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Impact of Rajarata University, Management Graduates’ English Language Proficiency On Employability

2019; Volume: 9; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.29322/ijsrp.9.08.2019.p9281

2250-3153

P.M. Chathurika Senanayake,

Competency Development and Evaluation

English language has already become the lingua franca of twenty first century and by now English is playing a pivotal role in Education sector as well as in service industry.Competency in English facilitates the graduates in entering in to both the private and public sectors.The graduate who is a master in English language will enter to the world of work-readiness with confidence.The purpose of this study was to fathom out the impact of English language proficiency of Management graduates, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka on employability.The research was conducted through quantitative and qualitative methods.A survey with structured questionnaire was conducted covering a sample of 80 graduates and they were asked questions about English language teaching at university, English language test at University, Attitudes towards English language and employability.The section B of the questionnaire was given to 25 Companies from small, medium, large and multi-national and questions about employer's perspective was asked.Responses of the survey were statistically analyzed using correlation, linear regression analysis, multiple regression analysis, scatter plot and Anova test using 20.0 version of SPSS software.Hypothesis was tested on 0.05 significant level and the results were driven out of them.All the alternative hypothesis were accepted and thus the study revealed that there is a positive correlation between English language proficiency and employability.Interviews were conducted among 10 graduates and 10 Companies and they were transcribed to gather information and it was concluded that they are on the view that there is a significant impact of English language proficiency on employability.Recommendations were made to improve the competency level of English language among graduates and to enlighten the workplace needs.