The faculty’s perceptions on the importance of English oral proficiency and communication problems faced by ESL medical students.

Abdul Malik, Faridah and Othman, Khairiah (2018) The faculty’s perceptions on the importance of English oral proficiency and communication problems faced by ESL medical students. In: Malaysian Association of Applied Linguistics International Conference 2018 (MAALIC 2018), 3rd-4th December 2018, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

As part of a professional healthcare team, doctors value communication as a means to unite the team around the common goal of treating patients. As the lingua franca of 21st century Medicine, the mastery of English is an essential component of communication. English is required for communication between peers and colleagues, to present symptoms and come up with differential diagnoses, to plan a course of medical intervention, to refer cases and patients to specialist centres and myriad other uses all requiring extensive use and mastery of English especially in terms of oral skills. Therefore, it is essential that we identify any weaknesses in our medical graduates at an early stage and rectify those weaknesses so as to produce competent and communicative medical graduates in the future. This paper reports on the findings of a survey on the medical lecturers’ perceptions on the importance of English oral skills for success in medical study and future career of their ESL medical students as well as the problems that their students might face pertaining to their English oral ability. The findings of the study can provide insights into developing English language programmes that better meet the needs of these students.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Slide Presentation)
Additional Information:	1378/78855
Uncontrolled Keywords:	English oral proficiency, communications problem, ESL, medial students
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PE English
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Centre for Languages and Pre-University Academic Development (CELPAD) > English Language Division Centre for Languages and Pre-University Academic Development (CELPAD)
Depositing User:	Dr Faridah Abdul Malik
Date Deposited:	21 Feb 2020 10:41
Last Modified:	21 Feb 2020 10:41
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/78855

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