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- Title
Effective Material to Teach Communication Skills and Soft Skills to the Engineering Students – A Classroom Try Out.
- Authors
Sasirekha, K.; Jayalakshmi, G.
- Abstract
This paper illustrates the following objectives: • Need of communication skills and soft skills to engineering students/engineers • Role of material & Choice of material • Effectiveness of English Literature to engineering students. • Relevant literature is a right choice to develop communicational skills and soft skills. • Teaching of English Literature to engineering students – a classroom experience. Teaching materials and methodology are indispensable in any course; engineering English as Technical English I & II is not an exception. Lessons prescribed in the prescribed textbooks by Anna University in Mindscapes (2013) or the earlier English for Engineers & Technologists are not used by the English teachers in engineering colleges for various reasons. This paper tries to illustrate how the lessons can be more human interest centered with a variety of functional language activities. ELT and its emerging trends allow facilitators to choose any relevant material from anywhere to ensure the teaching-learning process. Computer and the internet provide a rich array of English language teaching materials. One such human interest centered material is Story of Narayana Murthy (Infosys Founder) and Sudha (From Sudha's Autobiography) and the multiple activities tried in the classroom by the teacher were explicated in the paper.
- Subjects
COMMUNICATION education; ENGINEERING students; ENGLISH literature education; CLASSROOM management; TEACHING aids
- Publication
Language in India, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 4, p101
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article