In this study, the literacy skills, language choices and issues of multilingual undergraduate students in data analysis for their bachelor thesis will be a main research goal. The language environment in Malaysia is enrich with multilingual and multicultural information, this situation has raised some challenges for the Malaysian undergraduate students while analysing research data derived from various local languages and dialects. The literacy problems have been identified by this study are included: 1) The sound origins of Chinese dialects and its cultural meanings cannot be identified; 2) The language data are collected from the loanwords and cultural terms from other languages or dialects which are not familiar to the Malaysian undergraduate students; 3)Different literacy skills are required to comprehend multilingual information found in the multicultural contexts; 4) Language choices adopted by the undergraduate students to conduct data analysis should include the language information that they are not familiar. The development of literacy skills for the purpose of bachelor research study should be developed based on the discussion from this study. This study adopts qualitative research method such as fieldwork to collect data related to the multilingual and multicultural environment in Malaysia, based on the data analysis of the bachelor students investigated their research problems in analysing the research data that they have used to produce their bachelor thesis. Suggestions to create some useful literacy skills to assist the bachelor students in comprehending various languages data are the expected outcomes of this research.

Authors:
Ling Yann Wong, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

About the Presenter(s)
Dr Wong Ling Yann is a senior lecturer who teaches Chinese language at the Department of Foreign languages, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Her general interests is teaching Chinese as a second language. My current project is Chinese Reading.

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