Please visit the following URLs for details :

http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2009/6/20/southneast/4100262&sec=southneast

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/6/15/nation/4120144&sec=nation

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Friday/National/2580296/Article/index_html

MELTA with its supporting partner – EXPOMAL organized the 2009 MELTA-Smart Kids Way with Words Competition, in conjunction with the Smart Kids 2009 fair held on 11 April 2009, at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur. Many teams from various schools participated in both the upper primary and lower secondary school levels. The competition gave the much needed exposure for students to showcase their spelling prowess and language use abilities.

The following are the list of winners of the WWW competition:

Upper Primary Category

1st prize – RM500 + certificates + hamper : SK St. Paul, Seremban, Negeri Sembilan
2nd prize – RM300 + certificates + hamper : SK Menjalara, Kuala Lumpur
3rd prize – RM200 + certificates + hamper : SK Seafield, Subang Jaya


Lower Secondary Category

1st prize – RM500 + certificates + hamper : SMK Undang Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan
2nd prize – RM300 + certificates + hamper : MRSM Terendak, Melaka
3rd prize – RM200 + certificates + hamper : SM Agama Dato’ Klana Petra Maamor, Negeri Sembilan.


The organizing committee would like to extend a big thank you to all individuals who contributed either directly or indirectly to the success of the event.

Contributors are invited to submit papers which focus on the use of alternative assessment strategies to develop various literacies within the context of education institutions, for the workplace or the larger world. The papers should highlight how alternative and creative assessment strategies built within them conscious and unconscious learning opportunities lead to the development of multi and multiple literacies. Articles may focus on English Language teaching, teaching of literature or the use of English in content area teaching specifically the teaching of Mathematics and Science. Both research-based articles and classroom application articles are invited. Amongst the literacies that may be focused on are:

1. Critical Thinking
–Meaning-making, understanding contexts, transferring
knowledge and skill, learning new skills,
–responding to change, decision-making, exploring new
business opportunities

2. Information literacy
– Sifting and evaluating information, recording and retrieving
information etc

3. Computer literacy
–Purposes and possibilities of applications, understanding
of terminology, ability to interact with tools to produce
meaningful outcomes (!)

4. Multimedia literacy
–Making meaning from media with a variety of meaning
systems

5. Visual literacy
–Interpreting and generating images for communicating
ideas and concepts, deliberately manipulating images to
alter the viewers’ experience

6. Financial literacy
–Making informed decisions about the use and management
of money, financial competence and responsibility

7. Spoken and Written Communication
-Reading and writing printed text
-Speaking and listening
-Understanding workplace culture and goals
-Looking for competitive edge, meeting regulatory
requirements, flattening organisational structures

8. Social literacy
-Corporate citizenship
-Operating within social and cultural structures
-Ethical and social awareness




Correspondence :

Ganakumaran Subramaniam, email: gnana39@hotmail.com

Shanthini Pillai, email: spillai2900@hotmail.com

CALL FOR ARTICLES: Discourse Analysis in Malaysian English Language Teaching It is a known fact that Language Acquisition does not proceed merely with the hard-and-fast rules that students are exposed to in the language classroom. Other factors play significant roles in contributing to language learning and acquisition. Amongst these is the discourse of English language teaching and learning in the classroom. While studies on discourse analysis in English language teaching in general are readily available, we lack those that narrow it specifically to the context of the Malaysian classroom. Contributors are invited to submit chapters that focus on Discourse Analysis in Malaysian English Language Teaching. The proposed book will be useful to Malaysian English language educators as well as researchers of second language learning and acquisition as it will shed light on understanding the various processes that contribute to students’ language acquisition in the classroom. Please contact Dr. Normala Othman (meltaseries@gmail.com) for submission of abstracts and full papers.

Please read the following article for details

http://thestar.com.my:80/news/story.asp?file=/2009/3/26/nation/3558868&sec=nation