A conceptual paper on the students’ perceptions of the importance of Arabic language for tourism industry in Malaysia

Communication skill is one of the essential elements in tourism or smokeless industry. Oral and written communication skills are the top skills which are important to the tourist workers at different position level. Good communication skill in other foreign languages during the study will add value...

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Main Author: Md Sawari, Siti Salwa
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2018
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description Communication skill is one of the essential elements in tourism or smokeless industry. Oral and written communication skills are the top skills which are important to the tourist workers at different position level. Good communication skill in other foreign languages during the study will add value to the students' profile. Thus, this research attempts to explore the students’ perceptions on the importance of Arabic language for tourism industry in Malaysia. This research also aims to investigate the significant difference of students’ perceptions on the importance of Arabic language for tourism industry across the university. The data were collected from five public universities in Malaysia which offer Bachelor Degree in tourism. A quantitative approach will be adopted in this study. This paper is expected to provide the current tourism students awareness in learning Arabic language. In conclusion, it is hoped that this paper will give some insights to promote the courses in Arabic Language for university students in order to increase their efficiency level concerning the language.
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spelling iium-670562018-10-25T03:46:04Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/67056/ A conceptual paper on the students’ perceptions of the importance of Arabic language for tourism industry in Malaysia Md Sawari, Siti Salwa L Education (General) PE English Communication skill is one of the essential elements in tourism or smokeless industry. Oral and written communication skills are the top skills which are important to the tourist workers at different position level. Good communication skill in other foreign languages during the study will add value to the students' profile. Thus, this research attempts to explore the students’ perceptions on the importance of Arabic language for tourism industry in Malaysia. This research also aims to investigate the significant difference of students’ perceptions on the importance of Arabic language for tourism industry across the university. The data were collected from five public universities in Malaysia which offer Bachelor Degree in tourism. A quantitative approach will be adopted in this study. This paper is expected to provide the current tourism students awareness in learning Arabic language. In conclusion, it is hoped that this paper will give some insights to promote the courses in Arabic Language for university students in order to increase their efficiency level concerning the language. 2018-11-20 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67056/1/New%20Doc%202018-10-24.pdf Md Sawari, Siti Salwa (2018) A conceptual paper on the students’ perceptions of the importance of Arabic language for tourism industry in Malaysia. In: Graduate Student Conference 2018, 19th-20th Oct. 2018, Singapore. (Unpublished) https://www.nie.edu.sg/event-detail/graduate-student-conference-2018
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Md Sawari, Siti Salwa
A conceptual paper on the students’ perceptions of the importance of Arabic language for tourism industry in Malaysia
title A conceptual paper on the students’ perceptions of the importance of Arabic language for tourism industry in Malaysia
title_full A conceptual paper on the students’ perceptions of the importance of Arabic language for tourism industry in Malaysia
title_fullStr A conceptual paper on the students’ perceptions of the importance of Arabic language for tourism industry in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed A conceptual paper on the students’ perceptions of the importance of Arabic language for tourism industry in Malaysia
title_short A conceptual paper on the students’ perceptions of the importance of Arabic language for tourism industry in Malaysia
title_sort conceptual paper on the students’ perceptions of the importance of arabic language for tourism industry in malaysia
topic L Education (General)
PE English
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