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Title: ASSESSING THE ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP) ASPECTS ON THE EMPLOYABILITY OF ESP COMPLETERS
Authors: NGUYEN THI THU
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NGUYEN THI THU Senior Lecturer at Vietnam Trade Union University
MLA 8 THU, NGUYEN THI. "ASSESSING THE ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP) ASPECTS ON THE EMPLOYABILITY OF ESP COMPLETERS." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 8, no. 6, June 2023, pp. 1240-1248, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i06.002. Accessed June 2023. APA 6 THU, N. (2023, June). ASSESSING THE ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP) ASPECTS ON THE EMPLOYABILITY OF ESP COMPLETERS. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 8(6), 1240-1248. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i06.002 Chicago THU, NGUYEN THI. "ASSESSING THE ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP) ASPECTS ON THE EMPLOYABILITY OF ESP COMPLETERS." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 8, no. 6 (June 2023), 1240-1248. Accessed June, 2023. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i06.002.
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ABSTRACT: The study aimed to identify the employers and alumni respondents’ background characteristics. In addition to, it assessed the ESP aspects on the employability of ESP completers. It was also intended to ascertain any significant difference on the assessment of the ESP learners’ employability between alumni and employer. The descriptive method with 46 employers and 142 alumni were chosen randomly. The survey questionnaires were used to gather the data which was analyzed and evaluated by using Excel and SPSS programs for t-test analysis. For some qualitative criteria, respondents answered and assessed according to level from 1 to 5, equal to grades: “very poor/not responsive”, “poor/ fairly responsive”, “good/ responsive”, and ‘very good/ highly responsive.”The study presented the weighted mean distribution on the ability of the student-respondents in using ESP after participating in the training courses in the English centers with the average weighted mean of 3.22 of which 3.14 (the employer) and 3.30 (the alumni).The results of ANOVA test showed that sig = 0.244> 0.05, so there is no difference in the assessment of employability between alumni and employer.

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