UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

COURSE INFORMATION (SEMESTER MAR-AUG 2022)

COURSE: ALS 630

RESOURCE PERSON: MR. AZRIN RAIMI BIN AHMAD
MODE: ODL / *BL (*% F2F & ODL)
*For BL, please indicate the weeks for F2F

1. REVISED WEEKLY SCHEDULE

WEEKS (New) ALS426 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Course Introduction
Assessments for this course
1
Session1: F2F Review of Reading Strategies: Literal Comprehension
Session 2: BL Main/implied main ideas, supporting details,vocabulary

Applying of Reading Strategies:

Advanced level reading passage
2
Session1: F2F Class Activity
Session 2: BL Students to read text and answer questions applying the reading
strategies learnt.

Critical Comprehension: author’s intent, tone, argument

presented in the passage, drawing logical conclusions
3 Class Activity
Session1: BL Students to read the passage and critically analyse the text.
Session 2: F2F Students to identify the argument presented in the passage.
Comment on the attitude of the author. Pick out the language
depicting the tone.
Students to draw logical conclusions.

Cont.. Develop critical comprehension:

Identifying controversial issue
Making Assumptions

Watch the following video:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-we-need-to-fight-
4 misinformation-about-vaccines/id470623037?i=1000443554866
Session1: BL
Session 2: F2F Class Activity :
1. Discuss why vaccination is a controversial issue.
2.What are some of the assumptions the author made about
misinformation on vaccination.

1
 Writing:
Write to the editor of The Star on your views about vaccination in
Malaysia.

cont…. Critical Comprehension

Evaluate Argument Issues, Implications, assumptions,

completeness of argument, Inference vs Implication ,Inference vs
5 Conclusions
Session1: BL
Session 2: F2F
Class Activity
Students to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqSxjmvXzzY
and write out 2 inferences and 2 conclusions based on the video they
watched

Revision for Test

6 Do past year tests.
Session1: BL
Session 2: F2F
Evaluation - TEST ( 2 Hrs)

Revision for Academic Writing

Literature Review Assignment to be given to students
Students to use the book “Academic Writing Matters! A comprehensive
Guidebook for Academic writing ( Feb 2020 Mc Graw Hill) Complimentary
book ( and hard /soft copy of answer key) for lecturer is available at ABA
Book Store.
Lecturer to revise the following topics
• APA Documentation
• Paraphrasing Summarising,
• Quoting,
• Synthesizing
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Session1: BL Class Activity:
Session 2: BL
Students to do the following exercises
Chapter 3 pg 49-51
Chapter 4 pg 79 to 81
Chapter 5 Practice 3
Chapter 6 pg 165 to 168
Upload your answers to your personal folder in Google classroom .
The lecturer will discuss the answers with you and highlight the key
points on the above topics.

Writng literature review:

8 Session1: BL
Session 2: F2F Students to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry_54WleO7Y
a brief introduction to literature review

2
 Go through the slides presented by your lecturer on
• What is Literature review?
• Why do literature review
• Different types of literature reviews
• Structure of literature review

Choosing Topic and

Literature review Matrix

***Students will work in groups of three or less.

Each group to decide on a topic and discuss with the class lecturer.
When choosing topic, each group to come up with two possible topics
which will be used for literature review assignment and poster
presentation project.
Class activity/Take Home exercise:
For each topic, read at least 4 articles and upload in the group’s
folder. To ensure that students read the articles, evaluative annotated
bibliography for each of the articles must be uploaded too. (Refer to
Academic Writing Matter! Chapter 7 for evaluative annotated
bibliography)
Each group to discuss topic with lecturer. Students can only use
lecturer approved topics. There should not be duplication of topics
and students caught using seniors’ work will fail this course.
Lecturer to instruct students on how to do a literature review matrix.
Sample of lit review matrix will be provided .
Students to search for suitable articles .
A minimum of 15 articles to be used for the lit review matrix.
Students to prepare the lit review matrix.

Writing a standalone literature review

( Work on assignment)

Discussion, practice ex on writng literature review, assignment

Provide students with ONE sample standalone lit review . Discuss

and analyse the standalone lit review.
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Class Activity:
Session1: BL Practice writing standalone literature review
Session 2: F2F
(All articles used need to be uploaded on the folder
Complete the assignment and submit to Turnitin. Similarity report
should be less than 30 % .
Assignment due on week 10 . Upload assignment to group folder.
Include literature review matrix and similarity report in the
appendices)
10
Project : Poster Presentation

3
 Project sheet to be distributed to students.
Session1: BL
Session 2: F2F Students will remain in the same group.
Lecturers to show sample posters.
Lecturer to go through slides on Steps to create a poster
Refer to chapter 11 : How to create a conference poster. From
Academic Writing Matters! Book

Class Activity
Do exercises on how to write research questions Page 223.
cont.. Create a research poster: extracting information,
synthesizing ,draft poster

Group activity:
Groups to come up with the 2 to 3 research questions based on the
lit. review topic . Groups to discuss the research questions with class
lecturer and fine tune the Research questions
11
Lecturer to check and monitor group’s work. Lecturer to check
Session1: BL research questions.
Session 2: F2F
Groups to work on the findings for methods and findings of the poster

* All materials used and written for the poster presentation need to be
uploaded to the group folder.

Cont.. Discussion on content, layout, design , text, editing

Conclusion , Discussion, Introduction,
Finalizing content of Poster

12 Consultation with Lecturer:

Lecturers to supervise the content written for the poster.
Session1: BL
Session 2: F2F Group Activity
Students to write the conclusion, discussion and introduction section

Virtual Poster Presentation Exhibition:

Preparation of additional material , handling questions/feedback,
uploading poster to YouTube.

Group Activity:
13 Students to start drawing out the layout of the poster in consultation
with the class lecturer.
Session1: BL
Session 2: F2F Video recording and editing poster.
Uploading virtual poster to YouTube.

Oral Presentation
Session1: BL
14
Session 2:F2F Oral presentation, submission of project, course feedback

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 2. CHANGES IN ASSESSMENT

CURRENT (March 2020) PROPOSED (Oct-Feb2021)

CLO
Wk ASSESSMENT Wk ASSESSMENT*
Examine critically journalistic • TEST (20%) 6 • TEST
and academic articles in the
field of Social Sciences and
humanities
CLO 2
Demonstrate critical • Assignment : Standalone 10 • Assignment :
understanding and Literature Review + SLR Standalone Literature
professionalism through Matrix (30%) Review
literature review in the field
of social sciences and
humanities
CLO6
Organize information • VirtualPoster Presentation • VirtualPoster
management through poster (30%) 13 Presentation /Oral
presentation in the field of Presentation
Social Sciences and
Humanities
CLO8
Demonstrate effective • Oral Presentation (20%) 14 • Oral Presentation
communication in research
presentation in the field of
Social sciences and
Humanities
CLO5

3. ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

WEEK ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTION INFO

6 TEST

10 STANDALONE LITERATURE REVIEW (SLR) SLR (25%)

SLR is the second assignment that carries 30%. This includes 5% of SLR Matrix (5%)
SLR Matrix. Group/Individual

13 VIRTUAL POSTER PRESENTATION 30%

Poster presentation ( group work)carries 30 %.evaluated on the Group Work
poster itself ( content, visuals, layout etc refer to descriptors) . At
the poster presentation , audience may ask questions / comments
etc. Oral presentation ( individual marks) based on class
presentation of the poster ( to include questions, comments from
public and how they handled the Q&A. ( Refer to descriptors)
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 For poster presentation , you can use the following book, Chapter
11: Creating Conference Posters
- steps to create a poster
- selecting content
- layout and design

Sample
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXMqvGBCagZU1mQXHKR98XA/.

14 ORAL PRESENTATION