Improving International Working Language of Academicians: Mentor - Mentees’ Reflections

AbstractThe emergence of mentoring as a professional development strategy has not been given due attention in the context of enhancing English Language competence amongst academicians who are non native speakers. This paper focuses on the intervention method adopted in an action research to pilot an investigation the effectiveness of mentoring system as a strategy to enhance the competency of lecturers involved in this project. All mentees and mentors are asked to write a reflection of the programme focussing on the three main components that comprise of i) meet up session ii) e-mentor iii) emails. This paper puts forth the reflections of a sampled of mentor-mentees’ reflection whose reflections are analysed based on a content analysis approach. The responses are thematically coded and categorised. The mentor-mentees’ reflections on the approach are analysed to investigate the effects of such an intervention for this action research