective E-Commerce Training On Copywriting for Women Entrepreneurs
Presenters 2: Nurain Jantan Anua Jah and Norizan Abdul Razak
Effective Online Writing Strategies in Social Media: A Case Study
Presenters 3: Rizal Yaakop, Suhaimee Saahar, Ali Salman and Sharifah Aluya Ali
Political Blogging Phenomenon to Understand Information Behaviour and Digital Technology Use

11.30 – 12.30                      
Parallel 13           History and Contemporaneity
Kuala Lumpur Room
                             Moderator: AP Dr Shanthini Pillai
Presenters 1:
Erda Wati Bakar, Noraini Md Yusuf and Ravichandran Vengadasamy
Dramatising History: Carnival and Ambivalent Laughter in Kee Thuan Chye’s Plays
Presenters 2: Melissa Shamini Perry and Ravichandran Vengadasamy
Feasting on Cultures. Food as a Unifying and Dividing Agent in Multicultural/Transcultural Malaysia
Presenter 3:
Fatkhiddin Mansurov
Risalah Dar Adab Al-Tariqah: As a Contribution to the Contemporary Sufism

11.30 – 12.30                      
Parallel 14           Oral and Aural
Penang Room
                             Moderator: Dr Ng Lay Shi
Presenters 1:
Jafar Batiha, Rosniah Mustaffa and Noorizah Mohd Noor
Strategies and Techniques to Reduce Speaking Anxiety When Speaking the English Language as Perceived by Jordanian Freshmen Learners
Presenters 2: Fatima Ali Salah Lardhi, Noor Raha Mohd Radzuan and Abdelmadjid Benraghda
Arab EFL Learners’ Mispronunciation of English Language Consonant Sounds
Presenters 3: Almagul Tuspekova, Rosniah Mustaffa and Kemboja Ismail
Investigating English Oral Communication Practices in Secondary School Classrooms in Kazakhstan

11.30 – 12.30                      
Parallel 15           Performance, Strategies and Motivation
Kelantan Room
                             Moderator:  Puan Norwati Md Yusof
Presenters 1:
Ala'a Ismael Challob, Nadzrah Abu Bakar and Hafizah Latif
Using Online Collaborative Peer Reviewing to Enhance EFL Students' Individual and Collaborative Writing Performance
Presenters 2: Shah Mohammad Sanaul Karim, Tengku Nor Rizan Tg Mohamad Maasum and Hafizah Latif
Strategy Instruction for Compare-Contrast Paragraph Writing
Presenters 3: Fuzirah Hashim, Siti Hamin Stapa, Kesumawati Abu Bakar and Ali Awwad
Attitude and Motivation of FELDA Youths towards Learning English as a Global Language

12.30-1.15                          Keynote address: Mr. Adam Brimo, CEO, OpenLearning Global.
Selangor Room
Moderator: Dr Ravichandran Vengadasamy

Language Studies and the OpenLearning platform

1.15 - 2.00                          Lunch (Lobby Lounge) and Zohor prayer

2.00 – 3.00                           
Parallel 16            Language and Gender
Selangor Room
                             Moderator:  Farrah
Presenters 1:
Amanina Kamarudin, Marlyna Maros and Ruzy Suliza Hashim
Masculinity Reaffirms Male Domination in Patriarchal Society: Generation Z’s Responses to Gender Discourses
Presenters 2: Siti Nasriah Ramli
Understanding the Use of Emoji and Stickers in Facebook: Gender and Social Context
Presenters 3: Florence Toh Haw Ching and Agnes Liau Wei Lin
Self-efficacy to Empower Resistance and Solidarity Against Patriarchy in Jacqueline Wilson’s Lily Alone

2.00 – 3.00                           
Parallel 17           Language Learning and Technology
Kuala Lumpur Room
                             Moderator: Mr Azhar Jaludin
Presenters 1:
Shahirah Sulaiman, Supyan Hussin and Zaini Amir
The Challenges in Fostering Peer Interaction among Students in mLearning
Presenters 2: Mohd Hafiszudin bin Mohd Amin and Nadzrah Abu Bakar
Blended Learning to Learn Presentation Skills
Presenters 3: Sidra Naim and Norizan Abdul Razak
The Impact of Tell Me More Software on Low Proficiency Students’ Contextual Skills

2.00 – 3.00                           
Parallel 18           Translation across Disciplines
Penang Room
                             Moderator: Dr Normalis Amzah
Presenters 1:
Yasir Ahmed Mohammed, Husam Rashid Hammod, Saramad Mohammed Essa and Maysoon Kadhim Ali
The English Translation of "al-Qadr" in the Quranic Text
Presenters 2: Norwati Md Yusof, Imran Ho Abdullah and Nor Fariza Md Noor
The Malaysian Hansard Parliamentary Discourse for Translation Trending Analysis
Presenters 3: Intan Safinaz Zainudin and Normalis Amzah
The Phenomenon of Anime and Fansubbing among UKM Students: A Pilot Study

2.00 – 3.00                           
Parallel 19           Analisis Teks
                             Moderator:  Siti Mardhiah Amran
Kelantan Room
Presenters 1:
Hasnoor Shima Ahmad Hassan and Fadzeli Jaafar
Merealisasikan Sisi Manusiawi Rasulullah dalam Novel Sejarah Islam
Presenters 2: Muhammad Zakwan bin Mohd Izam and Azhar bin Jaludin
Penukaran Kod dalam Teks Parlimen: Analisis Linguistik Korpus
Presenters 3: Suziana Mat Saad and Intan Safinaz Zainuddin
Metafora MARAH dalam Salina dan Terjemahannya dalam Bahasa Perancis: Satu Analisis Semantik Kognitif

3.00 – 4.20                           
Panel 4                 The Redesigned Classroom: A New Frontier in Language Teaching and Learning
Selangor Room
Moderator:  Prof. Dr Radha M.K. Nambiar
Panelists 1: Radha M.K. Nambiar Noorizah Mohd Noor Kemboja Ismail and Shahira Adam
The Redesigned Classroom Project
Panelists 2: Kemboja Ismail, Radha M.K. Nambiar, Noorizah Mohd Noor and Shahira Adam
Impact of Redesigned Classroom on Teacher Pedagogy
Panelists 3: Noorizah Mohd Noor, Radha M.K. Nambiar, Kemboja Ismail and Shahira Adam
Effect of Redesigned Classroom on Malaysian Secondary Students’ Learning Behaviour
Panelists 4: Shahira Adam and Radha M.K. Nambiar
Evidence of 21st Century Skills and the Effect of Motivation

3.00 – 4.00                           
Parallel 20            Alienation / Alterity
                             Moderator:  Emma
Kuala Lumpur Room
Presenter 1:
Anita Harris Satkunananthan
Alternate Hierarchies and Monstrous Futures: Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Re-envisioned Cultures in the Spirit Binder novels
Presenters 2: Latifa Ismaeel Jabboury, Ruzy Suliza Hashim and Anita Harris Satkunananthan
Alienation via Intersectionality: Observations of Interconnectedness in Kennedy’s Movie Star
Presenter 3: Christopher Quah Wai Kheong, Anita Harris Satkunananthan and Shahizah Ismail Hamdan
The Other Side of Redwall: Othering and Stereotypes

4.20 – 5.00                         Plenary III: Datin Kathleen Chew Wai Lin, YTL Group Legal Counsel, Programme Director of the YTL Foundation         
Frog Classrooms: A Transformation Journey
Selangor Room
Moderator:  Prof. Dr Radha M.K. Nambiar

5.00                                    Closing and Tea