Resolving Conflict: Enhancing Engineering Students’ English Fluency through Workplace Situation

Hafizoah, Kassim; Raha, Mohd Radzuan Noor

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“…Numerous reports highlight the significance of oral and written English communication for success in the workplace. In particular, Batley (1998), Myles (2009), Kassim & Radzuan (2008), Chen (2006) and Freeman (2003) draw attention to oral communication; and Artemeva (1998) and Andrews (2003), written communication.…”

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A Sociolinguistic Approach to Oral and Written Communication for Engineering Students

Kaewpet¹,

Sukamolson²

2011

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Engineering students are under pressure to achieve better English abilities required for international communication in the profession. This paper explores reports concerning English education for engineering and focuses on demands for oral and written communication, emphasizing oral presentations, professional conversations and report writing. A sociolinguistic picture of communicative events is examined for a general idea of English instruction. The examination indicates that incorporation of authentic communicative events into English courses has become a necessity to help students' transition from the classroom to the workplace. Moreover, the subject contents of communication should be adequately discipline-specific to enhance the value of training. The target level of comprehensibility of communication should be close to that of native speakers to succeed in real communication. Further research is recommended as demands vary from context to context.

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“…However, they often struggle in English. Many learners are anxious about making grammatical mistakes (Kassim & Radzuan, 2008). Chen (2006) studied the communication needs of Chinese technical personnel in mechanics, computer science and electrical engineering.…”

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A Sociolinguistic Approach to Oral and Written Communication for Engineering Students

Kaewpet¹,

Sukamolson²

2011

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“…Myles (2009), in his study claims that engineering students face some challenges with English language when they participate in meeting and work in projects and have difficulty to deliver their knowledge in professional interactions with their colleagues. Usually, second language learners are able to communicate and interact easily but in formal situations they are anxious to speak in English language and they fear to make mistake grammatically in their communications (Kassim & Radzuan, 2008). Chen (2006), considered learning English language as a need for Chinese technical personnel in mechanics, computer science and electrical engineering.…”

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Success Factors For Technology Aided Peer Assessment To Improve Oral Presentation Skill

Mirzaei¹,

Abdullah²,

Sattar³

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The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Limited attention has been given to (a) Chinese students' use of communication strategies at the graduate level in an English-speaking country; (b) the relationship between strategy use and speaking performance; and (c) similarities or differences between communication strategy use by learners in different disciplines, such as Electrical Engineering (EE) and Education (ED), which are among the most popular disciplines pursued by Chinese graduate students. For the former, speaking has been identified as a key area of challenge (e.g., Chen, 2006;Kassim & Radzuan, 2008;Myles, 2009), whereas for the latter, the demand for an advanced command of English is usually prequisite for admissions. We therefore designed this study to contribute to the important effort of exploring how Chinese EAL graduate students majoring in EE and ED in a North American university use communication strategies and how these relate to speaking performance.…”

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An exploration of strategies used by Chinese graduate students in electrical engineering and education: integrating questionnaire, task performance, and post-task recall data

Zhou

Huang

2018

Asian. J. Second. Foreign. Lang. Educ.

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This study was designed to examine the reported and observed communication strategies used by Chinese English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) graduate students in electrical engineering and education in performing informal debate tasks. The strategies were elicited through strategy inventories, post-task strategy recalls, and task performances. The results revealed eight categories of communication strategies, with fluency-oriented strategies used most frequently and translation least frequently. Differences in using communication strategies were also found between advanced and high-intermediate learners, while the use of one individual strategy-clarifying stance-also notably differed between the two disciplines. Overall, results from nonparametric tests revealed significant positive relationships between certain categories of communication strategy use and learners' speaking performance. The findings and their implications are discussed both to inform practice and to encourage further research about the communication strategies used by EAL learners who are graduate students.

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Resolving Conflict: Enhancing Engineering Students’ English Fluency through Workplace Situation

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A Sociolinguistic Approach to Oral and Written Communication for Engineering Students

A Sociolinguistic Approach to Oral and Written Communication for Engineering Students

Success Factors For Technology Aided Peer Assessment To Improve Oral Presentation Skill

An exploration of strategies used by Chinese graduate students in electrical engineering and education: integrating questionnaire, task performance, and post-task recall data

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