Civil Engg (original) (raw)
Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2014
Scientists and engineers may be technically brilliant and creative, but unless they have communicative skills, their technical skills will be unnoticed. Today's engineer has to communicate with more number of his/her counterparts across the globe and has to travel to many continents and work away from their home country. So developing communication skills has become the need of the hour. “Engineering English” has been growing its prominence everywhere and the professional students of science and technology need to acquire these skills according to the global demands of the present century. As a result many technical universities have introduced English Language Communication Skills Laboratory in its curriculum. It acts as a platform for learning, practicing and producing language skills through interactive lessons. The present paper, in this context, highlights the importance, objectives and syllabus of English communication lab. Besides, the paper expressed a few barriers and s...
Using Communication Skills Laboratory in Enhancing Speaking Skills of Engineering Students
In language learning speaking is considered to be one of the important skills. It is important because through this skill we convey thoughts, information and share ideas with others .The students in the Engineering and technology colleges find it hard to practice it, because most of the students were from rural and Tamil medium background. In this age of technology many students are expected to speak in English to get a good job but they find it hard because they do not have adequate speaking skills. There are many factors which affects them to develop the skill.The study was undertaken to help students of third year Electronics Communication Engineering course to develop better speaking skill. The main objective was to know the effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Language Learning in the development of communication skills in English. The findings show that computer assisted language learning is helpful in developing speaking skills.
Training in Essential Communicative Situations to Engineering Students
Engineering graduates require high efficiency in English communication skills to maintain relevance with the global environment of the new millennium. Effective communication with various stakeholders within and outside an organization is a key factor for a business organization to run smoothly and successfully. Now-a-days, along with these things, effective communication skills (generally called 'soft skills') have acquired greater importance to sustain the professional growth of an individual and an organization. Hence training to develop communication skills of engineering students is the need of time. Engineers require training in those communicative situations in which use of English is must in corporate world. So the aim of the paper is to find essential communicative situations in corporate world. A questionnaire consisting important communicative situations for engineers was prepared for in service engineers to find out real communicative situations essential when an engineer takes up a job. The result showed that reading written instructions, writing emails, writing report, writing business letters, facing interviews, delivering public speeches, and giving oral presentations are very important situations for in-service engineers.
Enhancing the oral communicative competence of engineering students
2018
The overall aim of this paper is a survey of the attitudes of engineering students towards oral communication in the English class and what factors may contribute to their activity in doing oral exercises. Oral communication turns out to be an important part of English teaching because it allows for practicing the language and enhancing students’ oral skills. Some of the factors that influence this process are the positive and encouraging atmosphere in the classroom, the meaningful assignments, and the working in small groups, which motivate the learners to be more active in the speaking activities. Most students are convinced that oral communication helps them speak English fluently, which will be useful for their future professional development. Therefore, oral communicative competence should be the central aim of language teaching.
Developing the speaking skills of students through CLIL
Proceedings of The 5th Electronic International Interdisciplinary Conference, 2016
This paper aims attempt the development of speaking skills in through technology in first year Engineering students. Teacher education refers to the policies and procedures designed to equip prospective teachers with knowledge, attitudes, behaviors' and skills they require to perform their tasks effectively in the classroom, school and wider community. Speaking is described in applied linguistics. It covers linguistic description of spoken language, speaking as interaction, and speaking as a social and situationbased activity. In fact, speaking is an integral part of one's life. When people hear someone speak, they pay attention to what the speaker sounds like almost automatically. On the basis of what they hear, they make some tentative and possibly subconscious judgements about the speaker's personality, attitudes, and so on. By using speed and pausing, and variations in pitch, volume and information, they also create a texture for their talk that supports and enhances what they are saying.
TEACHING ENGLISH FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS A CHALLENGING TASK
This paper " Teaching English for Engineering Students a Challenging Task " , deals with designing, analyzing and executing the syllabus for a professional group of students keeping in view their career. Most of the affiliated colleges need to stick on to the syllabus of their respective Universities. The General English that the students learn at the first year of B.Tech seems to be inadequate in sufficing the needs of the students as employees. Hence many of the non-autonomous Professional colleges opt for the co-curricular activities to improve the skills of the students. The syllabus that is meant for such students should be a comprehensive one focusing on improving their communicative Efficiency by integrating LSRW skills. Apart from this, the major concern is to increase the employability skills of the students. So the verbal ability of the students has to be improved along with their communicative efficiency. Verbal ability coupled with communicative efficiency yields fruitful results. Thus the paper discusses the needs of the targeted students, the syllabus to be taught, and the challenges that are faced in executing it.
Strategies for developing communicative competence of engineering students
In the tough competitive world today, much of the success depends upon the communicative competence of the professionals. Apart from technical skills, communicative skills also carry an equal importance. In today’s world, where the students would be competing for job positions with a global workforce, it would be their English language proficiency that would be tested to the maximum, as English is the most widely spoken language. Thus, engineers need to communicate with his counterparts across the globe, work in different countries, and with people from diverse backgrounds. Language learning is basically a skill based learning and technical institutions need to train up its students in the skills that would help them build up a career in the corporate world. However, English is approached casually in most of the engineering colleges and therefore, the course is yet to achieve the targeted goals of developing communicative competence among the engineering students. To this end, the c...
2013
Overview Communication is by definition a two-sided process. A message cannot be communicated unless there is someone to receive it. A student is placed in various situations in his/her daily life where s/he has to respond to many spoken messages. Therefore as teachers of English, our interest is to train students to understand and respond to the realisation of these forms in communication. LISTENING As you know, speaking is a productive skill and listening is a receptive rather than a productive skill, but it is an equally important skill. Most learners spend considerable more time in listening to the foreign language than in producing it themselves. It is not only that they must understand what is aid to them during face-to-face interaction, there is a vast range of situations where they will be the silent receivers of messages directed at them. And in such situations they cannot normally exercise any
COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION
International Journal Literary Endeavour , 2021
Communication skills have to be considered as a vital aspect in the education field. Most of the students are lacking communication skills so that they should be given special training for their future achievement in education and career. h is difficull for engineering students to learn English for Science and Technology (EST). The main reason for this paper is that the teaching of English is not focused on imparting communication skills to the students and it is treated as a content-oriented subject and not a skill-based language. The study aims at presenting the importance of teaching-learning, diferent strategies of language learning and reviewing a suitable approach to find out the language needs of the students to test their basic understanding. Many approaches have discussed and communicative approach is suggested for engineering education. It also discussed the basic needs of English communication in globalised development. The methodology used in ESThas therefore consolidated the notion of a linguistie community within scientific disciplines and emphasized vocabulary as well as the kinds of tasks normally required in the fields. In the conclusion given some implications such as students should be motivated, provided an opportunity and encouraged to participate in the skill-hased activities or tasks.
Communication refers to the exchange of thoughts and ideas with the intention of conveying information. In the 21 st century, acquiring basic skills in communication has become essential for personal and professional growth and success. Hence, a student of science and technology cannot afford to ignore communication basics. In the globalize context, students of Engineering and Technology need a specific set of language skills for their success both in education and career. Effective communication skills are indispensable to move up on the corporate ladder. Having this in mind, the English language teacher has to play an important role by taking a responsibility to help the students in developing their communication skills. This paper attempts to highlight the vital role of the English language teacher in developing the required communication skills among the students of Engineering and Technology.
Role and Importance of Communication Competence for Engineering Students
RJOE, 2021
Till date, the notion of communicative competence for the development of engineering professionals is considered "fuzzy". An understanding and learning of technical aspects in engineering syllabus are given utmost importance compared to development of communication skills and proficiency. And hence, in present day competitive world, much of the success is based on communicative competence of the students, where in they would be competing for job positions with global force, it will be their English Language Proficiency that would be tested to maximum, since English has been given the throne of global language. With all these given factors, engineers need to communicate with its colleagues from diverse backgrounds and work in different counties across the globe. Language acquisition is essentially a skill-based learning experience, and technical colleges must prepare their students in the skills that will enable them to advance in the corporate sector. However, English is treated lightly in most engineering institutions, and as a result, the course has yet to meet its intended objectives of increasing communicative competence among students. The concept of ESP (English for Specific Purpose) can be utilized as a tool to help students improve their communicative skills. By focusing on the learner's motivation for learning, ESP can assist in the development of content and teaching techniques that are suited for technical students. Language teachers must engage students in interactive teaching techniques such as allowing them to deal with real-life situations, requiring them to give presentations, dramatize situations, hold group discussions, or complete collaborative assignments, as well as moving away from the traditional lecture-based method and toward more student-centered activities. ESP, or extrasensory perception, is a concept that has been around for a long time. As language learning is a skill-oriented activity that necessitates a completely distinct pedagogic approach, the concept of ESP can be considered acceptable for teaching English to engineering students. As a result, the goal of this research is to underline and highlight the strategic function of ESP in English Language Teaching in order to assist students in learning English.
Scaffolding the Development of English Language and Communication Skills of Engineering Students
Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Teaching English in higher institutions is becoming more challenging in this globalised era. With the demand for communication skills in English as one of the important recruitment criteria, future graduates need to be equipped with sufficient English language and communication abilities relevant for their respective fields. This suggests that English language educators need to teach specialised English language such as engineering which may be beyond their expertise. Having trained as English as a second language educators, most of them may have limited knowledge in engineering. This paper is part of a larger research that explores the development of cross-disciplinary curriculum. This study examined the extent to which English language educators addressed the language needs of engineering students academically and professionally. A total of ten language educators from two Malaysian public universities participated in a focus group where they discussed their teaching practices and experiences in teaching engineering students. In addition, six English for Specific Purposes (ESP) practitioners from European universities were also interviewed to obtain information regarding the practices in teaching ESP at their universities. The results show that there is a gap between the development of engineering students' English language abilities in English language classrooms and its maintenance in engineering classrooms in Malaysia. The study highlights the key considerations to develop a framework that scaffolds the development of English language abilities and communication skills among engineering students within engineering education.