English for International Job Opportunities
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Table 4. Students’ perception on English for communication
English for international communication
SA A
+ D
SD -
10 Communicate in English
is easy. 10,2
31,3 41,4
53,9 4,7
58,6
11 I want to improve my
English abiliities. 46,9
49,2 96,1
3,1 0,8
3,9
12 English is important for
social life. 30,5
53,9 84,
14,1 1,6
15,6
13 English helps you
increase your self- confidence.
32,8 54,7
87,5 10,2
2,3 12,5
14 English helps you
communicate with tourists.
39,8 53,1
93,0 7,0
0,0 7,0
15 Everyone should be
capable in English because it is an
international language. 31,3
56,3 87,5
11,7 0,8
12,5
could decrease their motivation to learn English. The possible solution that may the government or the educators could do is give an English program to the
students to raise their awareness of the importance of English in order to give them a motivation to learn it, like what the government of Cameroon done Focho
2011, p. 10. However, the rest of the items of this category show a good result. More
than 80 of the students gave positive attitudes towards item number 11 to 15. It means a huge number of participants were aware about the importance of English
in communication. It does not take any differen ces with Jefizai‟s result that said
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the biggest students‟ intrinsic motivation in learning English is to improve their language skill and for their social interaction with native speakers Jefizai, 2012.