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ENGLISH ABILITY A CONCERN FOR MOST TAIWAN OFFICE WORKERS: POLL.

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TAIPEI, June 2 Asia Pulse - Seventy-five per cent of local office workers in Taiwan believe their English ability is poor and nearly half of them have failed to improve it, according to the results of a poll released by a local online human resources agency Sunday.

Another 32 per cent of poll respondents said they had lost ideal job opportunities or had not received raises because their English was not of a high enough standard, 1111 Job Bank said in a statement.

Most of the office workers responding to the recent poll said they understand how having good English skills could help their careers, the poll said.

Nevertheless, nearly 50 per cent of the respondents simply "worried about their poor English" without taking any initiative to solve the problem, the poll found.

The respondents attributed the failure to their busy schedules, the inability to afford English-learning classes, the fear of not being able to learn the language well and laziness, the poll showed.

People who serve in low-ranking administrative positions often think they will not have the ...

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