People use language to get/transmit information. Language enables knowledge and also experience to be transmitted into meaning. It is through this transformation that people come to understand their experiential world. Different disciplines have their own lingos. And recognising discipline specific ways of using language can help students develop a sense of how knowledge is organised. It also enables them to better read, write, evaluate, and improvise texts in the disciplines. The use of productive skills among language learner is known to be different among learners of different disciplines. This quantitative research is done to investigate how learners use productive, receptive and productive skills in the learning of English as a second language (ESL) across disciplines. The instrument used is a survey. 252 respondents were purposively chosen to answer the survey. The survey has 3 main sections. Section A has items on the demographic profile. Section B has 10 items on Receptive Skills and Section C has 20 items on Productive Skills. Generally, the social sciences and business showed higher mean for speaking and writing compared to their science and technology peers. This is in line with the findings by from past studies that show computing students reported the lowest overall strategy use. Findings from this study has interesting implications for teaching English as a second language (ESL) to learners form different disciplines. The findings in this study contributes to the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language among young adults. In addition to that, this study also contributes to the understanding of the use of productive skills among language learners.
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To Cite this Article: Abdul Rahman, S. A. S., Rahmat, N. H., Yunos, D. R. M., Abdul Rahman, S. S. S., Alias, N. E., & Arepin, M. (2022). Investigating Productive Language Skills Across Disciplines. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences. 12(6), 1051 – 1061.
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