The Ups and Downs of Learning and Using English: Aviation Students’ Voices

Mahmood, Aina Suriani; Saad, Noor Saazai Mat; Nur, Nurhayati Mohd

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“…This is because every organisation, including those in the defence industry, needs a workforce that can cope with challenges and achieve organisational goals (Ma'dan et al, 2020). One important skill that is of great benefit to an organisation is the ability to communicate using the English language (Mahmood et al, 2023;Lim & Yunus, 2021;Mustafa et al, 2017). Indeed, the importance of English skills has been highlighted recently due to increase in the number of unemployed graduates in Malaysia, which has been linked to their having a poor command of English (Shin & Yunus, 2021).…”

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Proficiency Preparedness in Defence Workforce: A Survey of Cadet Officers’ English Language Needs

Rahman,

Yunus,

Nasri

et al. 2023

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Identifying learners' perceived needs can assist ESL practitioners in designing instructional materials more effectively, addressing gaps in language learning. This study aims to investigate the perceived English language skill requirements of cadet officers for their future workplaces and to assess the perceived importance of English in job performance, promotion prospects, and personal life. To achieve this, a questionnaire was developed and distributed to 104 cadet officers from a defence university. Then the quantitative data were analysed descriptively, using SPSS Version 26. The findings indicate that cadets perceive all four English language skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—as being essential for their future workplaces. However, when these skills are ranked in terms of priority, reading skills take precedence, followed by speaking and writing skills, which are seen as being equally important. Listening skills are perceived to be less important for cadets’ future workplaces. Additionally, cadets consider English language skills to be crucial for job performance and personal life but less important for promotion. These findings offer significant implications for the improvement of future English syllabus designs, with the goal of successfully teaching all English language skills.

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Proficiency Preparedness in Defence Workforce: A Survey of Cadet Officers’ English Language Needs

Rahman,

Yunus,

Nasri

et al. 2023

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Gender Differences in Politeness Strategies in Negotiations in Sharktank America and Sharktank Vietnam: A Contrastive Analysis

Hoang¹

2023

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Gender and language have long been an interesting field in sociolinguistics and pragmatics. In the current study, politeness - one of the core issues of modern pragmatics, is adapted to hopefully shed great light on the issue in Vietnamese and American contexts to explore the gender differences in negotiations. Employing descriptive, qualitative, and quantitative methods, the data recorded from 10 conversations in Shark Tank Vietnam Season 3 TV program and 1tenconversations in Shark Tank America were transcribed and analyzed to reveal the different strategies based on Brown and Levinson's theory (1987) used by gender group of Sharks (investors). The gender linguistic differences under the contrastive analysis theory feature the prominent politeness strategies used by investors in American and Vietnamese negotiations. Those are very significant to support the evaluation of language and gender in the current society and in a cross-culture context.

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Reaching Children Across the Globe: The Effect of English Children’s Books on Tanzanian Orphan Literacy

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SAYYADI

2023

International Online Journal of Primary Education

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We found that there are disproportionately intractable challenges such as poverty and inequality in an area of Tanzania, Eastern Africa. There was a need to identify and develop the factors critical for their success. Data were collected in rural Iringa, Tanzania on a case study basis, using a semi-structured interview and communication with leaders in this area of Africa, and we analyzed data with a coded transcript. We identified ten factors that are critical for the success of the orphanage literacy. These findings advance understanding of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and have important practical applications for such enterprises. When the United Nations literacy decade (UNLD, 2003–2012) reached a mid-point, we decided to add to the global awareness of literacy. With initiatives and policy shifts providing a stronger basis for action on literacy, we reached out to Africa. Our concern is that the rise in the global adult literacy rate (15+) from 76 to 83.6 percent over the last two previous decades shows steady progress, with the rates in developing countries showing an even sharper rise from 68 to 79 percent (Richmond, Robinson, & Sachs-Israel, 2008). Thus, we focused on students from grades four to twelve to foster their literary progress as well. This study included 58 students who were also orphans in Kihesa-Iringa, Tanzania. By creating a Coalition of Children’s Book Authors, we established a common ground for global literacy in the form of an NGO. However, the complication in literacy levels exists due to the digital-divide challenges coupled with the expense and delay of material delivered to Africa from the United States. Thankfully, our concern has succeeded to have influence even through the digital divide posed several objectives. Our course of action included a comprehensive plan to reach the 58 orphans, train their leaders, and create interactive learning modules. Thus, our contribution to the literature has reacted to the needs of an African community that could use help in not only literacy but also literacy-leadership communication and knowledge-management.

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The Ups and Downs of Learning and Using English: Aviation Students’ Voices

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Proficiency Preparedness in Defence Workforce: A Survey of Cadet Officers’ English Language Needs

Proficiency Preparedness in Defence Workforce: A Survey of Cadet Officers’ English Language Needs

Gender Differences in Politeness Strategies in Negotiations in Sharktank America and Sharktank Vietnam: A Contrastive Analysis

Reaching Children Across the Globe: The Effect of English Children’s Books on Tanzanian Orphan Literacy

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