TY - BOOK AU - Rafaei Abdul Rahman, AU - Siti Maimon Kamso-Wanrafaei. ED - Victoria University of Wellington. ED - National Postgraduate Research Colloquium TI - Bracing Malaysia for a complicated world: a compilation of research by Malaysian postgraduates in New Zealand SN - 0475123883 U1 - 959.5 23 PY - 2012///] CY - Wellington, N.Z. PB - Wan Rafaei Abdul Rahman, Victoria University Foundation KW - Education KW - Malaysia KW - Congresses N1 - "The papers in this volume were originally presented at the First National Postgraduate Research Colloquium (1NPRC) in Otago, New Zealand in July 2011"--P. v; Includes bibliographical references; Malaysia at an important phase in the nation's history and the future of Malaysia in the context of a complicated world; Hasnudin bin Hamzah --; From research to publication; Wan Rafaei Abdul Rahman --; Self-regulated learning strategies of Malaysian tertiary level learners learning English as a second language; Azizah Binti Mohd Zahidi --; The identification of language needs of learners of Mandarin as a foreign language at tertiary level in Malaysia; Hiang Loon Low --; Second language writing in the ESL classroom; Alice Wong Su Chu, John Everatt and Brigid McNeill --; A proposal to investigate the effectiveness of practical work at the lower secondary school level in Malaysia; Siti Shamsiah binti Sani --; Intercultural factors and their effects in Malaysians Assessment centres; Mohd Hanafiah Ahmad --; Knowledge sharing and preservation of traditional cultural expressions: the Sarawak story; Rashidah Bolhassan, Brian M. Harmer, G.E. Gorman and Jocelyn Cranefield --; Tsunami responsive architecture: the use of multi-grid coupled tsunami model programme to refine coastal architectural design strategies and decision making; Jestin Nordin and Andrew Charleson --; The effect of board independence and ownership on the association between earning response coefficient and default risk; Nor Balkish Zakaria, Tony van Zijl, Wares Karim and Bhagwan Khanna ER -