Lampiran 7 Enhancing English Proficiency Among UniMAP Foreign Students through the use of Computer - Aided Instruction By Sharmini Abdullah (sharmini @unimap.edu.my) Rozilawati Mahadi (rozilawati@unimap.edu.my ) Ahmad Hifzurrahman (hifzurrahman@unimap.edu.my) Ropidah Ahmad (ropidah @unimap.edu.my) Centre for Communication and Entrepreneurship Skills UniMAP ABSTRACT Numerous studies and publications have shown that using Computer Aided Instruction in the form of educational software and courseware especially in the teaching and learning of English Language is able to maximise the performance and proficiency of second and foreign language learners - “Computers indisputably can make a worthwhile contribution to the teaching of English as a second or foreign language”, (Wyatt D.H. 1984:4). In the case of UniMAP, recently about 31 foreign students from China registered for the Intensive English Course offered by the UniMap English Unit. Now, these students have no exposure to the English Language and can converse only in Mandarin. So, the teaching instructors were having a hard time teaching these students and vice-versa. In the attempt, to make teaching and learning less stressful and time-consuming, these students were introduced to Computer-Aided Instruction in the form of English teaching learning courseware to help them build their proficiency levels and also to ease the teaching difficulties the instructors were undergoing. The courseware used are ELLIS and DYNED. This study investigates the effectiveness of using the purchased courseware to teach English to the China students. Does the courseware help these foreign learners to learn English more effectively? This paper attempts to report and present the Effectiveness of the English Courseware – DYNED in enhancing the English Language proficiency levels to the China students. The methods used were survey – questionnaires, test results and interview. It was found that the frequency of English courseware usage among the foreign students were considerably high during the duration of the piloted study. Results of the English tests that these students sat on a monthly basis also improved tremendously. In other words, the courseware does help these foreign English language learners improve their proficiency levels. 1