EDU 452

ACADEMIC SKILL

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL 10

Name : Nur Fatma Hanis binti Abdullah Sani

Student ID : 2014665254
Lecturer’s name : Miss Asmahan binti Abd Razak
 From previous class of Academic Skill with Miss Asmahan, I have learnt a lot from my

friend’s presentation. There are six presenters from this week include Soleh Hudin, Hafiz

Nordin, Syawanie Nabilah, Nurul Zakiah, Nur Alyani and NorBaiti. The topic that have been

chosen were interesting and most were related to our daily life.

The first presenter is Soleh Hudin. The title of his presentation is ‘Dengue is on the rise’

and he presented about how to decrease the dengue rate. He mentioned that Selangor was

highlighted as a city that has the highest rate of dengue. The symptom that can be found on the

people who diagnosed with this disease is they may suffer 3-4 days of fever and this fever can

cause death.

One of the way to decrease the dengue rate is by using Abate larvacide to prevent the

mosquitoes from laying egg. There is BTI in the Abate which is in the form of crystal and it can

kill the larvae. The uses of personal repellents that contain DEET also can reduce the dengue

rate. Besides, pyrethrins solution also can acts as a powerful insect repellent even it is low in

toxicity and save for use. It can be extracted from chrysanthemum flower.

The next presenter is Hafiz Nordin. The title of his presentation is ‘Melanoma skin cancer

can be a silent killer’ and he presented about how to avoid from suffering Melanoma skin cancer.

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that occur specifically in our mole. One the way to prevent

this type of skin cancer is by avoiding from exposing too much under the UV light. The source

of UV light is of course from sunlight and it also can be found on tanning both. We also must do

a skin-self examine to detect for the abnormal mole that can cause Melanoma. Besides, we also

must kept our body in good health condition.

 Syawanie Nabilah presented about the benefits of Stevia Rebaudiana leaves with the title

of her presentation is ‘The Miracle Sweetener in the World’. This leaf can control diabetic as by

using it as sweetener, we can reduce our sugar level intake because it three hundred times

sweeter than sugar. It also can stabilize blood sugar in our body. The Stevia Rebaudiana also can

normalize our blood pressure because it can relaxing the muscular. Besides, this leaf also can

reduce wrinkles and fine lines because it contain retinoic acid that thwarts the progression of

wrinkles and it also can reduce sebum (cholesterol) production.

‘Benefits of green tea in preventing disease’ is the title of presentation by Nurul Zakiah.

Green tea is an antioxidants plant that can prevent numerous types of diseases. First, green tea

can prevent cancer. It will inhibit the growth of cancer cell and protect the normal cell.

Neurodegenerative disease is one of the disease that can be prevented by the uses of green tea as

it can prevent neurotoxin and induced cell injure. Besides, green tea also can overcome obesity

because it can modified appetite control and can alter fat metabolism.

The next presenter is Nur Alyani. The title of her presentation is ‘I Hear Voice’ and her

topic is about scyhlezophenia. Scyhlezophenia including hallucination, delusion and thought

disorder. There are three types of hallucination. First is auditory hallucination, second is visual

hallucination and third is somatic-tactile hallucination. People who suffer auditory hallucination

tend to listen something which did not listen by others and people who suffer visual hallucination

tend to see something which did not exist. Somatic-tactile hallucination is a rare and people who

suffer with this type of hallucination can feel what other people cannot feel. There are two types

of delusion. First is paranoid delusion and second is delusion of reference. Paranoid delusion is

about being too negative or paranoid of something.

 The last presenter for that day is NorBaiti with ‘Dyslexic are not helpless’ as her title of

presentation. She presented about affective method in teaching dyslexic student. There are many

signs of dyslexia such as delayed speech, poor spelling and others. NorBaiti has mentioned three

methods include Orton-Gillinghan method, phonological awareness and specific instructional

techniques. Orton-Gillinghan method is about using multisensory method while phonological

awareness is about phonological processing and letters represents different phoenemes. Specific

instructional techniques is about multisensory instruction and instruction of phonics that consist

of synthetic and analytic.