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Congruence between language proficiency and communicative abilities

Reports in mass media and narratives of people in authority as well as the lay person in the street attribute unemployment of graduates to their poor communicative abilities and, in the same breath, poor proficiency in English. This raises questions for applied linguistics to address through empiric...

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Main Authors: Ernisa, Marzuki, Ting, Su Hie, Collin, Jerome, Chuah, Kee-Man, Jecky, Misieng
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2013
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P Philology. Linguistics
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spelling my.unimas.ir.85982022-05-12T07:56:13Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/8598/ Congruence between language proficiency and communicative abilities Ernisa, Marzuki Ting, Su Hie Collin, Jerome Chuah, Kee-Man Jecky, Misieng P Philology. Linguistics Reports in mass media and narratives of people in authority as well as the lay person in the street attribute unemployment of graduates to their poor communicative abilities and, in the same breath, poor proficiency in English. This raises questions for applied linguistics to address through empirical studies. This paper reports students’ views of the congruence between language proficiency and communicative abilities. The specific aspects examined are whether students conceptualise these two constructs as the same, overlapping or different; and whether students think their language proficiency and communicative ability affect their chances of employability. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with university students with different English proficiency levels. The preliminary results indicate that students see both English proficiency and communicative ability as important factors affecting their employability but they can tease apart the two constructs. The students view communicative ability as going beyond language proficiency to encompass ability to take account of other viewpoints and clarity in thought patterns during communication. The findings suggest that strategies to improve undergraduate communicative abilities cannot target English proficiency alone. Elsevier Ltd. 2013 Article NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/8598/1/Ernisa.pdf Ernisa, Marzuki and Ting, Su Hie and Collin, Jerome and Chuah, Kee-Man and Jecky, Misieng (2013) Congruence between language proficiency and communicative abilities. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 97. pp. 448-453. ISSN 1877-0428 http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259214237_Congruence_between_Language_Proficiency_and_Communicative_Abilities doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.10.258
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topic P Philology. Linguistics
spellingShingle P Philology. Linguistics
Ernisa, Marzuki
Ting, Su Hie
Collin, Jerome
Chuah, Kee-Man
Jecky, Misieng
Congruence between language proficiency and communicative abilities
description Reports in mass media and narratives of people in authority as well as the lay person in the street attribute unemployment of graduates to their poor communicative abilities and, in the same breath, poor proficiency in English. This raises questions for applied linguistics to address through empirical studies. This paper reports students’ views of the congruence between language proficiency and communicative abilities. The specific aspects examined are whether students conceptualise these two constructs as the same, overlapping or different; and whether students think their language proficiency and communicative ability affect their chances of employability. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with university students with different English proficiency levels. The preliminary results indicate that students see both English proficiency and communicative ability as important factors affecting their employability but they can tease apart the two constructs. The students view communicative ability as going beyond language proficiency to encompass ability to take account of other viewpoints and clarity in thought patterns during communication. The findings suggest that strategies to improve undergraduate communicative abilities cannot target English proficiency alone.
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author Ernisa, Marzuki
Ting, Su Hie
Collin, Jerome
Chuah, Kee-Man
Jecky, Misieng
author_facet Ernisa, Marzuki
Ting, Su Hie
Collin, Jerome
Chuah, Kee-Man
Jecky, Misieng
author_sort Ernisa, Marzuki
title Congruence between language proficiency and communicative abilities
title_short Congruence between language proficiency and communicative abilities
title_full Congruence between language proficiency and communicative abilities
title_fullStr Congruence between language proficiency and communicative abilities
title_full_unstemmed Congruence between language proficiency and communicative abilities
title_sort congruence between language proficiency and communicative abilities
publisher Elsevier Ltd.
publishDate 2013
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/8598/1/Ernisa.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/8598/
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259214237_Congruence_between_Language_Proficiency_and_Communicative_Abilities
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