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Zahariah Bt Pilus

Academic Qualification

  • Ph.D in Linguistics - Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin
  • Master in English Language Teaching - Masters Degree, University of Warwick
  • Bachelor in Linguistics - Bachelor Degree, Monash University, Melbourne
  • Postgraduate Cert. in Education - Certificate, Maktab Perguruan Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur
  • Certificate in Australian H.S.C - Certificate, Highett High School, Melbourne

Zahariah Bt Pilus (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)

Associate Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus

ABDULHAMID ABUSULAYMAN KULLIYYAH OF ISLAMIC REVEALED KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN SCIENCES


zahariahp@iium.edu.my
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Area of Specialisation


  • Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Linguistics and Literature ~ Applied Linguistics


Teaching Responsibilities


FINAL YEAR PROJECT I 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022
FINAL YEAR PROJECT II 2023/2024 2022/2023
KNOWLEDGE OF MEANING 2023/2024
MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX 2021/2022
PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY 2022/2023 2021/2022
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 2023/2024
RESEARCH PAPER 1 2023/2024
SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022
SOCIOLINGUISTICS 2022/2023


Supervision


Intonational Meaning Among Malay Learners Of English: A Discourse Intonation Approach .
Ph.D Completed 2023 Main Supervisor
A Constrastive Analysis Of Lexical Richness In The Rhetoric Of English As A Native Language (Enl) And English As A Second Language (Esl) Reserach Abstracts.
Ph.D Completed 2023 Main Supervisor
The Effects Of Explicit Connected Speech Instruction On Libyan Efl Learners' Perception And Listening Comprehension Of Connected Speech.
Ph.D Completed 2023 Main Supervisor
A Constrastive Analysis Of Lexical Richness In The Rhetoric Of English As A Native Language (Enl) And English As A Second Language (Esl) Reserach Abstracts.
Ph.D Completed 2023 Main Supervisor
The Effects Of Explicit Connected Speech Instruction On Libyan Efl Learners' Perception And Listening Comprehension Of Connected Speech.
Ph.D Completed 2023 Main Supervisor
A Constrastive Analysis Of Lexical Richness In The Rhetoric Of English As A Native Language (Enl) And English As A Second Language (Esl) Reserach Abstracts.
Ph.D Completed 2023 Co-supervisor
A Discourse-Historical Analysis Of Media Coverage Of Syrian Refugee Resettlement In Canadian Liberal And Conservative Online News Sites.
Ph.D Completed 2020 Main Supervisor
A Discourse-Historical Analysis Of Media Coverage Of Syrian Refugee Resettlement In Canadian Liberal And Conservative Online News Sites.
Ph.D Completed 2020 Main Supervisor
Negotiation Of Meaning In Construction Of Knowledge In Online Forum Discussions.
Ph.D Completed 2019 Member Supervisory Committee
The Effects Of Listening-Reading Intervention On English Pronunciation And Vocabulary Of Form One Students In Maran, Pahang.
Ph.D In Progress Main Supervisor
Improving Islamic School Students’ Accuracy In Segmental Features Of Pronunciations Through Computer- Assisted Language Learning (Call).
Ph.D In Progress Main Supervisor
The Influence Of Social Media On Language Errors: A Study On Whatsapp Text Messages By Iium Students.
Master Completed 2021 Co-supervisor
Cross-Linguistic Influence In Written Present Tense Form Of English: A Case Study Of Bangladeshi Students.
Master Completed 2021 Co-supervisor
Analysing Structural Ambiguties In A Malaysian English Newspaper: An X-Bar Theory Approach.
Master Completed 2021 Co-supervisor
The Development Of English Plural Expressions In Malaysian Autistic Children.
Master Completed 2020 Co-supervisor
Cross-Linguistic Influence: Djiboutian Francophones' Awareness Of English Linguistic Features .
Master Completed 2019 Co-supervisor
A Register Analysis Of Exhibition Texts At Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia.
Master Completed 2018 Main Supervisor
Investigating English Multiple-Meaning Word Recognition Of Thai Efl Students Of Grade 11 Of A Private School In Songkhla, Thailand.
Master Completed 2017 Co-supervisor
Politeness Strategies And Gender Differences In The Speech Act Of Rejection Among The Malays In Malaysia.
Master Completed 2017 Co-supervisor
Non-Native Intonation Patterns In English Tag Questions: A Study Of Malay And Thai Speakers Of English.
Master Completed 2015 Main Supervisor
English Borrowings In Malay Language : An Exploratory Study.
Master Completed 2015 Main Supervisor
Use Of Link Adverbials: A Comparative Analysis Of Academic Articles In The Philippines And American Online Journals .
Master Completed 2015 Main Supervisor
Discrepancies Between Actual And Perceived Pronunciation Laerning Strategies Of Malay Esl Learners.
Master Completed 2012 Main Supervisor
Perception Of Attitudinal Functions Of Intonation In Responding Yes / No Questions: A Study Of Selected Celpad English Teachers.
Master Completed 2011 Main Supervisor
Phonological Assimilation In The English Of Malay Speakers.
Master Completed 2010 Main Supervisor
Translation Techniques Used In Capturing The Essence Of Culturally Embedded Expressions: An Analysis Of The English Version Of The Malay Novel 'Juara'.
Master Completed 2008 Main Supervisor
Students' Performance And Their Perceptions Of Listening Comprehension Tasks: A Case Study Of Year 4 Students At Sk Setapak Indah, Kuala Lumpur.
Master Completed 2006 Main Supervisor
Eap Needs Analysis Of Law Undergraduates At Iium.
Master Completed 2005 Main Supervisor
Word Meaning Retention: An Experimental Study Of Inferring And Memorizing Methods Among Esl Students Of Pattani.
Master Completed 2005 Main Supervisor
The Attitudes Of Iium Students Towards Using Computer-Mediated Communication For Learning English.
Master Completed 2004 Main Supervisor
Compound Neologisms as Used by Young Malaysians on Twitter and Their Classifications.
Compound Neologisms As Used By Young Malaysians On Twitter And Their Classifications.
Master In Progress Main Supervisor
Interactional Markers Used By Native And Non-Native Writers Of English In The Result And Discussion Sections Of Applied Linguistics Research Articles.
Master In Progress Main Supervisor
The Production Of Stop Consonants By Kelantanese Malay Speakers Of English.
Master In Progress Main Supervisor


Research Projects


Completed
2016 - 2020 Tone Units, Stress and Prominence in the Speech of Malay ESL Speakers
2016 - 2023 Profiling the Malaysian English Accent: Evidence from the Vowel Space
2016 - 2020 Tone Choices in the Speech of Malay ESL Learners
2014 - 2019 The Development of English Proficiency by English Majors in an Intensive ESL Environment
2012 - 2014 Spelling and Decoding Skills of Arab ESL Learners
2010 - 2011 Pronunciation Learning Strategies of ESL Learners: A Case Study Sek. Men. Keb. Tanah Merah
2010 - 2015 Pronunciation Learning of Malay as A Second Language Learners
On-Going
2015 - Present Applying the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Islamic Anxiety Reduce Technique (I-ART) to Reduce Communication Apprehension (CA) Experienced by Malaysian Undergraduates in Delivering Oral Presentation
2011 - Present A Protracted Study of the Effect of Reading-Listening on English Language Proficiency Among Students from Rural Schools in Malaysia


Publications


Article

2023 The rhetorical density of authorial emotiveness and voice passiveness in abstract compositions. International Journal of Asian Social Science, 13 (2) pp. 61-77
2022 Effects of explicit connected speech instruction on Libyan EFL learners’ perceptions of listening comprehension problems in speech recognition, parsing and utilisation. IIUM Journal of Educational Studies, 10 (1) pp.
2022 Rhetorical strategies for appeal to logos in research abstracts: An analysis of rhetoric.. Muallim Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 6 (3) pp.
2022 The effects of connected speech instruction on Second or Foreign language learners’ perceptive skills and Connected Speech Production: a systematic review of the literature (2000-2021). International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 21 (9) pp.
2022 The rise tone in the English and Malay intonations of Malay learners of English. Asiatica, () pp.
2021 The representation of Syrian refugees in Canadian online news media: a focus on the Topos of burdening. Canadian Journal of Communication, 46 (4) pp. 875-903
2020 #WelcomeRefugees: a critical discourse analysis of the refugee resettlement initiative in Canadian news. GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies, 20 (4) pp. 30-54
2019 International students' perspectives of Malaysian English teachers' spoken English. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 8 (3) pp. 555-566
2019 International students’ perspectives of Malaysian English teachers’ spoken English. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 8 (3) pp. 554-566
2019 Stretching the boundaries: Malaysian ESL learners' evaluative reactions to inner circle English accents. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 29 (2) pp. 300-321
2019 Stretching the boundaries: Malaysian ESL learners’ evaluative reactions to inner circle English accents. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 29 (2) pp. 300-321
2018 Metadiscourse in the academic writing of local and international students at a university in Malaysia. International Journal of Education and Practice, 6 (4) pp. 227-238
2017 –Ed Allomorphs and linguistic knowledge of Malay speakers of English: a descriptive and correlational study. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7 (2) pp. 445-454
2017 Learning English in a Third Space? Malay Students in an English-Speaking University in Malaysia. Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities, 25 (3) pp. 1167-1180
2016 Validation study of the Malay version of the Myasthenia Gravis Quality of Life (MGQOL)15 and Myasthenia Gravis Activities of Daily Living (MGADL) questionnaires. Neurology Asia, 21 (1) pp. 33-39
2013 Exploring ESL learners' attitudes towards English accents. World Applied Sciences Journal 21 (Special Issue of Studies in Language Teaching and Learning) 2013, 21 () pp. 143-152
2013 Phonological assimilation in the English of native and non-native speakers’ reading and spontaneous speech. Journal of Modern Languages, 23 (1) pp. 57-67
2005 Perception of voicing in English word-final consonants: examining the perceptual assimilation model. Malaysian Journal of ELT Research, Inaugr () pp. 1-12
2000 Voicing contrast in word-final stops: A preliminary study of Malay English. LSO Working Papers in Linguistics, 1 () pp.
Conference or Workshop Item

2023 Code-switching in K-Pops songs. In: Scholarship Advancement Programme 2023,
2022 Investigating the effects of Listening-Reading (LR) intervention on form one ESL learners’ pronunciation of “…-ed” and “…-s” morphemes. In: The 6th International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Culture,
2022 The effects of explicit connected speech instruction on Libyan EFL learners’ perception of connected speech. In: Malaysian Association of Applied Linguistics Asia Pacific Conference 2022,,
2022 The functions of the rise tone in structured short story narrations by Malay ESL learners. In: Malaysian Association of Applied Linguistics Asia Pacific Conference 2022,
2020 The rise tone in short story narration: A case study of Malay ESL learners. In: International Conference on Language and Literature 2020,
2018 Level tones in the speech of Malay ESL learners. In: International Conference on Language, Culture & Society 2018 (ICLCS 2018),
2018 The functions of the level tone in Malay ESL learners’ speech. In: 2nd International Connect Malaysia (Connect’M) Conference 2018,
2018 The representation of Syrian refugees in Canadian online media: a corpus-assisted CDA. In: International Conference on Language, Culture & Society (ICLCS) 2018: Asia and Beyond,
2018 Tone choices in the speech of Malay ESL learners. In: Postgraduate Colloquium Presentation 2018,
2018 Use of interactional markers by Malay and native writers of English in the results and discussion section of English language studies research articles.. In: International Conference on Language, Culture & Society 2018,
2016 Language vitality: Insights from young speakers of the Bidayuh Language. In: DELL Postgraduate Research Symposium 2016,
2016 Native English: ESL learners’ perceptions of female speakers’ accents. In: 2nd International Conference on the Institutional Leadership, Learning and Teaching (ILLT),
2016 The –ed allomorphs of Malay speakers of English and linguistic knowledge types. In: Third International Conference on Language, Literature & Society 2016,
2016 The use of hedges by Malay writers: a study on the discussion section of theses in English language and applied linguistics. In: 10th International Language for Specific Purposes Seminar (LSP 2016),
2016 Use of verbs in museum exhibition texts. In: DELL Postgraduate Research Symposium 2016,
2015 International students’ perceptions of classroom Malaysian English variety. In: DELL Postgraduate Research Symposium 2015,
2015 Listening to the accents of male native English speakers: ESL learners’ perceptions. In: International Conference on Languages (ICL 2015),
2015 The effects of listening-reading programme on the pronunciation of English words by form one students from a secondary school in Pahang. In: DELL Postgraduate Research Symposium 2015,
2014 Attitudes of Malaysian university students towards six English accents. In: TESOL ACTA 2014 Meeting the Challenge International Conference,
2014 Spelling and pronunciation skills of Arab ESL learners . In: 3rd International Language Conference (ILC) 2014,
2013 Politeness in request forms as perceived by Malay second language learners of English. In: International Language for Communication Conference,
2012 Pronunciation learning strategies of Malay ESL learners. In: EWRF Education Conference,
2011 Novice ESL learners' perception of English accents: an exploratory study. In: The 2nd International Language Conference, 2011,
2009 If snakes ‘hiss’ and cows ‘moo’ when they are awake, what sounds do gorillas and chickens make? : creating learners’ awareness of four English vowels. In: 18th MELTA International Conference,
2008 Creating awareness of the orthographic representations of [i] and [ɪ]. In: English and Asia 2008, First international conference on language and linguistics,
2004 The perception of voicing in English word-final consonants: examining the perceptual assimilation model. In: MELTA Conference - Focus on Oracy,
Book

2014 Discourse analysis in Malaysian English Language Teaching. August Publishing Sdn. Bhd., ISBN: 9789833317844
Book Section

2014 A study of teachers' questioning techniques and its implications for teaching literature in English. In: August Publishing Sdn Bhd (665084-U), ISBN: 978-983-3317-84-4, pp. 137-156
2013 Chapter 1: Introduction. In: IIUM Press, ISBN: 978-967-418-287-8, pp. 1-8
2013 Chapter 1: Introduction. In: IIUM Press, ISBN: 978-967-418-287-8, pp. 1-8