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Asam Pedas Untuk Dia

AKU AININ SOFIYA, hanya seorang pembantu rumah separuh masa. Tugasku bukan setakat mengemas rumah, malah urusan dapur diserahkan kepadaku. Buat pertama kalinya, asam pedasku mendapat pujian. Dalam diam, aku diintai oleh salah seorang anak majikanku, Ahmad Ziyad. Rupa-rupanya, asam pedasku menjadi kegemarannya. Namun tidak kusangka, dia ingin melamarku, hanya kerana ingin membantuku dari segi kewangan. Aku bukan mata duitan! Aku hanya bekerja di rumahnya dengan hasil usahaku sendiri. Setelah berfikir panjang, aku menerima lamarannya, tetapi dia meletakkan syarat. Perkahwinan ini harus dirahsiakan daripada pengetahuan keluarga dan teman wanitanya. Aku juga tidak dibenarkan hamil. Malah, aku tidak dimaafkan jika perkara itu berlaku. Sampai bila aku harus berlakon dan menyorok statusku? Jiwaku terseksa menjadi isteri rahsianya walaupun halal di sisi agama. Ziyad seolah-olah tidak memahami perasaanku. Hidupku terseksa dengan permainannya sehingga takdir menentukan aku hamil anaknya!

Understanding and Interpreting Data on the Learning of English Tenses and Verb Forms

Guiding learners to acquire sufficient knowledge of grammar constitutes an interesting domain in the field of teaching English as a second language. This research-based resource book focuses on the learning of English tenses and verbal categories, which forms a huge and fascinating component of English grammar that merits attention in teachers’ attempts to improve their students’ English proficiency. Inspired by concepts relating to explicit learning, consciousness raising, contrastive analysis and error analysis, the author used a wealth of data derived from a set of elicitation procedures to reveal the linguistic interference encountered by second language learners. Arguing for the need to conceptualise grammatical rules positively, this inquiry focuses on studying learners’ wide-ranging responses to a large number of items designed to explore linguistic interference in the learning of English verb forms in eight major categories. The findings, explanations and illustration-based recommendations provided in this volume will give trainee teachers, instructors and researchers deeper insights into how strategies can be aptly employed to enhance learners’ performance in using English verb forms and related grammatical categories, which constitute a key dimension in the learning and teaching of English as a second language.

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