Education for employability in the health tourism industry: A contribution of English language courses to soft skills development
Along with the growing demands on the tourism and hospitality market, soft skills have been increasingly stated as the main prerequisites for employability. Therefore, this study set out to investigate the health tourism students' perceptions of the soft skills they possess with an emphasis on...
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Faculty of Philosophy, Kosovska Mitrovica
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| description | Along with the growing demands on the tourism and hospitality market, soft skills have been increasingly stated as the main prerequisites for employability. Therefore, this study set out to investigate the health tourism students' perceptions of the soft skills they possess with an emphasis on the contribution of English language courses to their development. The data were collected employing the tailor-made questionnaire which addressed 12 soft skills deemed the most necessary for the inclusion in the (health) tourism labour market. Students perceived their soft skills to be at an average to a moderately high level of development. Likewise, an average to a moderately high level of the contribution of English language instruction was noted. These findings indicate that there is much room for improvement and can be informative for various stakeholders in the education process. On the one hand, the study has revealed that the language courses have a favourable impact on soft skills development, and on the other, it has produced a relatively good representation of the enhancements to be made in this regard. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2aad8b378a954838894b848542819e962022-12-22T03:27:53ZengFaculty of Philosophy, Kosovska MitrovicaZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini0354-32932217-80822022-01-015238710410.5937/zrffp52-285470354-32932203087REducation for employability in the health tourism industry: A contribution of English language courses to soft skills developmentRadovanović Aleksandra M.0Mitrović Aleksandra B.1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8302-0853Univerzitet u Kragujevcu, Fakultet za hotelijerstvo i turizam, Vrnjačka Banja, SerbiaUniverzitet u Kragujevcu, Fakultet za hotelijerstvo i turizam, Vrnjačka Banja, SerbiaAlong with the growing demands on the tourism and hospitality market, soft skills have been increasingly stated as the main prerequisites for employability. Therefore, this study set out to investigate the health tourism students' perceptions of the soft skills they possess with an emphasis on the contribution of English language courses to their development. The data were collected employing the tailor-made questionnaire which addressed 12 soft skills deemed the most necessary for the inclusion in the (health) tourism labour market. Students perceived their soft skills to be at an average to a moderately high level of development. Likewise, an average to a moderately high level of the contribution of English language instruction was noted. These findings indicate that there is much room for improvement and can be informative for various stakeholders in the education process. On the one hand, the study has revealed that the language courses have a favourable impact on soft skills development, and on the other, it has produced a relatively good representation of the enhancements to be made in this regard.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0354-3293/2022/0354-32932203087R.pdfsoft skillsthe health tourism industryenglish for health tourismemployability |
| spellingShingle | Radovanović Aleksandra M. Mitrović Aleksandra B. Education for employability in the health tourism industry: A contribution of English language courses to soft skills development Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini soft skills the health tourism industry english for health tourism employability |
| title | Education for employability in the health tourism industry: A contribution of English language courses to soft skills development |
| title_full | Education for employability in the health tourism industry: A contribution of English language courses to soft skills development |
| title_fullStr | Education for employability in the health tourism industry: A contribution of English language courses to soft skills development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Education for employability in the health tourism industry: A contribution of English language courses to soft skills development |
| title_short | Education for employability in the health tourism industry: A contribution of English language courses to soft skills development |
| title_sort | education for employability in the health tourism industry a contribution of english language courses to soft skills development |
| topic | soft skills the health tourism industry english for health tourism employability |
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