METHODOLOGY
This study is descriptive and non-experimental. The data of the study were collected through a questionnaire survey administered to a sample of three hundred UPM undergraduates. The sample was selected through “multistage cluster sampling”. The questionnaire comprised three parts: Part I-the demographic profile of the respondents; Part II-level of proficiency in languages; and Part III-patterns of language choice and use in the education domain. The questionnaire was prepared by the researchers who adapted items from instruments of previous studies (e.g. Hsi-nan Yeh et al., 2004; Hohenthal, 1998). The items were modified to suit the objectives of this research. A pilot survey was conducted to study the feasibility of the instrument. A reliability index of 0.74 (Part II) and 0.84 (Part III) were obtained (Cronbach Alpha). The overall reliability was thus 0.79. This is deemed an acceptable figure for the research instrument. Upon the completion of the data collection, these were coded, classified and tabulated for computation and analysis. Seventy two questionnaires were found to be incomplete and therefore were excluded from the final analysis. The analysis was carried out using SPSS to obtain percentage values, frequencies and correlations among the variables.