Conceptualizing English Workplace Communication Needs of Professional Engineers: The Challenges for English Language Tertiary EducatorS

Mastery of English oral communication skills is an advantage to employees in their workplaces. In the engineering industry, professional engineers possessing English oral communication skills are at an advantage; either for executing daily tasks or for promotion and career advancement. This paper ai...

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Main Authors:	Abdullah Adnan, Mohamed, Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan, Hafizoah, Kassim, Mohammad Musab, Azmat Ali
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Language:	English English
Published:	Universiti Selangor 2014
Subjects:	Q Science (General)
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spelling	ump-64372018-06-12T00:55:10Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6437/ Conceptualizing English Workplace Communication Needs of Professional Engineers: The Challenges for English Language Tertiary EducatorS Abdullah Adnan, Mohamed Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan Hafizoah, Kassim Mohammad Musab, Azmat Ali Q Science (General) Mastery of English oral communication skills is an advantage to employees in their workplaces. In the engineering industry, professional engineers possessing English oral communication skills are at an advantage; either for executing daily tasks or for promotion and career advancement. This paper aims to conceptualize and highlight the communicative events whereby engineers need to have a set of appropriate English communication skills in order to function well in their workplaces. At the same time, this poses great challenges for English language educators in the Malaysian Higher institutions whereby they must train and equip engineering undergraduates with adequate English communication skills in order for them to function effectively in their future engineering workplaces and to tackle the issue of graduate unemployment as a result of lack of English communication skills. Universiti Selangor 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6437/1/Conceptualizing_English_Workplace_Communication_Needs_Of_Professional_Engineers-_The_Challenges_for_English_Language_Tertiary_Educators.pdf application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6437/4/pbmsk-2014-adnan-Conceptualizing%20English%20Workplace.pdf Abdullah Adnan, Mohamed and Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan and Hafizoah, Kassim and Mohammad Musab, Azmat Ali (2014) Conceptualizing English Workplace Communication Needs of Professional Engineers: The Challenges for English Language Tertiary EducatorS. International Journal of Contemporary Business Management, 1 (1). pp. 1-9. http://ojs.journals.unisel.edu.my/index.php/ijcbm/article/view/47
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description	Mastery of English oral communication skills is an advantage to employees in their workplaces. In the engineering industry, professional engineers possessing English oral communication skills are at an advantage; either for executing daily tasks or for promotion and career advancement. This paper aims to conceptualize and highlight the communicative events whereby engineers need to have a set of appropriate English communication skills in order to function well in their workplaces. At the same time, this poses great challenges for English language educators in the Malaysian Higher institutions whereby they must train and equip engineering undergraduates with adequate English communication skills in order for them to function effectively in their future engineering workplaces and to tackle the issue of graduate unemployment as a result of lack of English communication skills.
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author	Abdullah Adnan, Mohamed Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan Hafizoah, Kassim Mohammad Musab, Azmat Ali
author_facet	Abdullah Adnan, Mohamed Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan Hafizoah, Kassim Mohammad Musab, Azmat Ali
author_sort	Abdullah Adnan, Mohamed
title	Conceptualizing English Workplace Communication Needs of Professional Engineers: The Challenges for English Language Tertiary EducatorS
title_short	Conceptualizing English Workplace Communication Needs of Professional Engineers: The Challenges for English Language Tertiary EducatorS
title_full	Conceptualizing English Workplace Communication Needs of Professional Engineers: The Challenges for English Language Tertiary EducatorS
title_fullStr	Conceptualizing English Workplace Communication Needs of Professional Engineers: The Challenges for English Language Tertiary EducatorS
title_full_unstemmed	Conceptualizing English Workplace Communication Needs of Professional Engineers: The Challenges for English Language Tertiary EducatorS
title_sort	conceptualizing english workplace communication needs of professional engineers: the challenges for english language tertiary educators
publisher	Universiti Selangor
publishDate	2014
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Conceptualizing English Workplace Communication Needs of Professional Engineers: The Challenges for English Language Tertiary EducatorS

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