Faculty’s and students’ perceptions on the oral skills necessary for success in medical studies and oral proficiency problems faced by medical students

Due to the importance of being able to communicate well in English for their studies and future career, this study attempted to compare and contrast between the perceptions of medical students and faculty members on the oral skills that are necessary for success in medical school and the extent of o...

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Main Authors: Abdul Malik, Faridah, Othman, Khairiah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
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Published: 2019
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spelling iium-788692020-02-21T06:21:16Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/78869/ Faculty’s and students’ perceptions on the oral skills necessary for success in medical studies and oral proficiency problems faced by medical students Abdul Malik, Faridah Othman, Khairiah PE English Due to the importance of being able to communicate well in English for their studies and future career, this study attempted to compare and contrast between the perceptions of medical students and faculty members on the oral skills that are necessary for success in medical school and the extent of oral proficiency problems faced by the students. To this end, two sets of questionnaire were distributed to 50 faculty members and 256 medical students who were in their clinical years. The results show that there is concordance of opinion by both the medical students and faculty members on the oral English problems as faced by the students. However, it was clear that several of the oral tasks perceived as integral to their success as medical students were not judged with the same gravity as the faculty members. This was an unexpected finding and perhaps it is something worth exploring further. The implications are that the real-life experiences of the faculty members do not correspond to the perceived expectations of the medical students. This is subject to further studies in the future. 2019 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78869/1/78869_%E2%80%9CFaculty%E2%80%99s%20and%20students%E2%80%99%20perceptions%20-%20slides.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78869/2/78869_%E2%80%9CFaculty%E2%80%99s%20and%20students%E2%80%99%20perceptions%20-%20abstract.pdf Abdul Malik, Faridah and Othman, Khairiah (2019) Faculty’s and students’ perceptions on the oral skills necessary for success in medical studies and oral proficiency problems faced by medical students. In: 3rd International Language and Tourism Conference 2019 (ILTC 2019), 18th-19th October 2019, Pagoh, Johor. (Unpublished) http://online.anyflip.com/uzgk/goid/mobile/index.html
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Abdul Malik, Faridah
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Faculty’s and students’ perceptions on the oral skills necessary for success in medical studies and oral proficiency problems faced by medical students
description Due to the importance of being able to communicate well in English for their studies and future career, this study attempted to compare and contrast between the perceptions of medical students and faculty members on the oral skills that are necessary for success in medical school and the extent of oral proficiency problems faced by the students. To this end, two sets of questionnaire were distributed to 50 faculty members and 256 medical students who were in their clinical years. The results show that there is concordance of opinion by both the medical students and faculty members on the oral English problems as faced by the students. However, it was clear that several of the oral tasks perceived as integral to their success as medical students were not judged with the same gravity as the faculty members. This was an unexpected finding and perhaps it is something worth exploring further. The implications are that the real-life experiences of the faculty members do not correspond to the perceived expectations of the medical students. This is subject to further studies in the future.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Abdul Malik, Faridah
Othman, Khairiah
author_facet Abdul Malik, Faridah
Othman, Khairiah
author_sort Abdul Malik, Faridah
title Faculty’s and students’ perceptions on the oral skills necessary for success in medical studies and oral proficiency problems faced by medical students
title_short Faculty’s and students’ perceptions on the oral skills necessary for success in medical studies and oral proficiency problems faced by medical students
title_full Faculty’s and students’ perceptions on the oral skills necessary for success in medical studies and oral proficiency problems faced by medical students
title_fullStr Faculty’s and students’ perceptions on the oral skills necessary for success in medical studies and oral proficiency problems faced by medical students
title_full_unstemmed Faculty’s and students’ perceptions on the oral skills necessary for success in medical studies and oral proficiency problems faced by medical students
title_sort faculty’s and students’ perceptions on the oral skills necessary for success in medical studies and oral proficiency problems faced by medical students
publishDate 2019
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/78869/
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