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English Language Teaching; Vol. 5, No. 11; 2012 ISSN 1916-4742 E-ISSN 1916-4750 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education

The Effect of an Intensive English Program on Malaysian Secondary School Students’ Language Proficiency Jayakaran Mukundan1, Elaheh Hamed Mahvelati1 & Vahid Nimehchisalem1 1

Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Correspondence: Jayakaran Mukundan, Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia. Tel: 60-122-099-717. E-mail: [email protected] Received: August 11, 2012 doi:10.5539/elt.v5n11p1

Accepted: August 23, 2012

Online Published: September 6, 2012

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v5n11p1

Abstract Intensive English programs are courses in which students participate in a higher number of classes in a shorter period. The available literature on intensive English courses indicates inconsistent results necessitating further research in this area. This study investigated the effect of an intensive English program on a group of Malaysian Secondary School students (n=30) following a single group quasi-experimental design. Paired samples t-test was used to analyze the students’ scores before and after the treatment that lasted four weeks. The results indicated that the students scored significantly higher (p= .000