Importance Of English Proficiency

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In these years, English has been a growing recognition to be the global language. The rise of global language could facilitate the communications between people from different language backgrounds as well as the cross-cultural communication. While English is recognized as a common language, it removes the communication barriers and increases the convenience, like news, technology, science and many more. In Malaysia, English is expanded to an important tool for international socio-political correspondence and involvement; it is getting widely spoken on many formal occasions, and is referred as a working language to boosts efficiency and avoids misunderstanding. Likewise, the exchange of essential information like technologies and know-how is prompted tremendously.
In 2010, Malaysia Prime Minister had introduced the New Economic Model (NEM) initiative in order to move the country toward a high-income nation by 2020 through a knowledge-based economy (National Economic Advisory Council. 2010, pp. 105). English proficiency of Malaysian is reported as one of the key success factors in ‘New Economic Model for Malaysia Part 1’. Knowledge plays important role to drive the productivity and economic growth, therefore, there is increasing demand for workers to acquire a range of skills and adapt these skills continuously underlies the “learning economy”. With the globalization in business, the private sectors are becoming more competitive and make the local companies to think over the