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In my fifth posting, I'm gonna discuss about the online language proficiency assessment. In last week tutorial, we have discuss about the online language proficiency assessment in OLT book. In the current era of globalization, mastery English is associated with leading edge scientific, technological and economic development. The mastery of English is so important for developing nations such as Malaysian to gain competitive edge in the global market.
Anyway, it doesn't mean to substitute the national language, Bahasa Melayu that have well imbended and well entrenched. Moreover, because English is so widely spoken, it has often been referred to as a "global language". As the world Lingua Franca or in other words the Lingua Franca of the modern era, meaning that English is the world's universal language. While English is not an official language in many countries, it is currently the language most often taught as a second language around the world. This re-emphasize on mastering the English language is a significant policy change that has affected educators, especially those whose professionals’ experiences have largely involved the use of Bahasa Malaysia as the medium of instruction.
For teachers of mathematics and science are receiving English language training through the English for Teaching of Mathematics and Science (ETeMs) program conducted by the Ministry of Education. Meanwhile, public universities such as UKM also develops programmed that aim to prepare lecturers trained in Bahasa Melayu, to conduct their lectures and tutorials in English by 2005. This paper proceeds to share the experience at the School of Language and Linguistics of UKM which was commissioned to develop the English language training module for in-service lecturers at UKM.
UKM is a university that provide a higher education based on nationalistic endeavor, adopting Bahasa Malaysia as the medium of instruction. This was managed through translation of knowledge from English into Bahasa Malaysia by academicians. However, in this new millennium and with the onset of globalization, UKM in its efforts to remain competitive in a borderless world has now given emphasize to the use of English for academic and professional purposes. All faculties have been informed that the Senate encourages 30%-70% of first degree program to be conducted in English, in particular for science and technology related discipline such as engineering, Information Sciences and Technology among others. It is also has been given to post-graduate programs to increase the number of foreign students enrolled in UKM.
In my fifth posting, I'm gonna discuss about the online language proficiency assessment. In last week tutorial, we have discuss about the online language proficiency assessment in OLT book. In the current era of globalization, mastery English is associated with leading edge scientific, technological and economic development. The mastery of English is so important for developing nations such as Malaysian to gain competitive edge in the global market.
Anyway, it doesn't mean to substitute the national language, Bahasa Melayu that have well imbended and well entrenched. Moreover, because English is so widely spoken, it has often been referred to as a "global language". As the world Lingua Franca or in other words the Lingua Franca of the modern era, meaning that English is the world's universal language. While English is not an official language in many countries, it is currently the language most often taught as a second language around the world. This re-emphasize on mastering the English language is a significant policy change that has affected educators, especially those whose professionals’ experiences have largely involved the use of Bahasa Malaysia as the medium of instruction.
For teachers of mathematics and science are receiving English language training through the English for Teaching of Mathematics and Science (ETeMs) program conducted by the Ministry of Education. Meanwhile, public universities such as UKM also develops programmed that aim to prepare lecturers trained in Bahasa Melayu, to conduct their lectures and tutorials in English by 2005. This paper proceeds to share the experience at the School of Language and Linguistics of UKM which was commissioned to develop the English language training module for in-service lecturers at UKM.
UKM is a university that provide a higher education based on nationalistic endeavor, adopting Bahasa Malaysia as the medium of instruction. This was managed through translation of knowledge from English into Bahasa Malaysia by academicians. However, in this new millennium and with the onset of globalization, UKM in its efforts to remain competitive in a borderless world has now given emphasize to the use of English for academic and professional purposes. All faculties have been informed that the Senate encourages 30%-70% of first degree program to be conducted in English, in particular for science and technology related discipline such as engineering, Information Sciences and Technology among others. It is also has been given to post-graduate programs to increase the number of foreign students enrolled in UKM.
Learning Care Assessment module allows the portfolio owners to create and manage questions. All the questions and results of test takers are kept in a database built in the system. The questions can be programmed in several forms, which are
- fill in the blanks
- true and false
- multiple-choice
- multiple answer
- matching
- ordering
- short essay
So, as the conclusion the experience in developing and conducting the online test for the UKM academicians so that profiling of their language proficiency can be conducted for the purpose of placement of English training modules is very valuable indeed. Ideally, the online test should inform on the lecturers' general language ability, linguistic knowledge, and domain use of language. The UKM community also needs to be informed about the test so that majority of the lecturers will come forward and self-rate their proficiency level online.
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Good write up. Just that your last posting the font is too small. As your background is black you need brighter colors and bigger fonts so that we could read your blogs easily. Nice pictures and it shows that you have put in a lot of effort.
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