{"id":9217,"date":"2013-10-21T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=9217"},"modified":"2015-05-21T22:32:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T22:32:41","slug":"malay-speaking-graduates-employability-depends-on-english-proficiency-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2013\/october-2013\/malay-speaking-graduates-employability-depends-on-english-proficiency-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Malay-Speaking Graduates\u2019 Employability Depends on English Proficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2013%2Foctober-2013%2Fmalay-speaking-graduates-employability-depends-on-english-proficiency-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=9217&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2 class=\"contentheading\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsitem_tools\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\"><span class=\"createdate\">MONDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2013 17:38 <\/span><span class=\"createby\">ADMINISTRATOR<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2013\/Kebolehpasaran-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Anusha Sandran<br \/>\nPix Izwan Azman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI , Oct 10, 2013 \u2013 The employability of Malay-speaking graduates is still good if their command of English, which is dominating the corporate and business world, is not ignored.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That was the consensus at a\u00a0 National Language discourse organized by the Institute of the Malay World and Civilization (ATMA), UKM entitled &#8221; Malay speaking Graduate\u2019s Employability, &#8221; here today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bank Islam Malaysia Bhd General Manager ( Strategic Relations) Datuk Wan Ismail Wan Yusoh said knowledge learnt should be used at the workplace and language is the medium to acquire and apply the knowledge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Datuk Wan ismail explained it is important to learn a language to acquire and apply knowledge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The same goes for the national language as every Malaysian should be proud to uphold the identity of the national language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, he cautioned, without the proficiency of the English language , it is difficult to conduct business practices , particularly in the corporate and business world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hj. Burhanuddin Md Radzi, Managing Director of Les &#8216; Copaque Production Sdn\u00a0 Bhd, which manages the famous animated cartoon production &#8221; Upin &amp; Ipin &#8221; also gave his views.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Burhanuddin said, &#8220;Graduates will struggle to market themselves in the workplace if they are not fluent in Malay and English&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Knowledge that you acquired will go to waste if you could not convey them through words,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said in the cartoon series &#8216;Upin &amp; Ipin&#8217; , English is not mixed with Malay, except for the word &#8216; marvelous &#8216; to instil pride of identity among children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In\u00a0 addition he said, &#8220;When the series Upin and Ipin was marketed in Indonesia, the television channel requested permission to translate the series in the Indonesian language, but I did not agree to do so because the humor found in the cartoon will be lost if translated &#8220;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the same English is important because it is a global language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Emeritus Dato&#8217; Dr Nik Hassan Shuhaimi Nik Abdul Rahman , Principal Research Fellow at ATMA , was of the opinion that 90 % of graduates\u2019 employability depends on personality, mentality and the way they carry themselves in the job market later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said to have those criteria one must have good command of the language preferred by an organisation.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2013\/Kebolehpasaran-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2013 17:38 ADMINISTRATOR By Anusha Sandran Pix Izwan Azman BANGI , Oct 10, 2013 \u2013 The employability<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2013\/october-2013\/malay-speaking-graduates-employability-depends-on-english-proficiency-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1224,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9220,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9217\/revisions\/9220"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}