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Direct linkIsai Amutan Krishnan; Mahendran Maniam; Mazlin Binti Mohamed Mokhtar – SAGE Open, 2024
The current study was undertaken to investigate how fresh graduates perform in English and why they were successful, reserved, or unsuccessful in job interviews from the perspective of the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) Appraisal Theory namely from the Attitude subsystem. The theory focuses on the English language proficiency of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Employment Interviews, Performance
Krishnan, Isai Amutan; Ramalingam, Selvajothi; Kaliappen, Narentheren; Uthamaputhran, Sathiswaran; Suppiah, Puspalata C.; Mello, Geraldine De; Paramasivam, Sheela – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the words and phrases used by student graduates in job interviews. Twenty-Seven Malaysian graduates participated in the study. "How to face challenges" was the focal theme chosen for analysis of the data. The findings indicated that successful interviewees covered six out of seven…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Potential, Language Usage, Foreign Countries
Amutan Krishnan, Isai; Mohd Jan, Jariah; Zainuddin, Siti Zaidah Binti – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the knowledge of lexical items in a job interview by recent graduates. Design/methodology/approach: The data were collected from one of the organisations in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. Twenty-seven recent graduates participated in the study. The structured standard interview questions were used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Employment Interviews, Semantics
Download full textRamalingam, Selvajothi; Krishnan, Isai Amutan; Suppiah, Puspalata C.; Maruthai, Elanttamil – Asian Journal of University Education, 2020
The present study was conducted to analyse the use of word order in job interviews. The data was collected from participants in an organisation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ten candidates of different races between the ages of 23 and 25 participated in the study. Radford's syntactic theory of word order was employed to qualitatively analyse the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Word Order, Employment Interviews, Job Applicants
Awang, Suryani; Hassan, Wan Nurhafiza Fatini Wan; Abdullah, Normah; Zakaria, Wan Nuur Fazliza Wan; Razak, Siti Shazlin – English Language Teaching, 2022
Communication strategies (CS) have been generally used to overcome oral communication problems in delivering the intended messages. While studies on CS mostly involved simulated communication contexts, the current study deviates from the past studies on CS by identifying the types of CS employed by candidates of real job interviews and examining…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zainuddin, Zaharatul Akmar Ahmad; Selamat, Suzanah – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2012
Every year polytechnics in Malaysia produce thousands of graduates in vocational areas, however, these graduates have to strive in a competitive job market against graduates from other tertiary institutions. This study aims to investigate polytechnic students efficacy on their communication skills. These skills are crucial in determining their…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, Competition
