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Instilling soft skills in engineering learners through language learning

Organized by Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship UniMAP in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, 5th - 6th December 2008 at Putra Palace Hotel, Perlis.

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Main Author: Faizah, Mohamad Nor
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis 2009
Subjects:
Soft skills
Engineering > Study and teaching
Engineers
Language skills
Engineering > Study and teaching > Malaysia
Communication skills
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/5685
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spelling my.unimap-56852009-05-09T07:33:24Z Instilling soft skills in engineering learners through language learning Faizah, Mohamad Nor Soft skills Engineering -- Study and teaching Engineers Language skills Engineering -- Study and teaching -- Malaysia Communication skills Organized by Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship UniMAP in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, 5th - 6th December 2008 at Putra Palace Hotel, Perlis. Does language learning have a role in developing engineering learners to become effective would-be engineers? Besides acquiring language skills which they can put to use in their daily interactions with members of the society and in their professional communicative acts with their colleagues at work in the future, a language learner at the tertiary level now gets to equip himself with other traits that make him a whole person. Since the introduction of the generic skills in all university courses, university courses have been somewhat revamped to incorporate several worthy attributes that mould undergraduates into more balanced individuals. This study looks at a language learning course with the purpose of determining if soft skills were successfully instilled in learners. Questionnaires were distributed to the research subjects comprising third-year engineering learners at a higher learning institution who were taking their third-level language course. This paper reports the role of this language course in equipping engineering learners with soft skills in an effort to mould them to become more effective engineers upon entry into their profession. 2009-05-09T07:33:24Z 2009-05-09T07:33:24Z 2008-12-05 Working Paper p.167-177 http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5685 en International Conference on the Roles of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Eengineering 2008 (ICOHSE08) Universiti Malaysia Perlis
institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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country Malaysia
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language English
topic Soft skills
Engineering -- Study and teaching
Engineers
Language skills
Engineering -- Study and teaching -- Malaysia
Communication skills
spellingShingle Soft skills
Engineering -- Study and teaching
Engineers
Language skills
Engineering -- Study and teaching -- Malaysia
Communication skills
Faizah, Mohamad Nor
Instilling soft skills in engineering learners through language learning
description Organized by Centre for Communication Skills and Entrepreneurship UniMAP in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, 5th - 6th December 2008 at Putra Palace Hotel, Perlis.
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author Faizah, Mohamad Nor
author_facet Faizah, Mohamad Nor
author_sort Faizah, Mohamad Nor
title Instilling soft skills in engineering learners through language learning
title_short Instilling soft skills in engineering learners through language learning
title_full Instilling soft skills in engineering learners through language learning
title_fullStr Instilling soft skills in engineering learners through language learning
title_full_unstemmed Instilling soft skills in engineering learners through language learning
title_sort instilling soft skills in engineering learners through language learning
publisher Universiti Malaysia Perlis
publishDate 2009
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/5685
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