English communication skills: a study on effect toward future performance of students in UiTM Sarawak / Grace Anyie Jock, Caroline Gumba and Veronica Burie Madin

As we all know, UiTM is the only one public university that used the English language as the main medium in study process. It is one of the uniqueness of UiTM. It is important for the student to able to communicate well in this language as it is reflecting to the university name too. There are many benefits that the students can gain by enhancing their English language communication skills. It is not only makes them easy to fit in future work environment but also help a lot in understanding during the learning process. It is quite make us sad, because there is still a gap for the students in mastering this language. Communication skills divided into five types. Firstly is interpersonal skill. Next is formal and informal skill. Besides that is the internal and external skill. Non – verbal and actives listening is also considered under the communication skills. In order to cope with this problem, we come out with several solutions. For examples, we will propose to the management to provide more workshops to student on how to enhance their English language.