INTRODUCTION
The term of culture is commonly used by media, either electronic media or printed media and even in schools. This common word carries a huge and important meaning to the nation.
Culture is a complex, abstract, and pervasive matrix of social elements that functions as an all-encompassing form or pattern for living by laying out a predictable world in which an individual is firmly oriented. Culture enables us to make sense of our surroundings, aiding the transition from the womb to this new life. From the instant of birth, a child is formally and informally taught how to behave, regardless of their culture quickly learn how to behave in a manner that is acceptable to adults. Within each culture, therefore, there is no need to expend energy deciding what an event means or how to respond to it.
The script of our role-play is mainly about theme culture with four different subtopics which are traditional attire, earthen wares, luxurious textiles and traditional dances. Basically, we covered the culture of a few races such as Malay, Chinese, India and Iban. This is because we have to obey the limitation time of presentation that has been fixed.
Since our country which is Malaysia consist of multiracial citizens, our country became rich with the culture by the respective races. The three main races in the country are Malay, Chinese and Indians. Although there are many differences between the races in the country, the integration among the citizen still can be maintained. This is because the understanding towards other people’s opinion, culture, perception and also religion made Malaysia as a harmony country.
There are too many cultures in Malaysia. These include clothes, textiles, literature and many more. However, in this coursework, we only include the culture of three main races in Malaysia which are Malay, India and Chinese. This is because the coursework has set the limitation for us.
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We as the new generation of Malaysians should be proud and appreciate our culture so that the uniqueness of the culture can be passed to the next generations. Other than that, our identity asCancel the Malaysians canAnd be Print preserved. Download After some discussion, we decided to choose title “Where Culture Embraces Heritage” as the title for our Role-Play 1 Malaysia. This is because, we realize that our unique culture is really common and related with heritage. Hence, this coursework will be covering the culture of a few races in Malaysia since we have been given the limitation to write the script of the role -play.
The spirit of 1Malaysia also has been instilled in ourselves since we were studying this topic for a few weeks and we tend to be curious about other people’s culture.
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACADEMIC (ROLE-PLAY)
Scene: A situation where a grandmother took aft erAnd herPrint female grandchild at home. Cancel Download The grandchild is telling her grandmother about Malaysian culture that she learnt at school on that morning. Then the grandmother tells further with her beloved grandchild about the Malaysian culture.
Grandmother is sitting on a chair when the grandchild suddenly comes and tells her about her lessons at school that day.
Grandchild
: Grandma, guess what I learnt at school today! Teacher taught us about Malaysian culture!
Grandmother
: Oh really? What did she teach you? Come and tell me dear!
Grandchild
: Today, my teacher taught my group Malay cultural dance which is zapin. Do you know how to dance zapin? I have a CD which contains the way to dance zapin. It is an active dance but interesting too.
Grandmother
: What about other races’ dances?
Grandchild
: Oh, teacher taught the other group about the Chinese and Indian dances. So, we all can perform during the Graduation Day that will held in school soon. Did you know that the Chinese cultural dance is Lion Dance, while Indian cultural dance is called as Bharata Natyam? This CD contains other dances too. Let’s see the content!
Grandmother
: Okay dear!
The CD is played and both of them enjoy the videos.
Grandchild
: Grandma, what is culture? My teachers used to say that word very often, but I still do not understand its meaning.
Grandmother
: Dear, culture can be defined as the element that composed of everything symbolic that we learn. Culture is a framework of behavioural patterns, values, assumptions and experiences
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shared by a social group. Culture is a mostly automatically or unconsciously applied orientation system of collective values, which makes its group members’ comprehensible and Cancel Download Andbehaviour Print to a certain degree predictable for each other. Culture refers to the pattern of human activity and the symbols, which give significance to this activity. Culture is represented through the art, literature, costumes, customs and traditions of a community. Different cultures exist in different parts of the world. The natural environment greatly affects the lifestyle of the people of that region, thus shaping their culture. The diversity in the cultures around the world is also a result of the mindsets of people inhabiting different regions of the world. Grandchild
: Oh, I see. My teacher told me that we should learn our culture because culture is a bond that ties the people of a region or community together. It is that one common bond, which brings the people of a community together. The customs and traditions that the people of a community follow, the festivals they celebrate, the kind of clothing they wear, the food they eat, and most importantly, the cultural values they adhere to, bind them together.
Grandmother
: The cultural values of a community give it an identity of its own. A community gains a character and a personality of its own, because of the culture of its people. Culture is shared by the members of a community. It is learned and passed from the older generations to the newer ones. For an effective transfer of culture from one generation to another, it has to be translated into symbols. Language, art and religion serve as the symbolic means of transfer of cultural values between generations. Culture is seen as a system of social control, wherein people shape their standards and behaviour. The cultural values form the founding principles of one’s life. They influence one’s principles and philosophies of life. They influence one’s way of living and thus impact social life.
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: So, it means that the culture lies in the fact that it is a link between people and their value systems.
Grandmother
: Absolutely right, my dear. The Cancel Download Andidentity Print of culture in Malaysia also can be seen by the luxurious textiles such as batik, songket and pua kumbo. As you can see my dear, this is batik. Usually, the woman wears at home; as you can see that I am wearing batik now.
Grandchild
: Yes, this is songket right? I know that songket is famous at Terengganu, Kelantan and Pahang and the production of songket is very complicated. A long time ago, songket symbolizes the rank or position in community. Usually, the motives of songket are plants.
Grandmother
: Yes. It is right. Another textile is pua kumbo. The designs of pua kumbos are almost the same. As you can see, the motives used are animals, plants or human spirit. The combination of red and black is the tradition for this textile. This textile came from Sarawak usually wears by the Ibanese. For them, this textile is used for ritual ceremony and Gawai Fest.
The grandmother and her grandchild then continue talking about the culture. Grandchild
:What about the traditional attire?
Grandmother
:Now, see what are you wearing at this moment. You are wearing kebaya. It is one of the traditional attire. This kebaya is famous among the woman one time ago. Usually, the women from Baba and Nyonya wear this clothes and it became one of their identity, including the bead shoes.
Grandchild
: Oh, that’s why we can see many kebaya are sold at Malacca.
Grandmother
:Absolutely my dear.
Grandchild
: I think, you are wearing traditional attire too grandma, you are wearing baju kurung right? What I know, long time ago, people wore baju kurung with kain sarung. Is it?
Grandmother
: Yes, you are so smart sweetheart. Another traditional attire for Malay is baju Melayu. People wear this clothes during Hari Raya
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celebration, and also during formal and special occasions such as wedding. Grandchild
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The cultures among Cancel the Malaysian citizens are known as unique and Download And Print traditional. These two characteristics are important so that the identity of Malaysians can be protected. The UNESCO has qualified two states in Malaysia which is Malacca and Pulau Pinang as historical city and the world heritage state. This qualification made the country proud.
We as the young generation should protect the culture. Who else can take the responsibilities to protect it if the youngsters do not appreciate our own culture? Hence, the government should promote the community to appreciate and also protect the culture and heritage. Campaigns should be organized to instill the spirit of appreciating the culture. Teachers in school also should teach and include the lesson of culture and its importance to the students so that the young generation have the information about our valuable culture and heritage.
The most important thing about culture is; culture is not innate; it is learned. From infancy on, members of a culture learn their patterns of behaviour and ways of thinking until they have become internalized. The power and influence of these behaviours and perceptions can be seen in the ways in which we acquire culture. Our culture learning proceeds through interaction, observation, and imitation. A little boy in North America whose father tells him to shake hands when he is introduced to a friend of the family is learning culture. The Arab baby who is read the holy AlQuran when he or she is one day old is learning culture. The Hindu child who lives in a home where the women eat after the men is learning culture.
The assumption is that people who share a common culture can usually be counted on to behave correctly and predictably. Hence, culture reduces the chances of surprise by shielding people from the unknown. Try to imagine a single day in your life without access to the guidelines your culture provides. Without the rules that govern your actions, you would soon feel helpless. From how to greet strangers to how to spend our time, culture provides us with structure. Student’s Name
: Nurul Aimi Fatiha Binti Azman
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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, Alhamdulillah, to Allah, we completed this Cancel DownloadPraise And Print coursework at the right moment.
After completing this coursework, I found that it is i mportant for us to know the techniques to collect the information in order to come up with a good and effective coursework.. Other than that, we also learn new things in order to complete this coursework such as writing the script for a role-play. We managed to study how to produce a script that is pack with information so that the audience can learn new things once they watch our role-play presentation.
In this coursework also we managed to apply reading, listening, speaking and also writing skills. Reading skills were applied in order to understand, to get the gist and the main ideas of the text or article regarding our theme, which is culture. After some discussions, we decide to choose “Where Culture Embraces Heritage” as our title of presentation. This is because, we realise the importance of protecting and apply our own unique culture in our daily life.
This coursework also makes me realise that we, as future teachers should aware and knowledgeable about the culture among the Malaysians. This is because, to be a teacher, one must be knowledgeable. There are many ways in order to gain information such as from printed media like newspapers and magazines or even electronic media Other than that, this coursework bring the group members to be responsible, tolerate and understanding members. We also need to co-operate all the times until this coursework completed. We planned our coursework systematically so that the product will be better. We used the first week to find as many information as we can. Then, we plan and construct the plot of the role-play. After discussing with the lecturer about the suitability of setting and the plot of the role-play, we started preparing the script of role-play and setting the props.
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Next, I found that we should respect other people’s opinions and thought. This element is very important in our daily life in order to gain integration among the community.
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Another lesson that I gained after completing this coursework is the format of writing a dialogue of the role-play. The format is different with the formal writing. Plus, doing this coursework can improve and enhance my vocabulary, as I tend to learn new words.
For the conclusion, I am satisfied with our coursework as we performed great in order to gain best result for our studies. This short coursework gave me new and useful information and knowledge as well as wonderful memories during conducting the interview with the respondents. Thank you.
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APPENDICES
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