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Papers by Jebunnesa Jeba
Technology in Language Teaching & Learning, Aug 19, 2022
Language Testing in Focus: An International Journal
The pandemic COVID-19 has posed unique challenges to the educational landscape worldwide (Chung, ... more The pandemic COVID-19 has posed unique challenges to the educational landscape worldwide (Chung, & Choi, 2021) including language assessment. It has forced many language educators and language assessment specialists to rethink their approach to assessment and explore new ways of evaluating language proficiency resulting in innovation in language assessment territory (Ockey, 2021). While there is available literature (Chapelle & Douglas, 2006; Winke & Isbell, 2017) on the planned use of technology for assessing language proficiency in technologically rich contexts, little is known about online language assessment at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the book Technology-assisted language assessment in diverse contexts: lessons from the transition to online testing during covid-19 is an epochal contribution offering a detailed overview of technology-assisted language assessment in various contexts, with a particular focus on the transition to online testing during the COVID...
Technology in Language Teaching and Learning
Standard health service requires proper communication. Communication problems are at the core of ... more Standard health service requires proper communication. Communication problems are at the core of many unexpected health care events comprising unexpected patient deaths and harmful injuries as well as the substantial judicial obligation and fiscal loss for health organizations. Therefore health care practitioners need to have the ability to communicate effectively with diverse patients to provide the desired care. In Malaysia diverse people have been meeting and mixing since the very beginning of its history, so linguistic competency has become a basic quality for health practitioners in Malaysia. Each profession demands job-related language proficiency. In this research, the researcher conducted a case study on a group of nurses from University College Shahputra, Kuantan. She administered a writing test named Occupational English Writing Test, a profession-oriented testing instrument, on the nursing students of University College Shahputra to assess their performance and its suitability in Malaysian context. Some nurses were also interviewed individually. From the test and interview, it stands out that the test is very suitable to be used in Malaysian context and it will have a positive impact on Malaysian health care if it can be implemented for the nurses in Malaysia.
American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013
The growth of culturally and linguistically diverse population in Malaysia has led to many effort... more The growth of culturally and linguistically diverse population in Malaysia has led to many efforts to encourage or ensure that health care systems respond to the distinct needs of culturally and linguistically different patients by becoming "culturally competent". So the implementation of OET will play an increasingly expedient role both in medication and in medical tourism. Occupational English Test is an English language proficiency test for health practitioners intending to check whether health practitioners have sufficient knowledge of English to be used in job-related context. It is designed by Professor Tim Mc Namara under contact with Australian Federal Government and is used by Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. This study using a case study method intends to know the acceptability of OET in Malaysia. The objectives of this study are to assess Malaysian nurses' performance in the existing OET writing test and to know their attitude towards the test. The cases are 31 nursing students from a reputed nursing college in Kuantan, Malaysia. The researcher administers some sample OET writing test questions on the cases at first so that they can have a clear idea about OET and after the test , she interviews 5 cases individually to know their view in detail. The researcher analyzes the result manually. From the test and especially from the interviews, it comes out that OET is very much acceptable to the nurses and though most them are not good in grammar, their performance in test is satisfactory on average because the task is associated with their job.
Journal of Education and Practice, 2013
Nurses in Malaysia are not required to sit for any specific English Language test that suits the ... more Nurses in Malaysia are not required to sit for any specific English Language test that suits the medical setting. At the moment the existing English Language tests do not test nurses specifically to use English Language in the context of medical situation. It is the objective of this research to recommend a special test, Occupational English Test (OET) specifically designed for these health practitioners. Specifically the objectives of this research are to assess Malaysian nurses' performance in the OET, to evaluate the suitability of the OET in Malaysian context. The OET is a language test used to assess health practitioners' English language proficiency in medical and health context. It is designed to ensure that language competency is assessed in a relevant professional context. This study employs a case study involving a group of nurses from the medical centre UMP (Pusat Kesihatan Pelajar). The nurses chosen as samples for this research cover all the nurses of Pusat Kesihatan Pelajar. The samples are required to sit for a writing test and they are also interviewed. The test results are analysed manually. Three sets of sample test are revised based on the result of the test and interview and the revised tests will be used to conduct a study on the nursing students of Kolej Kejururawatan and the nursing students of the school of nursing of IIUM to evaluate the suitability of the test in Malaysian context.
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science, 2013
Health practitioners have to demonstrate that their English language proficiency meets certain st... more Health practitioners have to demonstrate that their English language proficiency meets certain standards. Being an important part of the healthcare team, nurses who work in multilingual context need to have necessary command in English to perform their duties effectively. Though Malaysia is a country full of diverse people, there is no specific English language test for Malaysian nurses now. This research aims to experiment a special test, the Occupational English Writing Test (OET) which is specifically designed for health practitioners, on the nurses of two nursing colleges in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. Specifically the objectives of this research are to assess Malaysian nurses' performance in the OET and to evaluate its suitability and acceptability in Malaysian context. This study is a case study. The nurses chosen as samples for this research cover 53 nursing students from Kolej Kejururawatan, Kuantan and University College Shahputra, Kuantan. The researcher administers a questionnaire which comprises of three sample OET writing tests. She also interviews some samples individually. The result of this study shows that nurses' English proficiency is not satisfactory. The interviews obviously signify that nurses' lack of communication is a barrier to patient safety. Therefore the nurses need to demonstrate a good communication skill in working context. Thus their language proficiency needs to be tested and OET is suitable for this purpose because OET exemplifies the real difficulty of language performance of health practitioners in work-related context. From the research, it is also crystal clear that OET is very much acceptable for Malaysian nurses.
Language used in a particular profession is particular. This study conducted a test, Occupational... more Language used in a particular profession is particular. This study conducted a test, Occupational English Writing Test, which is specially designed for medical practitioners, on a group of nurses. The researcher uses a case study where the cases are the nurses of medical centre University Malaysia Pahang. The medical centre of UMP maintains good medical unit where the nurses are trained and have to care diverse student patients. Therefore these nurses need to be proficient in English to treat the diverse student patients. The researcher administered a sample Occupational English Writing Test on all the nurses of the medical centre to give them an idea of the test and to see how they would perform in the existing test. After the test, the researcher got their opinion about the test through interview. The samples responded spontaneously. From the writing test and mainly from the interview it comes out that Occupational English Writing Test is appropriate to assess the nurses' Engl...
Health practitioners have to demonstrate that their English language proficiency meets certain st... more Health practitioners have to demonstrate that their English language proficiency meets certain standards. Being an important part of the healthcare team, nurses who work in multi-lingual context need to have necessary command in English to perform their duties effectively. Though Malaysia is a country full of diverse people, there is no specific English language test for Malaysian nurses now. This research aims to experiment a special test, the Occupational English Writing Test (OET) which is specifically designed for health practitioners, on the nurses of two nursing colleges in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. Specifically the objectives of this research are to assess Malaysian nurses’ performance in the OET and to evaluate its suitability and acceptability in Malaysian context. This study is a case study. The nurses chosen as samples for this research cover 53 nursing students from Kolej Kejururawatan, Kuantan and University College Shahputra, Kuantan. The researcher administers a questionnaire which comprises of three sample OET writing tests. She also interviews some samples individually. The result of this study shows that nurses’ English proficiency is not satisfactory. The interviews obviously signify that nurses’ lack of communication is a barrier to patient safety. Therefore the nurses need to demonstrate a good communication skill in working context. Thus their language proficiency needs to be tested and OET is suitable for this purpose because OET exemplifies the real difficulty of language performance of health practitioners in work-related context. From the research, it is also crystal clear that OET is very much acceptable for Malaysian nurses.
Standard health service requires proper communication. Communication problems are at the core of ... more Standard health service requires proper communication. Communication problems are at the
core of many unexpected health care events comprising unexpected patient deaths and
harmful injuries as well as the substantial judicial obligation and fiscal loss for health
organizations. Therefore health care practitioners need to have the ability to communicate
effectively with diverse patients to provide the desired care. In Malaysia diverse people have
been meeting and mixing since the very beginning of its history, so linguistic competency has
become a basic quality for health practitioners in Malaysia. Each profession demands jobrelated
language proficiency. In this research, the researcher conducted a case study on a
group of nurses from University College Shahputra, Kuantan. She administered a writing test
named Occupational English Writing Test, a profession-oriented testing instrument, on the
nursing students of University College Shahputra to assess their performance and its
suitability in Malaysian context. Some nurses were also interviewed individually. From the
test and interview, it stands out that the test is very suitable to be used in Malaysian context
and it will have a positive impact on Malaysian health care if it can be implemented for the
nurses in Malaysia.
Nurses in Malaysia are not required to sit for any specific English Language test that suits the ... more Nurses in Malaysia are not required to sit for any specific English Language test that suits the medical setting. At
the moment the existing English Language tests do not test nurses specifically to use English Language in the
context of medical situation. It is the objective of this research to recommend a special test, Occupational
English Test (OET) specifically designed for these health practitioners. Specifically the objectives of this
research are to assess Malaysian nurses’ performance in the OET, to evaluate the suitability of the OET in
Malaysian context. The OET is a language test used to assess health practitioners’ English language proficiency
in medical and health context. It is designed to ensure that language competency is assessed in a relevant
professional context. This study employs a case study involving a group of nurses from the medical centre UMP
(Pusat Kesihatan Pelajar). The nurses chosen as samples for this research cover all the nurses of Pusat Kesihatan
Pelajar. The samples are required to sit for a writing test and they are also interviewed. The test results are
analysed manually. Three sets of sample test are revised based on the result of the test and interview and the
revised tests will be used to conduct a study on the nursing students of Kolej Kejururawatan and the nursing
students of the school of nursing of IIUM to evaluate the suitability of the test in Malaysian context.
The growth of the culturally and linguistically diverse population in Malaysia has led to many ef... more The growth of the culturally and linguistically diverse population in Malaysia has led to many efforts to encourage or ensure that health care systems respond to the distinct needs of culturally and linguistically different patients by becoming “culturally competent”. So the implementation of OET will play an increasingly expedient role both in medication and in medical tourism. Occupational English Test is an English language proficiency test for health practitioners intending to check whether health practitioners have sufficient knowledge of English in job-related context. It is designed by Professor Tim Mc Namara under contact with Australian Federal Government and is used by Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. This study using a case study method intends to know the acceptability of OET in Malaysia. The objectives of this study are to assess Malaysian nurses’ performance in the existing OET writing test and to know their attitude towards the test. The cases are 31 nursing students from a reputed nursing college in Kuantan, Malaysia. The researcher administer some sample OET writing test questions on the cases at first so that they can have a clear idea about OET and after the test , she interviews 5 cases individually to know their view in detail. The researcher analyzes the result manually. From the test and especially from the interviews, it comes out that OET is very much acceptable to the nurses and though most of them are not good in grammar, their performance in test is satisfactory on average because the task is associated with their job.
Language used in a particular profession is particular.
Technology in Language Teaching & Learning, Aug 19, 2022
Language Testing in Focus: An International Journal
The pandemic COVID-19 has posed unique challenges to the educational landscape worldwide (Chung, ... more The pandemic COVID-19 has posed unique challenges to the educational landscape worldwide (Chung, & Choi, 2021) including language assessment. It has forced many language educators and language assessment specialists to rethink their approach to assessment and explore new ways of evaluating language proficiency resulting in innovation in language assessment territory (Ockey, 2021). While there is available literature (Chapelle & Douglas, 2006; Winke & Isbell, 2017) on the planned use of technology for assessing language proficiency in technologically rich contexts, little is known about online language assessment at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the book Technology-assisted language assessment in diverse contexts: lessons from the transition to online testing during covid-19 is an epochal contribution offering a detailed overview of technology-assisted language assessment in various contexts, with a particular focus on the transition to online testing during the COVID...
Technology in Language Teaching and Learning
Standard health service requires proper communication. Communication problems are at the core of ... more Standard health service requires proper communication. Communication problems are at the core of many unexpected health care events comprising unexpected patient deaths and harmful injuries as well as the substantial judicial obligation and fiscal loss for health organizations. Therefore health care practitioners need to have the ability to communicate effectively with diverse patients to provide the desired care. In Malaysia diverse people have been meeting and mixing since the very beginning of its history, so linguistic competency has become a basic quality for health practitioners in Malaysia. Each profession demands job-related language proficiency. In this research, the researcher conducted a case study on a group of nurses from University College Shahputra, Kuantan. She administered a writing test named Occupational English Writing Test, a profession-oriented testing instrument, on the nursing students of University College Shahputra to assess their performance and its suitability in Malaysian context. Some nurses were also interviewed individually. From the test and interview, it stands out that the test is very suitable to be used in Malaysian context and it will have a positive impact on Malaysian health care if it can be implemented for the nurses in Malaysia.
American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013
The growth of culturally and linguistically diverse population in Malaysia has led to many effort... more The growth of culturally and linguistically diverse population in Malaysia has led to many efforts to encourage or ensure that health care systems respond to the distinct needs of culturally and linguistically different patients by becoming "culturally competent". So the implementation of OET will play an increasingly expedient role both in medication and in medical tourism. Occupational English Test is an English language proficiency test for health practitioners intending to check whether health practitioners have sufficient knowledge of English to be used in job-related context. It is designed by Professor Tim Mc Namara under contact with Australian Federal Government and is used by Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. This study using a case study method intends to know the acceptability of OET in Malaysia. The objectives of this study are to assess Malaysian nurses' performance in the existing OET writing test and to know their attitude towards the test. The cases are 31 nursing students from a reputed nursing college in Kuantan, Malaysia. The researcher administers some sample OET writing test questions on the cases at first so that they can have a clear idea about OET and after the test , she interviews 5 cases individually to know their view in detail. The researcher analyzes the result manually. From the test and especially from the interviews, it comes out that OET is very much acceptable to the nurses and though most them are not good in grammar, their performance in test is satisfactory on average because the task is associated with their job.
Journal of Education and Practice, 2013
Nurses in Malaysia are not required to sit for any specific English Language test that suits the ... more Nurses in Malaysia are not required to sit for any specific English Language test that suits the medical setting. At the moment the existing English Language tests do not test nurses specifically to use English Language in the context of medical situation. It is the objective of this research to recommend a special test, Occupational English Test (OET) specifically designed for these health practitioners. Specifically the objectives of this research are to assess Malaysian nurses' performance in the OET, to evaluate the suitability of the OET in Malaysian context. The OET is a language test used to assess health practitioners' English language proficiency in medical and health context. It is designed to ensure that language competency is assessed in a relevant professional context. This study employs a case study involving a group of nurses from the medical centre UMP (Pusat Kesihatan Pelajar). The nurses chosen as samples for this research cover all the nurses of Pusat Kesihatan Pelajar. The samples are required to sit for a writing test and they are also interviewed. The test results are analysed manually. Three sets of sample test are revised based on the result of the test and interview and the revised tests will be used to conduct a study on the nursing students of Kolej Kejururawatan and the nursing students of the school of nursing of IIUM to evaluate the suitability of the test in Malaysian context.
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science, 2013
Health practitioners have to demonstrate that their English language proficiency meets certain st... more Health practitioners have to demonstrate that their English language proficiency meets certain standards. Being an important part of the healthcare team, nurses who work in multilingual context need to have necessary command in English to perform their duties effectively. Though Malaysia is a country full of diverse people, there is no specific English language test for Malaysian nurses now. This research aims to experiment a special test, the Occupational English Writing Test (OET) which is specifically designed for health practitioners, on the nurses of two nursing colleges in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. Specifically the objectives of this research are to assess Malaysian nurses' performance in the OET and to evaluate its suitability and acceptability in Malaysian context. This study is a case study. The nurses chosen as samples for this research cover 53 nursing students from Kolej Kejururawatan, Kuantan and University College Shahputra, Kuantan. The researcher administers a questionnaire which comprises of three sample OET writing tests. She also interviews some samples individually. The result of this study shows that nurses' English proficiency is not satisfactory. The interviews obviously signify that nurses' lack of communication is a barrier to patient safety. Therefore the nurses need to demonstrate a good communication skill in working context. Thus their language proficiency needs to be tested and OET is suitable for this purpose because OET exemplifies the real difficulty of language performance of health practitioners in work-related context. From the research, it is also crystal clear that OET is very much acceptable for Malaysian nurses.
Language used in a particular profession is particular. This study conducted a test, Occupational... more Language used in a particular profession is particular. This study conducted a test, Occupational English Writing Test, which is specially designed for medical practitioners, on a group of nurses. The researcher uses a case study where the cases are the nurses of medical centre University Malaysia Pahang. The medical centre of UMP maintains good medical unit where the nurses are trained and have to care diverse student patients. Therefore these nurses need to be proficient in English to treat the diverse student patients. The researcher administered a sample Occupational English Writing Test on all the nurses of the medical centre to give them an idea of the test and to see how they would perform in the existing test. After the test, the researcher got their opinion about the test through interview. The samples responded spontaneously. From the writing test and mainly from the interview it comes out that Occupational English Writing Test is appropriate to assess the nurses' Engl...
Health practitioners have to demonstrate that their English language proficiency meets certain st... more Health practitioners have to demonstrate that their English language proficiency meets certain standards. Being an important part of the healthcare team, nurses who work in multi-lingual context need to have necessary command in English to perform their duties effectively. Though Malaysia is a country full of diverse people, there is no specific English language test for Malaysian nurses now. This research aims to experiment a special test, the Occupational English Writing Test (OET) which is specifically designed for health practitioners, on the nurses of two nursing colleges in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. Specifically the objectives of this research are to assess Malaysian nurses’ performance in the OET and to evaluate its suitability and acceptability in Malaysian context. This study is a case study. The nurses chosen as samples for this research cover 53 nursing students from Kolej Kejururawatan, Kuantan and University College Shahputra, Kuantan. The researcher administers a questionnaire which comprises of three sample OET writing tests. She also interviews some samples individually. The result of this study shows that nurses’ English proficiency is not satisfactory. The interviews obviously signify that nurses’ lack of communication is a barrier to patient safety. Therefore the nurses need to demonstrate a good communication skill in working context. Thus their language proficiency needs to be tested and OET is suitable for this purpose because OET exemplifies the real difficulty of language performance of health practitioners in work-related context. From the research, it is also crystal clear that OET is very much acceptable for Malaysian nurses.
Standard health service requires proper communication. Communication problems are at the core of ... more Standard health service requires proper communication. Communication problems are at the
core of many unexpected health care events comprising unexpected patient deaths and
harmful injuries as well as the substantial judicial obligation and fiscal loss for health
organizations. Therefore health care practitioners need to have the ability to communicate
effectively with diverse patients to provide the desired care. In Malaysia diverse people have
been meeting and mixing since the very beginning of its history, so linguistic competency has
become a basic quality for health practitioners in Malaysia. Each profession demands jobrelated
language proficiency. In this research, the researcher conducted a case study on a
group of nurses from University College Shahputra, Kuantan. She administered a writing test
named Occupational English Writing Test, a profession-oriented testing instrument, on the
nursing students of University College Shahputra to assess their performance and its
suitability in Malaysian context. Some nurses were also interviewed individually. From the
test and interview, it stands out that the test is very suitable to be used in Malaysian context
and it will have a positive impact on Malaysian health care if it can be implemented for the
nurses in Malaysia.
Nurses in Malaysia are not required to sit for any specific English Language test that suits the ... more Nurses in Malaysia are not required to sit for any specific English Language test that suits the medical setting. At
the moment the existing English Language tests do not test nurses specifically to use English Language in the
context of medical situation. It is the objective of this research to recommend a special test, Occupational
English Test (OET) specifically designed for these health practitioners. Specifically the objectives of this
research are to assess Malaysian nurses’ performance in the OET, to evaluate the suitability of the OET in
Malaysian context. The OET is a language test used to assess health practitioners’ English language proficiency
in medical and health context. It is designed to ensure that language competency is assessed in a relevant
professional context. This study employs a case study involving a group of nurses from the medical centre UMP
(Pusat Kesihatan Pelajar). The nurses chosen as samples for this research cover all the nurses of Pusat Kesihatan
Pelajar. The samples are required to sit for a writing test and they are also interviewed. The test results are
analysed manually. Three sets of sample test are revised based on the result of the test and interview and the
revised tests will be used to conduct a study on the nursing students of Kolej Kejururawatan and the nursing
students of the school of nursing of IIUM to evaluate the suitability of the test in Malaysian context.
The growth of the culturally and linguistically diverse population in Malaysia has led to many ef... more The growth of the culturally and linguistically diverse population in Malaysia has led to many efforts to encourage or ensure that health care systems respond to the distinct needs of culturally and linguistically different patients by becoming “culturally competent”. So the implementation of OET will play an increasingly expedient role both in medication and in medical tourism. Occupational English Test is an English language proficiency test for health practitioners intending to check whether health practitioners have sufficient knowledge of English in job-related context. It is designed by Professor Tim Mc Namara under contact with Australian Federal Government and is used by Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. This study using a case study method intends to know the acceptability of OET in Malaysia. The objectives of this study are to assess Malaysian nurses’ performance in the existing OET writing test and to know their attitude towards the test. The cases are 31 nursing students from a reputed nursing college in Kuantan, Malaysia. The researcher administer some sample OET writing test questions on the cases at first so that they can have a clear idea about OET and after the test , she interviews 5 cases individually to know their view in detail. The researcher analyzes the result manually. From the test and especially from the interviews, it comes out that OET is very much acceptable to the nurses and though most of them are not good in grammar, their performance in test is satisfactory on average because the task is associated with their job.
Language used in a particular profession is particular.