ESL medical students’ oral proficiency— do they need help?

English proficiency is no longer a choice but a tool for survival for medical students who wish to practise medicine in the global working environment of today. Of the many skills that they are required to master, oral communication skills are of paramount importance. The pressure on medical student...

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Main Authors:	Abdul Malik, Faridah, Othman, Khairiah
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	American Scientific Publishers 2018
Subjects:	PE English
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spelling	iium-665712019-03-15T02:54:49Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/66571/ ESL medical students’ oral proficiency— do they need help? Abdul Malik, Faridah Othman, Khairiah PE English English proficiency is no longer a choice but a tool for survival for medical students who wish to practise medicine in the global working environment of today. Of the many skills that they are required to master, oral communication skills are of paramount importance. The pressure on medical students to interact effectively in oral form is immense in addition to the need to be knowledgeable on the content. Inability to converse well in English has important implications for their learning and could lead to clinically sub-par medical graduates in the future. This study investigates the importance of English oral skills for studies and future career as perceived by the clinical students and to assess the extent of problems that they faced when trying to communicate with their peers, subordinates and superiors especially in the formative clinical years. The data were collected via a structured questionnaire administered to 256 medical students who were in their clinical years. The findings of this study can act as a set of guidelines to be considered when developing programmes to enhance the English oral skills of these medical students. American Scientific Publishers 2018-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66571/1/66571_ESL%20medical%20students%E2%80%99%20oral%20proficiency.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66571/2/66571_ESL%20medical%20students%E2%80%99%20oral%20proficiency_WOS.pdf Abdul Malik, Faridah and Othman, Khairiah (2018) ESL medical students’ oral proficiency— do they need help? Advanced Science Letters, 24 (11). pp. 8138-8141. ISSN 1936-6612 E-ISSN 1936-7317 https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/asl/2018/00000024/00000011/art00068 https://doi.org/10.1166/asl.2018.12510
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description	English proficiency is no longer a choice but a tool for survival for medical students who wish to practise medicine in the global working environment of today. Of the many skills that they are required to master, oral communication skills are of paramount importance. The pressure on medical students to interact effectively in oral form is immense in addition to the need to be knowledgeable on the content. Inability to converse well in English has important implications for their learning and could lead to clinically sub-par medical graduates in the future. This study investigates the importance of English oral skills for studies and future career as perceived by the clinical students and to assess the extent of problems that they faced when trying to communicate with their peers, subordinates and superiors especially in the formative clinical years. The data were collected via a structured questionnaire administered to 256 medical students who were in their clinical years. The findings of this study can act as a set of guidelines to be considered when developing programmes to enhance the English oral skills of these medical students.
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author	Abdul Malik, Faridah Othman, Khairiah
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title	ESL medical students’ oral proficiency— do they need help?
title_short	ESL medical students’ oral proficiency— do they need help?
title_full	ESL medical students’ oral proficiency— do they need help?
title_fullStr	ESL medical students’ oral proficiency— do they need help?
title_full_unstemmed	ESL medical students’ oral proficiency— do they need help?
title_sort	esl medical students’ oral proficiency— do they need help?
publisher	American Scientific Publishers
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ESL medical students’ oral proficiency— do they need help?

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