@misc{10481/108555,
year = {2025},
month = {10},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/108555},
abstract = {Soft skills represent a very subjective business item that has been utilised as a
strategic competence in the form of communication strategy. Communication
strategies involve the vast range of linguistic and paralinguistic techniques such as
the use of both achievement and reduction strategies. Despite being highly human
based, the use of communication strategies needs to be learned and developed.
Although one of the primary factors of communication strategy is the independence
from linguistic rules, a rampant use of strategies such as topic fronting and
message abandonment strategy among ESL learners might affect them adversely
especially in academic discourse. This study looked into this strategy among the
TESL trainees from Universiti Malaysia Sabah and how this affected their
microteaching. It further analysed the relationship of the microteaching practice
with the attainment of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
(CEFR) in rural classrooms taught by the TESL trainees during their practicum.
This study used descriptive statistics analysis and a one-sample t-test to determine
if TESL trainees’ microteaching performance has a statistically significant impact
on their practicum performance. The t-value of 32.010 indicates that the sample
mean (83.78) is significantly higher than the population mean (76.68). These
results are validated with 5 themes obtained from an interview among 11 TESL
trainees after the microteaching that revealed that they would use alternative
communication strategies to replace message abandonment. This quantifies the
improvement, showing that students who underwent microteaching performed
significantly better during practicum observations.},
publisher = {Universidad de Granada},
keywords = {Ommunication strategies},
keywords = {Message replacement},
keywords = {CEFR attainment in rural schools},
title = {Achieving CEFR Competency by Reducing Message Abandonment Among TESL Trainees in Sabah},
doi = {10.48047/jett.2025.16.06.12},
author = {Soekarno, Megawati and Chong, Shin Yue},
}