Paper Title
Field Trips and the Students’ Opinions Regarding the Impact and the use of Oral Communication at Workplace
Abstract
The main aim of this study is to investigate the impact of field trips and the use of oral communication skills at
workplace for the engineering students. Education is not fulfilled until the theoretical ideas learned in the classroom are
applied at the real workplace environment. To accelerate learning processes would be accomplished by implementing field
trip in the curriculum. This paper presents experiences on applying a field trip in an undergraduate polytechnic students. Data
for the study were gathered from 38 respondents from electrical and mechanical students who had completed their three oral
communication modules. A set of questionnaire and face to face was carried out. The finding of this study indicates that the
engineering students had impactful experience. The field trip gave awareness on the importance of oral communication skills
and the gaps on the language needs at workplace. Besides that, the findings also showed that they had the ability to use the oral
communication skills learned during the question and answer section without much struggle. This research concludes that due
to the competitiveness and advancement of the workplace communication, there is a vital need to adequately prepare
graduates with good English Oral communication skills. The contribution to new knowledge in this study included the
development of advice on the impact and benefit of field trips education to undergraduates. The researchers recommended that
educational trips should be included in the curriculum wherever possible.
Keywords - Field trip, English Oral communication skills, impact