Unboxing Vygotsky’s “Thought and Language”

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My purchase of the translated version of “Thought and Language” originally in Russian by Lev Vygotsky arrived today. Considered as one of the essential readings in psychology, I simply wanted a copy of my own after years of having to read it on a soft-copy (free accessed PDF).

Students of educational psychology at the post-graduate levels are highly recommended to read this book. This is especially to the research students who are keen to use the concept of constructivism for their theoretical and conceptual frameworks.

Unboxing APA’s “Essentials of Qualitative Methods Series” (Part 2)

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After reading the two book I purchased from the APA’s “Essentials of Qualitative Methods Series”, I decided to add two more to my collections: “Thematic Analysis” by Terry and Hayfield, and “Autoethnography” by Poulos. Alhamdulillah they safely arrived today.

Accompanying webinars are also available on YouTube: https://go.apa.org/qualitative-methods/

Unboxing APA’s “Essentials of Qualitative Methods Series” (Part 1)

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My purchase of “Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis” by Smith and Nizza, and “Narrative Analysis” by Josselson and Hammack safely arrived yesterday.

These two are parts of the Essentials of Qualitative Methods Series published by the American Psychological Association. I’ve been waiting for the latest books on qualitative methodology and these compact books are perfect for my references.

On top of that each publication came with a webinar that can be watched again on YouTube: https://go.apa.org/qualitative-methods/

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Unboxing the latest version of “Interpretative Phenomenology Analysis”

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My copy of the second edition of Interpretative Phenomenology Analysis by Smith, Flowers and Larkin arrived today.

I purchased the copy in order to enhance my understanding of doing this particular analysis for my two concurrent research projects at the moment: (1) “Experiences of ambulance drivers working in a congested city”, a collaboration with Dr. Marat Zagidullin from the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, Reading University, Malaysia, and (2) “Examining Epistemic Cognition through Personal Reflexivity among Student Teachers of Malaysian Public Universities”, a recently awarded matching grant with UiTM.

Invited Speaker for UNIMAS’ CALM Webinar #7: “The Psychological Impact of Smartphone on Students during Online Learning”

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It was indeed a pleasure to deliver a talk entitled “The Psychological Impact of Smartphone on Students during Online Learning”.

The talk was basically based on our current UTM Encouragement Research project (UTM ER) “A Framework of Mediating Effect of Smartphone Usage on the Relationship between Life Stress and Emotional Regulation Strategies among Problematic Smartphone Users among University Students” lead by Dr. Hadijah.

Thank you UNIMAS for having me and Dr. Hadijah for the session.

For more videos on CALM webinars, visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-z7l42FHl2hi7VqwoJrCVw

PhD Proposal Defense Session 2021/2022-1 (Examiner)

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Many congratulations to Steven Anthony Khan and his supervisor AP Dr. Azlina for successfully negotiated his proposed research entitled “Challenges on Learning English as a Foreign Language from Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor Perspectives among Saudi Arabia Preparatory Year Program Students”.  I teamed up with Prof. Yeo as the examiners during the session, chaired by AP Dr. Zainudin and assisted by Dr. Lee.

Reading “The Discomfort of Evening”

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I finally finished reading this book written by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, originally in Dutch (De avond is ongemak) and winner of the 2020 International Booker Prize. What can I say except it is indeed a wonderfully dark, plot-twisted piece of work.

Recommended for those who are into this genre.

*Spoiler alert: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/books/review-discomfort-of-evening-marieke-lucas-rijneveld.html

Best Presentation at IEEE TALE 2021- Congratulations Shanthini!

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I would like to extend a huge congratulation to my PhD student, Shanthini for winning the Best Presentation Award at IEEE TALE 2021. Her presentation was based on the paper entitled “Examining the Brain Functional Connectivity Pattern of Children with Dyslexia during Rapid Naming Tasks: A Preliminary Study”. You made our research team proud. Well done, Shanthini!