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- Title
English for Specific Purpose vs. English for General Purpose.
- Authors
Pandey, Ashish Kumar
- Abstract
The present research article is based on a need analysis of the engineering students. The study finds that many Indian engineering graduates experience several difficulties during their jobs due to their inadequate communication skills and they are deficient in confidence. Hence, it becomes inevitable that these students should be properly trained in all the four basic skills of language, namely Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing (LSRW). Further the study also concludes that, how awareness of the importance of communication skills during and after their graduation is helping the students. Condescending approach towards English is a result of engineering students taking English only as general purpose (EGP), not as a specific purpose (ESP) language, while the trainer can usually differentiate EGP with ESP. In this research paper, researcher discusses the actual situation of Indian Engineering graduates about their English communication. Researcher randomly selected three colleges. The number of students selected from these three colleges for the study is 540. Data was collected by using two different methods: semi-structured interviews and through the questionnaire filled personally by the students.
- Subjects
COMMUNICATIVE competence; ENGLISH language education in universities &; colleges; ENGINEERING students; GRAMMAR; WRITING ability testing
- Publication
Language in India, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 12, p377
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article