| Summary: | The use of English language becomes increasingly important, either in educational sector or
working sector.The role of social capital should be taken into consideration in helping the
students to achieve their academic success. Previous findings indicated that students with
limited use of English faced problems in advance subjects.Thus, this study examines the effect
of English language proficiency towards social capital and academic achievement.This study
employed the survey research design and the sample comprised of 81 undergraduate students
enrolled in Economics courses from year two and three in Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM).
The instruments were adapted based on the constructs in the structural model developed.The
data has been analysed using Structural Equation Modelling to enable simultaneous analysis
of all the constructs and estimate the magnitude of the direct and indirect effects between
the constructs.The findings show that there is a significant direct effect of English Language
Proficiency (ELP) towards Academic Achievements (AA) and Social Capital Outside Family (SCOF), and from social capital outside family towards academic achievements.The mediating effect of social capital outside family towards English Language Proficiency (ELP) and Academic Achievement (AA) among economics students in UUM was significant.The findings suggest for more activities geared towards increasing students’ English language proficiency to help them to increase their academic achievements.
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