'Speakables' helps sub-urban students be more confident in speaking English

PORT DICKSON: Students in the sub-urban areas are often associated with poor proficiency in the English language, and this will be a disadvantage to them.

Therefore, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Bukit Saujana here, in association with Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Rembau campus organised a programme to help sub-urban students to be more confident in speaking the language.

Called the ‘Speakables: The Final Chapter’, the one-day programme that involved 23 committee members of the university’s Public Speaking course, helped 49 Form 4 students to strengthen their communication skills in line with the programme’s objective, which aimed at enhancing self-confidence and public speaking skills especially among sub-urban school students.

Muhammad Azril Izuan Ramlan, the programme advisor and a lecturer at the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, said Speakables is a series of academic community outreach project that seeks to improve English proficiency in general.