Investigating news framing: a comparative study of media coverage on contemporary education issues in Malaysia
This study examines how the Malay and Chinese language newspapers in Malaysia portray the issue of Teaching and Learning Science and Mathematics in English. Comparison was made between the two different language newspapers particularly in terms of framing by analyzing their coverage on two major...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysian
2012
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5339/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5339/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5339/1/V28_1_17-31.pdf |
| Summary: | This study examines how the Malay and Chinese language
newspapers in Malaysia portray the issue of Teaching and
Learning Science and Mathematics in English. Comparison was
made between the two different language newspapers particularly
in terms of framing by analyzing their coverage on two major
incidents related to the issue – rally against the policy of Teaching
and Learning Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI),
and the announcement of the Upholding the Malay Language,
Strengthening Command of English policy (MBMMBI). This
study uses the five generic frames developed by Semetko &
Valkenburg (2000) as the basis of comparison. The five frames
are responsibility, conflict, moral, economic consequences and
human interest frame. The results suggest a congruency in the two
different language newspapers reporting, which mainly emphasize
the ‘conflict’ nature of the issue. However, a major difference in
frame choice observed between the Malay and Chinese language
newspapers in their reports of MBMMBI. While the prior significantly reduced the intensity of conflict frame in its reports
on MBMMBI as compared to PPSMI, the latter maintain the same
level of intensity for both the events. |
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